Gigi Jordan 2014 - The mother of an autistic 8-year-old, who died in 2010 due to fatal overdose of prescription pills, was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree Wednesday.
According to Gigi Jordan 2014 update reports, the former Manhattan pharmaceutical exec and multimillionaire mother was convicted of manslaughter despite dodging a second-degree murder charge.
Previously, Jordan was faced with a possibility of serving jail time for as little as 5 years to as long as 15 years, according to New York News & Politics.
While earlier reports claimed that Jordan force-fed her autistic son a large quantity of prescription drugs that led to the death of the latter, Gigi Jordan 2014 trial updates state that the multimillionaire's defense team managed to convince the jury by saying that the embattled mother simply tried to "to save [Jude] from a life of sexual torture" at the hands of his biological father.
Jordan alleged that the father of her autistic son was already plotting her murder at the time and that she didn't want her son to end up with his abuser, so she did what she had to do.
In contrast, the prosecution argued that the former pharmaceutical exec killed the autistic child, who was almost nonverbal due to his condition.
Amid the six-week trial, Gigi Jordan maintained a calm resolve and she even denied and denounced her alleged motive in killing her son.
"There are a lot of people who have snapped under the pressure of caring for a child with multiple disabilities," she was once quoted by The Wall Street Journal. "That's not my case. Jude was not a burden to me."
Meanwhile, in a statement after the verdict, Manhattan D.A. Cyrus Vance Jr. said, "Gigi Jordan showed no mercy to her son and should receive none at the time of her sentencing."
According to the prosecution, "Jordan was on her laptop siphoning $125,000 from his trust fund" while her son was dying.
Investigators found over 6,000 pills and a bottle of Grey Goose beside the eight-year-old's body.
That time, Jordan and her son were staying at a $2,300-a-night room at the Peninsula Hotel on Fifth Avenue.
"She did this because she loved him so much she couldn't bear the thought of him living without her or him being subjected to the life she'd tried to rescue him from," Gigi Jordan's lawyer, Allan Brenner, said.
Since the jurors accepted the defense, Jordan has been convicted of manslaughter and could be sentenced to as little as five years behind bars. Had she been convicted of murder, she would have been sentenced to 15 years, reports New York Post.
Gigi Jordan is a former Manhattan nurse who became an entrepreneur, making over $50 million with home health care companies, according to New York Times.
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