With tears but also irritation and spikes against the director of the Children’s ICU of the University Hospital of Rio, Andreas Iliadis, continued the apology of Roula Pispirigou regarding the time after the protest suffered by Georgina in Karamandanio.

The defendant devoted a lot of time to what happened on April 11, 2021, when Georgina was hurriedly transferred after the seizure from Karamandanio to the intensive care unit of Rio where they were received by Mr. Iliadis. “He told us that the situation was critical and that the first 24 hours were critical. He also told us that he will apply an innovative method of hypothermia. We told him “doctor, our child is in your hands”. He told us to pray.he said.

The 35-year-old claimed that Mr. Iliadis may have been recording the conversations that they had in his office, which were then published on a television show.

“There was no one else in this room. Me, Manos, him and the geneticist on the phone. I asked Manos, it wasn’t him. I had him (the doctor) as God in my hands. It was my child’s life in my hands. And I see the dialogue being published on a show.”

According to the 35-year-old, initially they had no information about Georgina’s brain condition and that the child was seriously harmed after the arrest. The day after the hypothermia procedure, Mr. Iliadis, as the defendant told the judges, informed Manos Daskalakis that Georgina’s heart was improving. “Here, in court, he told you that he had a problem with his kidneys and that he was about to undergo dialysis. He didn’t tell us anything then. Why didn’t he tell us?” he noted.

Crying, Roula Pispirigou spoke of the days the child was in intensive care, referring to April 13so it was two years since Malena’s death: “Can you imagine a parent having to go to the cemetery for one of their children, having lost one baby and having the other in intensive care?”

As he said, “at some point we saw the child through the door. A child from head to toe all wired, machines, bloods, conditions, intubated. You couldn’t stand that your 8-year-old had nothing. She was one who lives, one who will die and we were with her, we will live or we will die…”.

The defendant claimed that one of the following days Mr. Iliadis called her and Manos Daskalakis to his office where he showed them photos of children: “He told us ‘these children had hero mothers. They gave organs and other children were saved.’ But I didn’t want to be a hero mother because I donated. These mothers are certainly heroes, the institution is correct. But I was thinking about the next step in life. I wanted Georgina to have hope. That’s how I was looking at the photo of a boy, Angelos, who Mr. Iliadis told us was rehabilitated after a protest. Angel interested me. Nothing else”.

Earlier, Roula Pispirigou noted that the decision to admit Georgina to Karamandanio was made after the child vomited and that it was initially decided to return home. Describing the moment when, after the vomiting, the doctor told her that Georgina should stay, the accused said that she had angrily replied: “If possible; You do tests, you tell me he has nothing. Would you take this child out?’ A little later, referring to the testimony of Karamandanios’ doctors, she said: “I heard their testimony. They said about Georgina’s stress. I heard this about “stress” for the first time here. There, I never heard such a thing.”

He also argued that the child had vomited and had episodes of shortness of breath and coughing. So they had put in an oximeter. He said he had become very irritated as the doctors “went from one diagnosis to another. When they called gastroenteritis, then bronchopneumonia. I wanted to take her from there and take her to the University in Rio.”

However, as noted, the child had another episode, more severe this time.

Weeping, the accused reported the fatal stop: “The doctor came and told me to go out. I saw him perform CPR on her. My legs were cut off. There was a disturbance. The doctors were running. At one point the door opened and a nurse handed me the three bracelets Georgina was wearing. I looked in and saw the doctor sitting on the child and doing CPR. I saw her inject her heart. I was frozen. I was afraid. I had lived with Malena… I don’t know how long this lasted… At one point I heard the doctors shouting from inside “well done my girl! well done!”. I felt relieved. They came out and told us “he’s back. He’s alive”. They didn’t even tell us about a brain problem…nothing. They told us that she had a miscarriage and that they will take her to the intensive care unit in Rio.”