The mother of the 5-year-old girl, who fell into the sea in Piraeus yesterday and almost lost her life, was sentenced to one year in prison with a three-year probation. However, she will serve one month out of twelve as the court did not accept as sufficient the explanations she gave as to how the child escaped her attention and found herself in the sea.
The 37-year-old mother of the girl had been arrested and detained for child endangerment. Today, Thursday, she was taken to the Piraeus Prosecutor's Office in Piraeus as part of the self-incrimination procedure.
Meanwhile, the 5-year-old girl is in better health. She is still being treated as a precautionary measure at the Children's Hospital and is due to be discharged in the next few hours.
As her father told protothema.gr, his family of 9, as he has 6 more children, lives on the street, in the port and yesterday at noon the unfortunate girl went to play in the boats and as a result she slipped.
"Yesterday at noon I was with my wife. I say I'm going to get coffee and water. Venus was behind her mother and at some point she leaves her mother. But the woman is walking and they were going home and she was behind her but she knew all the time that she was behind her. And the woman goes ahead, then the woman turns back and she doesn't see her," the father of the 5-year-old said, adding that the child escaped their attention because the boat that was tied up next door was leaving at that time.
"She went to the dock, on the tires and she was playing with her foot, she slipped with her foot and fell in. Seconds she was there, and I wasn't there and the child fell in. Then we figured it out, because when the girl fell in the boat was leaving. And those above the boat were shouting the little girl fell into the sea," the father stressed.
Source: Proto Thema
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