Reuters: U.S.: Two children stabbed to death in New York City apartment, nanny arrested

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Two children stabbed to death in New York City apartment, nanny arrested Oct 26th 2012, 01:20 By Chris Francescani NEW YORK | Thu Oct 25, 2012 8:31pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - A mother returned home to her New York City apartment on Thursday to find two of her young children stabbed to death in the bathtub, and the family's nanny was arrested as the suspect in the killings, police said. The mother discovered the bodies of the little boy and girl at about 5:30 p.m., according to New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne. The boy was believed to be 1 or 2 years old and the girl about 6 years old, he said. They had suffered "multiple stab wounds," he said. The nanny was lying on the bathroom floor with self-inflicted wounds to her neck, and a bloody kitchen knife was on the floor nearby, police said. The nanny, who was unidentified, was taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition and was under arrest, police said. She was not expected to live, according to The New York Times. The stabbings took place in a luxury high-rise apartment building at 57 West 75th Street, near Central Park, on Manhattan's Upper West Side, police said. The mother, 38, had returned home with a third child. A neighbor heard the mother's screams and called 911, police said. A neighbor quoted in The New York Times said she could hear "bloodcurdling screams" from a woman in the apartment. She said she also could hear the building's superintendent, who had arrived on the scene, yelling: "You slit her throat! You slit her throat!" The father of the children is a television executive. Neighbors said the mother was a doctor. (Additional reporting by Jonathan Allen; Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and Eric Walsh) Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints

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