Wig-making influencer Miriam Yarimi makes first court appearance, ‘haunted inside’ after fatal Brooklyn crash

Wig-making societal media influencer Miriam Yarimi denied sidesplitting anyone and said she was “haunted inside” aft mowing down a parent and her 2 young children successful a Brooklyn crosswalk, prosecutors said Thursday during her archetypal tribunal appearance.

Yarimi, 32, has been held for intelligence valuation astatine NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn since the horrific Saturday day crash. She appeared via video watercourse from her infirmary country successful Brooklyn Criminal Court dressed successful a yellowish infirmary gown arsenic she sat alongside her lawyer to look aggregate counts of manslaughter, battle and different offenses. She was ordered held without bail.

“The devil is successful my eyes. I americium haunted inside. I didn’t termination anyone. I didn’t wounded anyone. Prove it. Show maine the proof. You person nary proof,” Yarimi said successful a connection aft the crash, Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Nocella said. “I was raped by cops erstwhile I was 14. I request CT scans successful my eyes. I request to get the scanning done now…. Where’s my daughter? My daughter’s ever successful my heart…. I request to usage the bathroom. I don’t privation to pee successful the pan.”

Yarimi had a suspended licence erstwhile she got down the instrumentality of her car, an Audi A3 with a vanity sheet speechmaking “WIGM8KER,” a notation to her wig making business, astir 1 p.m. Saturday, cops said.

She was going northbound connected Ocean Parkway, driving doubly the velocity limit, constabulary sources said, erstwhile she sped done a reddish light, crashed into a Toyota Camry with TLC plates and deed Natasha Saada, 35, and her 3 young children arsenic they crossed Ocean Parkway. Yarimi’s car flipped upside down successful the crash.

Saada died of her injuries, arsenic did her 2 daughters, Deborah, 5, and Diana, 8. Saada’s 4-year-old lad was critically hurt.

After the crash, Yarimi told Hatzalah medics she was possessed and claimed the CIA had been pursuing her, according to instrumentality enforcement sources.

Her remarks astir being raped by cops refers to the allegations successful a suit she filed successful 2023 that a constabulary serviceman groomed and raped her passim her teenage years aft she was arrested for shoplifting. The metropolis settled her suit for $2 cardinal successful December.