The chapter of a case that has been dealing with Greek public opinion for years, causing shock and disgust for how a mother, Roula Pispirigou She may have deprived her of life from her children, Malena and Irida, closes with the court ruling for her unanimous condemnation of two life.
Roula Pispirigou is not the first mother to be sentenced to Greece for the murder of her children, but she is the first Greek woman to live the rest of her life in prison for this crime. The Athens Joint Circuit Court announced his ruling on the deaths of the two girls, unanimously judged Rula Pispirigou for homicide by intent, in a calm mental state, in confusion. And she imposed a two -year -old life.
A child’s childhood is perhaps the most heinous of crimes because no one can imagine that the man who gives life to a creature reaches the point of taking it out.
The term “Modern Medea” used for crimes committed by mothers with victims of their own children and is not accidental.
Baker
In May 1961 Greece is overwhelmed by a childhood case starring the so -called “Medea of Kalamaki”.
The 28 -year -old American Bakershe has lived in Greece since 1960 with her husband Joel Baker and their three children. Her husband met a young Greek woman, Venice Sitara, who worked on the American base and begins to have contacts with her. When Baker discovers it she decides that she should not live either her or her children.
Baker lived but the death of her children was horrifying. She attempted to commit suicide by nailing the knife to her throat, but her husband had already arrived at home and so she managed to escape.
She had strangled her three children with a cord and only her young son tried to bring some resistance.
He first strangled Kiti, after Suzana and last Joe. He never showed a sign of remorse. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison with the mitigating of the crime of crime in the soul of the soul and a state of moderate confusion. But she was given grace and left for America in 1963, leaving behind a case that is still considered a reference point in the forensic time of childhood in our country.
The first taught
In Greek mythology, the Medea She was the daughter of the King of Colchis Aetius and the Ocean or Head. When Jason, leader of the Argonautic campaign, arrived in Colchis, Medea fell in love with him and put all the means of her art, until the hero acquired the golden fleece. After that she followed her lover and to delay Aetius, who was persecuted, cut her brother, flamboyant, and scattered his members at sea.
In Iolkos later, Jason begged her to avenge Pelia, the murder of his father and brother during his campaign. Medea then persuaded Pelia’s daughters to cut their father’s body and boil it, because they would so be able to make it new again. Following the pursuit of the pair of lovers by his son Pelia, Akastos, they fled to Corinth, where they lived for a time happy, until Jason abandoned Medea to adhere to King Creon’s daughter, Glaucis.
Medea again used her magic filters to avenge her rival. She sent her poisoned jacket as a gift for her wedding, who was flames and burned her.
Medea’s pediatricians
Her revenge, however, did not stop here, but reached her most abusive crime. Killed her two children ferry and marimowhich he had acquired with Jason, then climbed into a chariot that was brought by winged dragons and arrived in Athens, where he joined the Aegean and acquired Midi.
The “Medea Syndrome”
As experts say “Medea Syndrome”: “The woman uses her body as the most powerful communication medium, as her biggest weapon. Because of the absolute power that the mother has in her children in the private space of her home, some disturbed women, deprived of maternal care, see their children as a narcissistic extension of themselves. So, instead of turning the devastating rage into herself, she turns this deadly impulse to her child. That is, childhood as a function is the mirror of suicide in imagination. Killing the bad part of herself that has been shown on the child, the mother has a temporary one eliminated the unacceptable parts of herself that she has not been. “
De Mause writes: “The use of children as a scapegoat to relieve personal internal conflict has proven to be an extremely effective way to maintain our collective psychological homeostasis … The child is used as a poison container, where one can display pieces of his soul.”
From a study done in medical records, psychological tests, and 20 women’s court records in South Carolina, aged 18-66, who were hospitalized after their children’s murders on the subject of childhood, four incentives arise:
a) pathologically – the mother is mentally ill
b) accidental – child abuse or physical discipline lead to death
c) retaliation – the child is murdered to punish someone else, often the husband
d) Baby – The child is killed in the first 24 hours of life, usually by a young woman, often a teenager, who has hesitated to reveal her pregnancy to parents or others.