January 19 1997. In a farmhouse in Ilia, the mother started setting the table and serving the dishes with lentils. Her eldest daughter's portion was specially "groomed". THE 22year she ate her food and went to lie down. But he never woke up.
47-year-old Panagiota was one "Cold woman". This is how everyone in the village characterized it. By the time her husband was killed in 1988, she had been estranged from relatives and friends and was raising her five children alone.
He never survived his death and never believed he was killed because he fell from the tractor. She herself believed that her husband had been murdered, but this was never investigated. Since then, the widow has not trusted anyone. The family made ends meet with Panagiota's daily living and a small pension. In the morning a farmer and in the evening a mother. So nine years passed. The family house in the small village of Ilia. The guilty secret In 1997 her eldest daughter was of marriageable age. Her brother was one year older, followed by her 19-year-old sister and two other minor children.
Η 22year Kostoula was a closed character and did not have many social contacts. According to her fellow villagers, she knew nothing but going to the "things on the mountain". A sullen and unsmiling girl, she rarely said "hello" and passed with her head bowed. He got lost with the herd on the slopes of the stone mountain and turned around at dusk ". He did not go out often, did not participate in local parties and had a strict routine.
So, at that time, her mother realized that bloating was not because she was fat, but because it was pregnant, the shock was great. However, the 47-year-old Panagiota had to act immediately. Her daughter was unmarried and if the pregnancy was found out, the outcry would be great. She was afraid that she would not be able to "marry well" her other children because no one would want to be related to a "dishonored" one. So, her first thought was to take her daughter to the hospital in Patras for an abortion. Then came the second "hit".
The 23-year-old was already in seventh month and medical termination of pregnancy at this stage was prohibitive. Fearing for her reaction, the girl had not spoken to her mother before. After all, she did not want to give birth and did not believe that she could "settle" the issue before it began to be perceived. She lifted weights, worked in the fields, made abrupt movements and placed objects on her belly. Nothing had the desired effect.
He hit her in the abdomen to lose the child
When the Panagiota, she started "helping" too. He hit her in the abdomen, assigned her heavy work and gave her special "medicine" in small doses. But again, the young body of the girl, as well as the baby she was carrying inside, was resilient and did not succumb to hardships. Thus, the new year entered and Kostoula was now in her eighth month. The siege was suffocatingly closed and the secret would be revealed wherever it was. The "mother" had to act immediately.
The poison in the lentil
It was past nine on the evening of Sunday, January 19, 1997. Only the older brother, who had gone to a wedding, was missing from the family home. As every day, the mother started setting the table and serving the dishes. Kostoula stated that she had no appetite to eat lentils. Her mother, however, insisted. He sat on top of the girl until she emptied the plate. It was not long before Kostoula began to feel unwell. He was dizzy and had horrible stomach pains. After vomiting, he went to lie down.
He put an insecticide on the lentils
Panagiota knew that her daughter would never get up. She had watered her food with a "strong" dose of furandan, which was a powerful insecticide. And indeed, the weakened body of the 22-year-old could not stand it. When her brother returned home at night, he noticed that the girl was not waking up and was frozen. Panicked, he called his mother and then hurried to call for help. Within a short time, the whole village had learned that Kostoula was dead.
The unknown father and the tragic ending
The mother did not immediately confess her act. At first everyone thought it was suicide. After all, the day that Panagiota chose to end her daughter's life was not accidental.
The same night he was getting married a young man, who a few years ago had proposed to Kostoula. The girl wanted him very much, but her mother flatly refused. So when her death coincided with the wedding party, everyone believed that she had ended her life out of frustration. However, during the interrogations things started to get complicated. The victim's mother and 9-year-old sister fell into controversy and police became suspicious. They did not have to put much pressure on her. After a few hours, the 47-year-old pedophile "Bent".
"It is a big scandal in the village to give birth to an unmarried girl, so because I have three other girls, and a son, it clouded my mind. I stayed 37 years old widow "I raised five children, working all day and I did not want my other girls to take the path that our Kostoula took and shamed us all," she said in her testimony. The small community of the village "froze". Nobody expected such a development.
The family may not have "had much to give" with the rest of the village, but everyone knew and appreciated them. As soon as the tragic event was learned, all the details began to become known. The mother claimed in her testimony that another reason that her daughter's pregnancy was undesirable was the fact that the baby would be a product of incest.
10 years in prison for pedophilia
Although the 22-year-old never revealed the father of the child, the perpetrator was convinced that it was her uncle. Following the confession, the 47-year-old was arrested and in the fall of 1997 was taken to trial. In her apology, she took back what she had testified in the first days, claiming that the police forced her to lie. The prosecutor was not convinced and proposed that she be sentenced to thirty years in prison.
The criminal court, however, recognized the mitigation of her previous honest life. With four votes in favor and three against, the pedophile was sentenced to 10 years in prison for intentional homicide and 6 months for the crime of violent termination of pregnancy.
Source: mixanitouxronou.gr / Enimerotiko