A battered Queens mother mentioned she was terrorized by her drug-addled son for years, reaching a horrifying climax final month when he put a knife to her throat and threw her from a third-story window.
Paraskevi Tsintzelis, 64, who withstood a lifetime of beatings and abuse by the hands of her troubled 36-year-old son, mentioned the breaking level got here on Nov. 15, when she returned from checking the mail at her Astoria condo constructing and located him ready in her front room, she instructed The Put up.
“I mentioned, ‘Depart,’ and he mentioned, ‘No, I wish to discuss to you,’” Paraskevi mentioned from her hospital mattress Wednesday. “He had the knives in his hand. He mentioned, ‘Don’t yell or I’m gonna stab you.’ He was breaking issues…image frames with my daughter. He wouldn’t depart. He received indignant and began chasing me round the lounge space.
“He was hurting me with the again of the knife. He pressured me to enter my bed room. He took my cellphone and my home telephone so I couldn’t name for assist,” she mentioned. ”He was smoking medication in the home and blowing it in my face. I used to be afraid of him.
“He mentioned to me, ‘F–okay you bitch.’ He had the knife at my neck.”
Then it received worse.
“He pressured me on the window ledge. He had the knife at my neck,” she mentioned. “I instructed him I needed to make use of the lavatory and I needed some water. He mentioned no. I requested him for my bronchial asthma pump and he mentioned no. ‘You’re going to see what occurs. Nobody goes to see it. Who’s going to know what occurred?’
“He pushed me laborious with each arms. I don’t know what occurred after that. I don’t bear in mind. Once I awoke I used to be within the hospital. My daughter got here. She instructed me I used to be within the hospital,” Paraskevi mentioned. “When he pushed me he thought I used to be going to die. Once I noticed the knives, I assumed I used to be going to die, too. I used to be no match for him. I’m fortunate to be alive.”
She was left with crippling accidents, together with bleeding of the mind, a damaged left shoulder and arm, an injured proper arm and a number of facial fractures. She now has a rod and 6 screws in her left leg, must stroll with a cane and should want additional surgical procedure.
And but, regardless of his historical past of abuse, Paraskevi mentioned she nonetheless worries about her son and has tried to assist him, as soon as even delivery him off to a rehab facility in Vermont.
“I give him meals, I give him this, I give him that. What else was I purported to do? I used to be afraid of him,” she mentioned. “Wherever you place the satan, it’s nonetheless the satan. I’m sorry for my phrases.”
Solely after she miraculously survived the three-story fall was she freed from her son, George Tsintzelis, who’s now locked up at Rikers Island with out bail on tried homicide and assault fees.
The accused thug instructed police he was miles away from his mother’s condo when she “fell” from her window — however cops rebuffed the declare, as did his mother and sister.
He even pressured his mom to name his sister, Argyro Tsintezelis, at knifepoint to beg for cash in the course of the terrifying Nov. 15 incident, they mentioned.
“I may hear him whispering within the background, ‘Inform her you need assistance. Inform her you need cash,’” mentioned Argyro, 39. “My mom was saying, ‘Please assist me and convey the cash. He has a knife at my throat.’
“I didn’t wish to consider at first. He’s my brother,” she mentioned. “She’s nothing however good to him. Think about birthing a toddler you took care of … who tried to kill you.”
She mentioned she thought her mom was lifeless when she heard what occurred.
“She went to the hospital as unknown. She had no ID. I needed to search for her,” Argyro mentioned. “I panicked. I used to be about to name the morgue.”
George Tsintzelis is due again in Queens court docket in March. The general public defender representing him didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from The Put up.
In the meantime, Paraskevi Tsintzelis says she remains to be haunted by her son’s allegedly close to deadly assault, and recounted a terrifying nightmare concerning the incident.
“I believe his arms are nonetheless on my face,” she mentioned. “I noticed him within the closet. I noticed him on prime of me with the knife.”
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