New York socialite sentenced to 18 years in poisoning autistic son

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A wealthy New York socialite was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Thursday after being convicted of killing her young autistic son at a luxury Manhattan hotel room in 2010.

Gigi Jordan, 54, was convicted of first-degree manslaughter in November after admitting that she administered an overdose of prescription pills to 8-year-old Jude Mirra at the posh Peninsula Hotel on Fifth Avenue, using a crusher and syringe.

Jordan's attorneys argued throughout the two-month trial that she had killed the boy in an act of mercy to prevent the boy's biological father from sexually abusing him, a scenario that prosecutors said was based on fiction.

Judge Charles Solomon of the state Supreme Court in Manhattan handed down a sentence that was close to the maximum of 25 years in prison under New York guidelines, saying he was mystified by the mother's lack of remorse.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/york-socialite-sentenced-18-years-poisoning-autistic-son-224004705.html

[PersonNumber503602]

1. Good thing she didn't claim she suffers from affluzena

or she may have got off with a community service.

[rpannier]

2. Her community service

Hosting several posh dinner parties for the upper crust

[Javaman]

3. "he was mystified by the mother's lack of remorse."

sociopathic sociolite

[snooper2]

4. why wasn't this murder 1?