New York Post

Nanny-jury ‘stress’

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Five people have been selected to serve at jurors for the trial of the nanny accused of butchering two children in an Upper West Side bathtub — with one of the women nearly breaking down after she was impaneled Tuesday.

“I feel forced,” the woman said, her voice shaking, after she was seated on Yoselyn Ortega’s case, which is expected to last as long as four months.

Ortega, 56, is accused of hacking to death Lucia Krim, 6, and Leo Krim, 2, in 2012.

“How do you feel forced?” visibly irate Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Gregory Carro, who has questioned hundreds of prospectiv­e jurors since Feb. 5, asked incredulou­sly.

“I feel very stressed out . . . through this process,” the woman responded while on the verge of tears — leading multiple prospectiv­e jurors to snicker.

Carro, turning to the gallery, used the juror to warn others not to “sit here and roll the dice. Sometimes it comes up snake-eyed.”

Other potential jurors said the case was too close to home — “I’ve had kids raised by nannies” — while another claimed that his Catholicis­m prevented him from sitting in judgment of others.

Defense attorney Valerie Van Leer-Greenberg admitted Tuesday that the case is “about two beautiful, little kids that were killed. Horribly killed.”

If convicted of the top count, Ortega faces life behind bars.

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