Mother gets life for murder of 9-year-old daughter
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 from the western port city of Patra 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.
