DA: Crying made nanny want to kill

A disgruntled Manhattan nanny “methodically” fashioned a large baby wipe into a ball to plug the airway of a 2month-old because she couldn’t deal with his cries, prosecutors argued at the end of the caregiver’s trial Monday.

“He was crying all the time, and the defendant had had it,” Assistant District Attorney Nicole Blumberg said in summations at the attempted murder trial of 47-year-old Marianne Benjamin-Williams.

Blumberg also argued that the bad baby-sitter’s abuse was the root of little Maxwell Blutreich’s incessant wailing at his family’s Waterside Plaza apartment, where BenjaminWilliams had spent only about two weeks alone with the tot and his 14-month-old sister.

When doctors extracted the bloodied folded up 8-by-4 inch moist cloth from his minuscule windpipe on May 18, 2017, they also discovered his arm was fractured.

Benjamin-Williams “internationally and forcefully pushed that wipe down Max’s throat ... nearly killing him,” Blumberg argued.

She shot down the defense claim that it could have been accidental or the result of meddling by his 14-month-old sister, who was too young to walk at the time of the near-tragedy.

A defense expert testified that the wipe could have been inadvertently “sucked” in by Maxwell — which prosecutors say is impossible.

The suspect’s lawyer, Raymond Loving, pointed to text messages between BenjaminWilliams and Maxwell’s mom the day of the event.

They casually chat about the kids and news events right up until about a half hour prior to the frantic call the nanny made to Meredith Sondler-Bazar instructing her to call 911 urgently.

“The prosecution will probably argue that Marianne snapped …. Well, then she did a remarkable job of hiding her frustration that day in the texts she exchanged with Meredith,” Loving said.

“The fact is she cared deeply for those children .... The idea that she tried to kill or harm Max because she was upset at his crying is absurd,” he added.

The jury began deliberating late Monday afternoon and is expected to resume Tuesday morning.