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Friends say nanny was 'lovable,' religious

Nanny Yoselyn Ortega is shown holding Lucia Krim,

Photo credit: Krim family blog | Nanny Yoselyn Ortega is shown holding Lucia Krim, 6, in February. Police believe Ortega killed Lucia and Leo Krim before attempting to kill herself in the family's Upper West Side apartment in Manhattan on Oct. 25, 2012. The child obscured at left, Nessie, was not home at the time.

Nanny Yoselyn Ortega was known as a religious woman whose skills with children helped the Dominican Republic immigrant survive in her new country.

Ortega, who became a U.S. citizen, has lived with her son, 16, her sister and a niece in a Riverside Drive apartment building in Manhattan, where neighbors noted her devotion to the Catholic faith.

She once taught catechism at her church,...

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