NY businesswoman accused of killing autistic son stands trial

Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2014-09-15 01:32

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'Gigi Jordan showed no emotion as a New York prosecutor described to a jury a "chilling and horrifying scenario" in which the businesswoman who made a fortune in pharmaceuticals allegedly concocted a lethal cocktail of painkillers and anti-inflammatories and forced her 8-year-old autistic son to swallow it.
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"His fate was sealed," Bogdanos said. "He didn't die fast. One by one, his vital organs shut down. It didn't take minutes. It took hours to die."

But on the first day of Jordan's sensational second-degree murder trial -- expected to last months -- defense attorney Allan Brenner painted a starkly different portrait.

Brenner described Jordan as a desperate mother ultimately driven to kill Jude Mirra by her two former husbands: One who had allegedly threatened to kill her, a crime that would have left the boy with his biological father, who she believed had sexually abused Jude.
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The boy's father has denied the allegations and has never been charged, CNN affiliate WCBS reported.

Brenner said Jordan told a therapist about the alleged abuse. The allegations were reported to local authorities, but no action was taken. Jordan then decided to seek the help of a nationally renowned expert on child exploitation in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

After being interviewed by him for 30 minutes, Brenner said, Jordan was accused of being unfit and delusional, taken to a medical facility and separated from her son for several months before being reunited with the boy.

"Now she sits here forever brokenhearted, stranded and separated from the true love of her life -- her son," Brenner said.

Jordan faces 15 years to life in prison if convicted. She is expected to take the stand.'

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... as he lay dying, right next to her.

Socialite 'balanced her checkbook as son, 8, lay dying next to her in $2,300-a-night Manhattan hotel suite after she fed him overdose of crushed pills and vodka'

'Gigi Jordan, 54, forced a cocktail of crushed pills and booze down the throat of her 8-year-old autistic son Jude Michael Mirra in a $2,300-a-night suite at Manhattan's posh Peninsula Hotel on Feb. 4, 2010.

She then balanced her checkbook and called her financial advisor to transfer $125,000 from her son's trust into her account as he lay on the bed slowly dying next to her, the prosecution stated in their opening argument.
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After forcing the pills down the boy's throat with a syringe and spending the night with his body, Jordan then attempted to take her own life by consuming the same mixture of pills and vodka she gave her son, but was foiled when members of law enforcement kicked down the door to the room and found her on the floor incoherent and babbling.

She immediately said to one officer, 'I want a lawyer.' 

Lead prosecutor Matthew Bogdanos scoffed at the notion of this being a mercy killing in court earlier today however, saying Jordan just wanted to live the life of the socialite and not be tied down by a young son who required so much attention with his special needs.'

The evil, sociopathic witch is an ad for the idea of requiring psychiatric testing prior to people being permitted to reproduce.

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Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2014-09-15 04:38

I find it both extremely sad and unsurprising that now that she's been caught red-handed, she and her attorney are trying to pass the buck to the nearest man. Thankfully, I don't think anyone, myself included, is buying that heaping load of you-know-what.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Mon, 2014-09-15 20:21