{"id":5053,"date":"2025-03-18T10:58:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T10:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/patra-mother-roula-pispirgou-convicted-of-killing-all-three-daughters\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T10:58:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T10:58:51","slug":"patra-mother-roula-pispirgou-convicted-of-killing-all-three-daughters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/patra-mother-roula-pispirgou-convicted-of-killing-all-three-daughters\/","title":{"rendered":"Patra mother Roula Pispirgou convicted of killing all three daughters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Nearly a year after being sentenced to life in prison for killing her 9-year-old daughter Georgina by injecting her with a fatal dose of ketamine, Roula Pispirigou was found guilty on Tuesday of the murders of her two other children, Malena, 3, and Iris, who was just six months old. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following a trial that took 12 months to come to a conclusion, the 35-year-old Patra woman was sentenced to two more life terms in prison after judges upheld the prosecutor\u2019s position, which argued that Pispirigou \u201cwas methodical and calculating,\u201d and driven by an obsessive fixation on the girls\u2019 father, Manos Daskalakis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe suffocated her children so that she could keep her husband close,\u201d said the prosecutor, Vassiliki Dimopoulou.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Malena was killed in 2019 while in hospital receiving treatment for leukemia, Iris was suffocated in her bed in 2021 and Georgina also died in a hospital, where she had been admitted after suffering \u201ccardiac arrest,\u201d in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Dimopoulou also accused the forensic examiners who investigated the girls\u2019 deaths of negligence, saying that their \u201cfailures\u201d allowed Pispirigou to get away with her crimes for years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey lacked a sense of responsibility and failed to conduct a thorough and serious investigation into the causes of death of three young children. Their work was sloppy and indifferent,\u201d the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n<p>Pispirgou\u2019s appeal against the conviction for murdering Georgina is scheduled for May 5.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n        var NXFBPixelFunc = function () {\n            document.removeEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n            setTimeout(function () {\n                !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                    if (f.fbq) return;\n                    n = f.fbq = function () {\n                        n.callMethod ?\n                            n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                    };\n                    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                    n.push = n;\n                    n.loaded = !0;\n                    n.version = '2.0';\n                    n.queue = [];\n                    t = b.createElement(e);\n                    t.async = !0;\n                    t.src = v;\n                    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n                }(window, document, 'script',\n                    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                fbq('init', '109138906120213');\n                fbq('track', 'PageView');\n            }, 0)\n        };\n        document.addEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/news\/1264416\/patra-mother-roula-pispirgou-convicted-of-killing-all-three-daughters\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly a year after being sentenced to life in prison for killing her 9-year-old daughter Georgina by injecting her with a fatal dose of ketamine, Roula Pispirigou was found guilty on Tuesday of the murders of her two other children, Malena, 3, and Iris, who was just six months old. \u00a0 Following a trial that &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Patra mother Roula Pispirgou convicted of killing all three daughters\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/patra-mother-roula-pispirgou-convicted-of-killing-all-three-daughters\/#more-5053\" aria-label=\"Read more about Patra mother Roula Pispirgou convicted of killing all three daughters\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/intime-pispirigou-960x600.jpg?v=1742286733","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}