Sentenced: Mom Smiles At Disabled Daughter In Last Photo ‘Before Giving Her A Fatal Dose Of Ketamine’

[Sugar Cookie]

A 33-year-old mother in Greece was pictured smiling at her disabled daughter in the last photo taken of the pair before 'giving her a fatal dose of Ketamine'.

Roula Pispirigou was charged with killing her nine-year-old daughter Georgina after a test of her muscle tissue revealed the presence of the anesthetic drug, which had not been administered by doctors.

Georgina - who suffered from seizures in April 2021 that left her tetraplegic - died in January after spending eight months in hospital and nurses later confirmed that Pispirigou was alone with her daughter in the moments leading up to her death.

Pispirigou, flanked by riot police and wearing handcuffs and a protective vest, appeared in court in Athens last week for her arraignment in front of a crowd of onlookers and journalists.

She was charged with killing her daughter and has been jailed in high-security Korydallos prison in Athens until her trial date, which is yet to be agreed. She has denied any wrongdoing.

Meanwhile, tissue samples retained from Pispirigou's two other children are now being re-examined as part of a review into their deaths: Three-year-old Malena from liver failure in 2019 and six-month-old Iris in 2021 from a suspected heart defect.

Forensic Pathologist and President of the Forensics Union in Greece, Grigoris Leon, told local news station, Syndeseis, that the exhumation of her other children confirmed 'criminal acts were the cause of death'.

He said: 'There is absolutely no doubt that it is a criminal act. 'We had two initial reports (when the children died) that show the pathological cause of death. The first shows liver deficiency and the second heart malformation in the aorta as well as pulmonary embolism', reports the Greek City Times.

'As you can understand, pathological causes do not go along with findings pointing towards criminal acts which is why reevaluations are being made by my colleagues.

'Essentially, here the old causes of death will have to be overturned and this is the only way we can be led to the truth and be able to find justice. Until the cause of death officially changes on the report we obviously can’t continue the conversation.'

A computer tablet that was buried with Georgina was retrieved on Saturday morning, following an order by the magistrate investigating the case because it could provide further evidence.

Mother, 33, smiles at her disabled daughter in last photo before giving her a fatal dose of Ketamine as it emerges she also murdered her 2 other girls

Mother, 33, smiles at her disabled daughter in last photo ‘before giving her a fatal dose of Ketamine’ as it emerges the deaths of her two OTHER girls were 'criminal acts' Roula Pispirigou charged with killing her nine-year-old daughter with ketamine Mother, 33, under investigation over deaths...

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[Satanica]

I wonder if those seizures that caused Georgina to be tetraplegic were also caused by her mother.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Georgina

 

[Sugar Cookie]

The suspicious deaths of three girls from the same family in just three years has shocked Greek society over the past few months. But what started as a tragic story of an ill-fated young family soon turned out to be one of the most horrible cases of alleged murder the country has seen in recent years.

After months of speculation, Roula Pispirigkou, the 33-year-old mother of the family was charged with killing all three of her daughters, one of whom had survived childhood cancer.

She allegedly suffocated her two younger children, and then police believe she killed her older daughter Georgina by allegedly giving her a fatal dose of Ketamine—originally an anesthetic drug usually used by veterinarians on animals.

Cops re-examined the deaths of the two youngest kids once they saw evidence that the eldest child was murdered.

Pispirigkou is also charged with attempting to murder Georgina months before she finally died, in an alleged attack which left her quadriplegic.

According to the prosecutors Antonis Eleftherianos and Apostolos Andreou, who have taken under consideration several testimonies of doctors, nurses and members of the family, she is charged with what they call locally: the serial crime of intentional homicide in a calm state of mind.

Last April, a test of the eldest daughter’s muscle tissue revealed that the 9-year-old, who was hospitalized in a child’s hospital in Athens as quadriplegic last January, had been given around 6.5 mg per liter of blood of the drug, which had not been prescribed to her by her doctors.

Immediately after that, investigations into the deaths of her two younger daughters were opened. Three-year-old Malena who survived a rare form of cancer—cervical lymphadenitis of the right jaw—was initially thought to have died of liver failure in April 2019. Iris, who was 6 months old, was originally believed to have succumbed to a heart defect in March 2021.

In late June, two new medical examiners, Nikolaos Karakoukis and Nikolaos Kalogrias, delivered their results to the Greek homicide department, stating that they are certain the younger girls were murdered and had not died of pathological causes.

Pispirigkou, who has been given the nickname of “modern Medea” by Greek media and social platforms, has already been jailed over the death of her eldest daughter since early April in the high-security Korydallos prison near Athens, where she has been placed in pre-trial detention.

Through it all, Pispirigkou has denied the accusations against her. According to one of her two lawyers, Konstantinos Zardas, “she is devastated and cannot believe what’s happening.” She has asked for a third round of genetic testing to be done on her children—the first two didn’t show any signs of genetic malfunction.

For weeks before the arrest, Pispirigkou and her husband Manos Daskalakis had been in the spotlight, constantly giving interviews and talking with local journalists about the death of their children. “In laboratories abroad they are looking for the most rare genes [that caused the deaths] and from what they have told us they might never find them” the mother said in the couple's very first interview for STAR TV about a month and a half after Georgina’s death. “We want an answer about what happened with our children,” Daskalakis said in the same interview.

Since the arrest, however, the couple has become estranged and Daskalakis is now supporting the case against his wife.“The evidence is incontrovertible. The evidence against Roula is too much,” he told reporters outside court in April.

The Greek newspaper Mpam revealed some messagesthe couple had exchanged throughout the past three years, which show their on-and-off-again relationship. In April 2021, about a month after Iris’ death, Daskalakis wrote to Pispirigkou: “Will we have a loss every time we separate?”

In television interviews, Pispirigkou showed the tattoos she got each time one of her daughters died. She said it proved that she loved the children when suspicions began to emerge that she was involved in their deaths. After the first alleged attack on her eldest daughter, Georgina, which left her badly sick, she also added an image showing her cardiogram and the quote “Life goes on.”

The Death of Her Three Daughters Became a Huge TV Tragedy—Now Mom Is Charged With Triple Homicide

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[Granmaw]

Textbook Munchhausen syndrome by proxy.

 

[Sassedame]

That beautiful baby girl…dammit, we can diagnose, reason, understand all day long but it won’t bring back these beautiful children. Mental illness needs to be taken seriously in all countries.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Georgiana, 9, Iris, 6 months and Malena, 5

 

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29.03.2024

After a trial lasting 14 months, a mixed jury court on Friday sentenced Roula Pispirigou to life imprisonment for the murder of her eldest daughter, Georgina.

Both the jury and judges found the 35-year-old woman guilty as charged in the indictment.

She received a life sentence as her attorney did not request the granting of mitigating circumstances. Pispirigou was convicted of murdering the 9-year-old in January 2022 and attempting to murder her when the child was hospitalized at Patra’s Karamandaneio Hospital the previous year. Her initial attempt failed, leaving the child paralyzed.

Later, Pispirigou administered ketamine, resulting in the child’s death at the children’s hospital.

Mother gets life for murder of 9-year-old daughter | eKathimerini.com

After a trial lasting 14 months, a mixed jury court on Friday sentenced Roula Pispirigou to life imprisonment for the murder of her eldest daughter, Georgina.

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[62julietandvoid]

So, what did she do exactly to hurt the nine year old during the first attempt ?

 

[Symmachus]

A horrific story. She should not have children again. If, for some reason, she gets pregnant in prison, the child should be given to another family immediately after birth. She has shown herself, in the worst way possible, to be completely incapable of being the type of mother a child needs.