NYC nanny pleads not guilty in child deaths

NEW YORK (AP) — A nanny accused in the stabbing deaths of two children in her care at their upscale Manhattan home pleaded not guilty today inside a hospital room where she's been treated for self-inflicted stab wounds.

Yoselyn Ortega — lying handcuffed in her hospital bed in silence, her right hand trembling — entered the plea through her defense attorney.

"I ask you to enter a not guilty plea on behalf of my client," said the lawyer, Valerie Van Leer-Greenberg.

Van Leer-Greenberg also told Judge Lewis Bart Stone that her client remains "profoundly, medically impaired and in need of medical attention."

Judge Stone ordered Ortega held without bail while she undergoes psychiatric exam. The judge, like two prosecutors and everyone else crowded into the room, wore a hospital gown.

Ortega, 50, appeared alert but didn't speak during the 10-minute hearing.