‘Eyes of the devil’

Witness’ shock at ‘tot-killer’ nanny

The Upper West Side nanny on trial for the murder of two young children had the “eyes of the devil” after the 2012 horror, according to testimony Monday that included harrowing details and photos of the tots’ gruesome injuries.

The 12 jurors hearing the case against nanny Yoselyn Ortega (inset, at court) were visibly disturbed as Detective Brian Glacken of the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit testified that by the time he arrived that day, Lucia Krim, 6, and brother Leo, 2, were already gone.

“The children were covered with blood. The color of the children was very pale,” Glacken said in Manhattan Supreme Court.

Prosecutors said Leo suffered five stab wounds while Lucia, who tried to fight back, sustained as many as 30 wounds in the Oct. 25, 2012, attack.

“When I turned his neck to check for a pulse, I saw the child was partially decapitated,” Glacken said of Leo. “When I went to check the pulse of the girl, it was basically the same thing. Her injury was straight down to the spine.”

Paramedic Kevin Orr said the scene at 57 W. 75th St. — where the children were left to bleed out in the bathtub — was “probably the most horrendous scene in my 27 years of saving lives.”

“I cleared the stretcher because we needed to move these patients. We needed to move. The kids needed surgeons, not me,” he said.

When Marina Krim and her then-3-year-old daughter, Nessie, came home to the carnage, the mom’s screams were so loud, they could be heard in building super Michael Minihan’s apartment directly below, he testified.

Minihan said he rushed upstairs and found Ortega “gurgling” in the bathroom, holding a bloody white towel to her neck.

“I didn’t freak out,” he said. “You’ve got to understand, I opened the door and I see somebody staring with the eyes of the devil holding a rag to her face. Her eyes were bugging. She’s staring right at me.”

He ran out of the apartment and blocked the door so Ortega couldn’t leave, and told Detective Brandon Gore, the f irst cop at the scene, “Whatever is in there is evil.”

Jurors looked ashen as they saw a photo showing the lifeless, bloodied bodies of Lucia and Leo.

One woman on the panel bit her lower lip as tears trickled down her face and a male juror put his head down and looked at his hands after passing the photos along.