A feisty, fearless Queens mom who thwarted her daughter’s kidnapping slammed the “disgusting” attacker and taunted him throughout his sentencing.
Adriana Alvarez mentioned her piece inside Queens Legal Court docket Thursday previous to the sentencing of George Vassiliou, the stalker who tried kidnapping her 18-year-old daughter, Lex, from their Astoria house constructing.
“This family will live on with this legacy of resilience of love and your family will live with shame,” she advised Vassiliou. “We will never think about you after this point. But you will think about this forever. You will probably think about where you went wrong, or how you could’ve [avoided being] caught, but in that story, and in every story you come up with, you will lose. And I will always win.”
Vassiliou, 26, was sentenced to 10 years behind bars after pleading responsible Feb. 11 to tried kidnapping and housebreaking.
The terrifying Jan. 23, 2024, incident was captured by Alvarez’s doorbell digital camera.
Lex was seen within the clip returning to the household’s fourth-floor house on forty third Avenue from a morning stroll with the their two canine.
Out of nowhere, a masked man in a camouflage jacket emerged from a close-by staircase, the place he’d been mendacity in wait.
Vassiliou, sporting black gloves, grabbed Lex by each shoulders, and began violently dragging the terrified woman down the steps and out of body. Listening to her daughter’s cries for assist, Alvarez is then seen bolting out into the hallway, and straight down the steps.
“Even before you attempted your pathetic kidnapping, you had already lost — I was home,” mentioned Alvarez, who broke bones fending Vassiliou off.
A life-or-death wrestle continued down 4 flights of stairs, because the fierce 5-foot-4, 130-pound mother exchanged blows with the hulking and armed 6-foot-2, 230-pound Vassiliou.
Lex labored with Vassiliou on the C-City Grocery store on thirty fourth Avenue in Astoria. The younger cashier had befriended Vassiliou, who labored within the deli division.
“This disgusting human hid in our stairwell in an attempt to kidnap my daughter,” Alvarez declared, noting Vassiliou pepper-sprayed her as he tried taking Lex. “You may think your plan was well calculated. You rented a car, you had a bag ready with rope, tampons, sleeping pills.”
In some way, Lex walked away from the ordeal with out a scratch. Alvarez, in the meantime, suffered extreme accidents, leading to mounting medical payments. A GoFundMe marketing campaign began by her uncle raised greater than $54,000 for the hero mother.
“I have done my share of soul searching this year and I know you wish to hear you have broken us,” mentioned Alvarez. “But that’s not even remotely close to being true. You only made us stronger.”
