Eirini Mourtzoukou Indicted for Infant Deaths and Attempted Murder

Eirini Mourtzoukou faces trial at the Mixed Jury Court following a prosecutor's indictment detailing severe charges, including the deaths of three infants and an attempted murder of a former partner. The 25-year-old remains in pre-trial detention at Korydallos Prison.

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organized, highly calculating, violent, ruthless, unscrupulous, and extremely dangerous individual.

The indictment from the Council of Misdemeanor Judges of Achaia fully adopted the prosecutor's findings, labeling Mourtzoukou as an "organized, highly calculating, violent, ruthless, unscrupulous, and extremely dangerous individual." The prosecutor's reasoning states that the accused "enjoyed her victims, helpless in her hands, without any guilt," and dismissed defense claims of diminished responsibility.

The timeline of alleged events begins with an attempted murder against her former partner during Christmas 2020. This was followed by the death of a six-month-old infant belonging to a friend, Katerina, on February 4, 2021. Mourtzoukou's own first child died on June 19, 2022, at just 19 days old, and her second child, two-month-old Maria-Frederiki, died on October 17, 2023.

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enjoyed her victims, helpless in her hands, without any guilt.

Prosecutors trace the alleged criminal path back to 2014, with the death of Mourtzoukou's younger sister, Zoe. Although that offense is time-barred, the prosecutor described it as a precursor to her later actions, suggesting the accused killed her sister in an "unfeeling manner" during her adolescence. Authorities noted that the victims were not chosen randomly, with Mourtzoukou allegedly targeting small, defenseless children to exert control, dominance, and achieve a "distorted self-empowerment." Her unstable family background, marked by frequent moves, is cited as an environment where she developed manipulative behaviors and falsehoods that fueled her criminal tendencies.

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precursor to her later actions