{"id":144873,"date":"2026-02-25T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/144873\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T15:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:36:08","slug":"mercy-for-your-mother-justice-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/144873\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercy For Your Mother, Justice For You"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\"Queens<\/a><\/p>\n

Queens Supreme Court Judge Peter F. Vallone Jr. sentenced George Tsintzelis to the maximum 25-year sentence on Wednesday, February 18, for the heinous November 2024 attack on his mother, Paraveski Tsintzelis, 64.<\/p>\n

\u201cOkay, you\u2019re done.\u201d Queens Supreme Court Judge Peter F. Vallone Jr cut off whining and empty pleas before showing what justice truly means in a case like this. \u201cYou\u2019re asking for mercy today, but what I give you today is justice. Justice you de\u00adserve. And I\u2019ll give mercy\u2013\u2013I\u2019ll give mercy to your mom, to your victims \u2014 hundreds of victims in Astoria. The victims you would\u2019ve committed crimes against if you aren\u2019t in jail right now. But the sentence today is for what you did to your mom and what you did to your mom alone.\u201d Those profound words came as George Tsintzelis, 37, shed \u201ctears\u201d in court, and received the maximum 25-year sentence on Wednesday February 18 for the heinous November 2024 attack on his mother, Paraveski Tsintzelis, 64.<\/p>\n

Tsintzelis was found guilty in Decem\u00adber of throwing his mother out of the win\u00addow of her third-story Astoria apartment after she refused to give him money for drugs. Tsintzelis has continuously tried to claim that his mother was suffering from mental illness and jumped out the window herself\u2013\u2013though no evidence has proved this.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors argued that Tsintzelis, who has a string of prior arrests and claimed in court that his \u201cprevious crimes have noth\u00ading to do with this case,\u201d had been terror\u00adizing his mother for years\u2013\u2013assaulting, abusing, and stealing from her to help fuel his drug habits. On the day he attempted to kill her, prosecutors said he held her at the window ledge at knifepoint before pushing her out of it. Not only did he leave her alone and in severe pain on the ground, but he also tried to shamelessly lie and claim he was never at the scene of the crime to begin with.<\/p>\n

Assistant District Attorney Christina Mavrikis said in court, \u201cArguably the worst part of this is he left her there to die on the ground. He called 911 and he pretended to have no idea what just happened.\u201d The DA further stated that even after his arrest and the order of protection was put into place following the attempt on his mother\u2019s life, her convicted son still tried to manipulate her. \u201cHe called her from Rikers, violating the order of protection to try to emotionally manipulate her into not coming to court and testifying here to tell everybody what had happened to her,\u201d the prosecutor con\u00adtinued: \u201cShe told me that she was haunted by the memory of that evening. She cannot sleep in her own bed anymore, and she has not done so since she returned from the hospital after the incident. She told me, \u2018As a mother I tried. I love my son. I didn\u2019t want this. I tried to help him, support him. I tried to get him into programs, I let him live with me. He needs help, but I\u2019m also scared of what he\u2019ll do to me if he gets out.\u2019 She knows if he were to get out he is at great risk of injuring her and even killing her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Paraskevi survived the dis\u00adturbing attack, she has a long road to recov\u00adery. She has now undergone eight surgeries, and her daughter, Argyro Tsintzelis, has reportedly said it may not even be her last.<\/p>\n

In the end, Tsintzelis\u2019s waterworks were no match for the justice handed down in the courtroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queens Supreme Court Judge Peter F. Vallone Jr. sentenced George Tsintzelis to the maximum 25-year sentence on Wednesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-144873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}