Pediatrician who received Georgina at the Karamandanios outpatient clinic in Patras on April 8, 2021, where the defendant took the child. Rula Pispirigou reporting a case of convulsions, testifies at the trial of a 34-year-old mother in the Moscow Region.

As a witness, pediatrician Menia Grapsa said that she examined Georgina and, because she showed a good picture, was not convinced that there were seizures, as her mother told her, and therefore decided that tests should be done.

Both the accused Rula Pispirigou and Georgina’s father Manos Daskalakis listen to the pediatrician’s testimony.

• President: What time did you see the child?
• Witness: 9:30 am to 9:50 am. Mother told me that she had convulsions. Many parents come with self-diagnosis. He reported that he shook his head and eyes, and then the child began to convulse. He defined them as movements of the limbs. He told me that his eyes were open and that he was observing his mother’s eye movements. It didn’t convince me it was spasms. I thought it might be some kind of pill poisoning. I asked my mother if there were any medicines in the house, and she told me that there were antiepileptic drugs that the doctor prescribed for her after she had a stroke. When I asked when the episode happened, my child said it happened at about 5:30.

The doctor’s reference to “anti-epileptic pills” shortly thereafter provoked a violent reaction from the defendant, who claimed that Pispirigo had told her in an argument with the doctor that there were antidepressants at home. Mr. Kougias even asked the witness:

• Kogias: Why are you doing this? The defendant never took anticonvulsants. Do you understand that you created the impression that the defendant lied to you?
• Witness: An episode can be provoked by both antiepileptic and antidepressants. And antidepressants are worse.
• Kougias (to the chairman): She gives false evidence, and we reserve the right to protect the interests of the accused. She is a perjurer and biased.

The witness, answering a question from the president, said that a strong nightmare that a child could have could cause a physical reaction, as Pispirigo described to her at the time. “I thought he might have been in shock, but my mom insisted on convulsions,” he said.

On behalf of the defense, the witness was asked if she understood that a child could be “taught” not to answer questions from doctors. Mrs. Grafsa replied that “no doctor can think of such a thing.” The following dialogue with Mr. Koya followed:

• Kougias: But that’s what prosecutors and investigators thought…
• Witness: They would have had a reason.
• Kogias: What do you say about this part of the charge, that the defendant chose your hospital to bring the child there and kill him, and that she convinced him not to answer you? Can you answer this?
• Witness: No, I don’t go into that.
• Kogias: So how do you see this scenario proposed by Judgment?
• Witness: Judge Justice?

During these questions, Rula Pispirigo stated that she was not feeling well and received permission from the President to leave the room.

• Kougias: Why do you say that she brought the baby after a few hours?
• Witness: My answer is the same. My mother said she had an episode at 5:30.
• President: The accused in his supplementary affidavit says that the episode started at 6:30. The General Counsel is asking you if this gap between 6:30 and the time you brought the child to the hospital is reasonable?
• Witness: I had other evidence based on what my mother told me, and I testified to that. However, she did not immediately go to the hospital in a panic.

The process continues.

Intervention by the prosecutor to publish photos through the court

Meanwhile, the Prosecutor’s Office of First Instance ordered an investigation into the publication on a social network of photos of Rula Pispirigou and her estranged husband, Manos Daskalakis, from the courtroom where the trial of the death of their first child is taking place. Georgina.

The prosecutor’s office immediately ordered the Electronic Crime Unit to identify the perpetrators and implement the Autoforo procedure for each perpetrator.

^{Source: RES-IPE}