MANHATTAN — The pharmaceutical executive who poisoned her 8-year-old autistic son to death inside a Fifth Avenue hotel was sentenced to 18 years in prison Thursday, the Manhattan District Attorney announced.
Gigi Jordan, 54, was found guilty of manslaughter last November after being found guilty of feeding her son, Jude Mirra, an overdose of prescription pills inside a 16th-floor room inside the Peninsula Hotel in 2010.
“No one — and particularly no child — deserves the type of death that Jude Mirra suffered at the hands of his mother,” District Attorney Cyrus Vance said in a statement.
“The poisoning and killing of an 8-year-old boy is a premeditated act of child abuse. After five years, justice has finally been served with today’s sentence of 18 years in state prison.”
Police found Mirra, who was non-verbal, laying unresponsive in a bed surrounded by pills and pill bottles.
Prosecutors described Jordan as coldhearted killer who balanced her checkbook while her son lay dead near her.
Defense attorneys argued that Jordan feared her first husband was going to kill her and her son.
