Wigmaking social media influencer Miriam Yarimi is expected to make her first in-person appearance in court Wednesday after police say she mowed down a mother and her two young children in a Brooklyn crosswalk.
Yarimi told cops she had the “devil in my eyes” when she slammed into Natasha Saada, 35, and her three young children as they crossed Ocean Parkway March 29.
Saada died of her injuries, as did her two daughters, Deborah, 5, and Diana, 8. Saada’s 4-year-old son was critically hurt.
Yarimi appeared virtually in Brooklyn Criminal Court April 3 via a video stream from her hospital room at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, where she was being held for psychological evaluation.
She’s expected to appear Wednesday before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun Wednesday after her indictment on manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, assault and other charges.
Yarimi had a suspended license when she got behind the wheel of her car, an Audi A3 with a vanity plate reading “WIGM8KER,” a reference to her wig making business, the afternoon of March 29, cops said.
She was going north on Ocean Parkway, driving twice the speed limit, police sources said, when she sped through a red light, crashed into a Toyota Camry Uber and hit Saada, 35, and children. Yarimi’s car flipped upside down in the crash.
“The devil is in my eyes. I am haunted inside. I didn’t kill anyone. I didn’t hurt anyone. Prove it. Show me the proof. You have no proof,” she told police after the crash, according to filings by prosecutors. “I was raped by cops when I was 14. I need CT scans in my eyes. I need to get the scanning done now …. Where’s my daughter? My daughter’s always in my heart… . I need to use the bathroom. I don’t want to pee in the pan.”
Her remarks about being raped by cops refers to her allegations in a 2023 lawsuit that an NYPD officer groomed and raped her throughout her teenage years after she was arrested for shoplifting. The city settled her suit for $2 million in December.