The son of the ‘Devil’ who chased the mother out of NYC says it was his fault in judging the story of crying
A distraught Queens man who threw his 64-year-old mother out of a third-story window shed crocodile tears in court and accused her of being sick — but failed to lie as he was released from prison.
George Tsintzelis, 37, was sentenced to 25 years on Wednesday for the shocking assault in 2024, even though he had the gall to tell the judge it was his mentally ill mother.
“He did that to himself,” said the embarrassed son in Queens Supreme Court. “He has mental health problems, it is not right that I lose my freedom because of a person with mental health problems.
“It’s not fair, judges,” Tsintzelis cried to Superior Court Judge Peter Vallone. “This is so sick. The DA is painting a picture that I’m not. The DA is lying. My previous crimes have nothing to do with this case. That’s not right.”
A Queens jury found a career criminal guilty of attempted murder in December for the gruesome attack on his mother after she refused to give him drug money on Nov. 15. 2024.
Paraskevi Tsintzelis miraculously survived a three-story fall in Astoria to testify against his embattled son — but failed to appear in court for sentencing Wednesday.
“He deserved what he got,” the criminal’s sister, Argyro, told The Post. “I don’t want to see him on the street again, I feel safe, he shouldn’t be in society, he threw his life away.
“He doesn’t care,” he added. “It’s all about him.”
Prosecutors say George Tsintzelis, who has been arrested before, was a bad boy who repeatedly beat his mother for years, beating her and stealing from her to feed her drugs.
On the day he tried to kill her, prosecutors say he held a knife to her throat before dragging her to the window and pushing her out – then tried to cover his tracks and said she wasn’t even there.
“The saddest thing is that you left him there to die,” said Assistant District Attorney Christina Mavrikis in court. “He called 911 pretending he didn’t know what happened.”
Mavrikis said that even after being arrested, the convicted son tried to exploit his mother who was being beaten.
“He called her while she was in Rikers, violating the order of protection to try to trick her into not coming to court and testifying here to tell everyone what happened to her,” the prosecutor said.
He said: “He told me that he was troubled by the memory of that night. “He can’t even sleep in his bed anymore, he hasn’t done that since he came back from the hospital after the incident, he told me, ‘as a mother I tried, I love my son, I didn’t want this, I tried to help him, I went to support him.
“‘I tried to get him into the plans, I let him stay with me,'” said Mavrikis. “‘He needs help, but I’m also afraid of what he’ll do when he gets out.’ He knows that if he goes out, there is a great risk of harming him and even killing him.”
Argyro Tsintzelis said his mother went to the doctor the day his brother was sentenced, and still needs more surgery, including for his broken ankle.
“It’s the eighth operation, but it may not be the last,” he said.
In court, even the judge got tired of his son’s antics, and cut off his false claims.
“Okay, you’re done,” said Valllone. “You were asking for mercy today, but what I am giving you today is justice, the justice you deserve, the sentence today is for what you did to your mother.
“He always gave you a safe place,” added the judge. “How did you pay him? A life of torture, it ended with you throwing him out of the third floor window. You tried to kill him and failed. Now this poor woman, as you just heard, couldn’t even come to court today.”
In a statement, Queens DA Melinda Katz called the crime “an unthinkable act of violence.”
“We hope that today’s sentence will bring some comfort to Ms. Tsintzelis as she continues to recover from her injuries,” Katz added.
