Roula Pispirigou took the road to prison after her apology, with the 33-year-old woman accused of intentional homicide of her 9-year-old daughter Tzortzina's 9-year-old daughter is considered to be remanded in custody with the agreement of the interrogator and the prosecutor.
Upon leaving the interrogator's office, Roula Pispirigou's lawyers made statements in which they pointed out that their client "denies everything."
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"After an interrogation process that lasted over 9 hours, the defendant exposed her position in relation to the accusation. She denies everything. She will never, as she states, never admit that she took the lives of her children. No such thing happened."
He added: "She raises arguments and questions which have not found a convincing answer even today. It is a dossier that leaves some gaps. We fully respect the decision of the competent investigative and prosecutorial authorities. We will continue our efforts to find, in principle, the origin of the ketamine that caused the death of little Georgina. According to the defendant and my client, the origin of the quantity will also show us who did the deed. We have submitted a request for a written answer from the Children's Hospital as to whether this pharmaceutical substance is finally available at this hospital."
What she claimed
According to reports, the accused claims that Georgina's death was most likely due to medical error, blaming the fatal amount of ketamine on the doctors who resuscitated the child at noon on January 29, 2022 when she died.
"I deny in its entirety the charge attributed to me, I never sought, desired or caused the death of my child," the 33-year-old reportedly says in the memorandum submitted to the investigator and adds: "No mother can harm her own child."
Referring to Georgina, whom she is accused of murdering with a large dose of ketamine, the accused notes that the 9-year-old was her first child and was her greatest weakness.
Characteristically, she states: "Georgina's death, which followed the tragic incidents that had taken place against the two other children who had earlier lost their lives from other causes, came as a final blow to me, and was also the final blow to my family, whose unity began to waver after the aforementioned tragic events to the point that today it has almost definitively disintegrated."
Referring to the indictment against her, Roula Pispirigou refers to "random elements" on which - as she says - the accusation is based.
She argues that as Georgina's mother, she should have been her companion in the hospital and refutes the accusations of the indictment, which wanted little Georgina to suffer all the episodes always outside the ICU and with her being with her, the 33-year-old allegedly replies that this was because the time spent in the ICU of each hospital was comparatively short compared to the time spent in the ward of each paediatric clinic.
Her allegations, however, did not convince the investigator and the prosecutor who, at the end of the apology procedure, concluded that the woman, against whom an arrest warrant was issued on Wednesday, is dangerous to commit new offences and should be temporarily detained.
The evidence in the case file that "burns" her
The case file includes shocking evidence showing that 9-year-old Georgina's death was in essence... foretold a day before by her own mother to the doctors.
"These episodes you saw are nothing. The big episode hasn't made it yet." With these words, Roula Pispirigou announced her child's death to the doctors a day earlier, surprising both the medical and nursing staff of the hospital, as their findings did not point to any new major episode that could endanger the child's life.
This calmness on the part of little Georgina's mother was reflected in the memory of the witnesses who were examined in the pre-trial proceedings. What is striking, they said, is that it was not the first time that this woman had dealt with issues relating to her child's health with the same composure.
Those who were involved in the effort to keep the unfortunate Georgina alive remember that "when the last episode occurred, she was calm during the doctors' desperate attempts to save the child".
The evidence of the pre-trial file, however, also reveals the "methodicalness" that characterized the behavior of Roula Pispirigou, throughout the period of the child's hospitalization, making sure that he remained in a single room, her anxiety to be artificially informed if there were cameras in it, while at the same time, she herself had taken care of feeding him, claiming that she had knowledge and could feed her child, who had gastrostomia.
Pispirigu stated that she knew how to administer the drugs from the gastrostomy and therefore it was decided to give them to the child herself.
Inside the hospital the child had new episodes and because of this the nursing staff was instructed to stop Pispirigu from administering the drugs but to have the nurse do it exclusively.
It is noted that on January 27, 2022, the father left and only Pispirigou remained until her death, stressed in the police transmittal.
The 33-year-old mother who was always next to little Georgina, as noted by doctors and nurses, remained unperturbed even when the last episode occurred in the 9-year-old on January 29. "Shortly before 2.30am one of the nurses noticed Pispirigu walking towards the nursing desk as if she was looking for a nurse.
" The way she was walking and the fact that she was not calling for help gave the nurse the impression that she was going to ask for a sheet or something else.
" As she approached the nurse she said something in a low voice that she did not hear or understand. When the nurse realized that the child was having another episode she informed the doctor on duty and within seconds they were in the child's ward.
" Upon entering the ward, they saw the child had cyanosis, was apneic and both the doctor and the nurse noticed that the oximeter attached to the child did not sound, the characteristic sound it makes when the child's spasms drop. The child was intubated again and shortly after 15.50 he died."
Gene tests
However, from the tests done on Georgina for genes and specialised genetic testing, all the syndromes that cause sudden death were tested and the result was negative.
"Fatal ketamine poisoning"
According to the toxicology report, Georgina's death "occurred as a consequence of fatal drug poisoning. Ketamine was found in her post-mortem blood at a very high concentration of 6.5 ml per ml." The time it took for the ketamine to take effect was between 5 and 20 minutes.
The path to death
However, it is characteristic that all of Georgina's episodes occurred when the child was in the room and not in the ICU.
In particular, several episodes were reported that the child had, nine in total, which were treated by the doctors. These episodes were characterized as sudden and in two of them the pacemaker was activated.
Source: in.gr
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