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Jail for Flowers
June 7, 2012 permalink
Emily R Zavitsanos sent a floral arrangement and a card to the Pennsylvania home where her son lived with his adoptive parents. She has been sentenced to a term of one to seven years in jail. It takes steel bars to keep this mother from caring for her child.
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Woman sent to prison for stalking family who adopted her son
A 57-year-old former Lebanon woman convicted of stalking a South Londonderry Township family who had adopted her son has been sentenced to state prison.
Judge Samuel A. Kline on Wednesday sentenced Emily R. Zavitsanos to state prison for 15 months to seven years and ordered her to pay a $500 fine for stalking. A jury convicted her at an April 18 trial.
Police said Zavitsanos made contact with a family that she had previously been convicted of stalking and harassing in 2008. According to court records, Zavitsanos is the biological mother of a boy that the family adopted after the child had been placed in foster care in 2003.
The court terminated her parental rights after a hearing on April 26, 2004, according to court records.
She was arrested after she sent a floral arrangement to the family's home and a card to the boy on May 14 last year.
Source: Lebanon Daily News
On Wednesday, a jury in Judge Samuel A. Kline's courtroom convicted Emily R. Zavitsanos, 57, Hagerstown, Md., of stalking a South Londonderry Township family who had adopted her son.
Police said Zavitsanos made contact with a family that she had previously been convicted of stalking and harassing in 2008. According to court records, Zavitsanos is the biological mother of a boy that the family adopted after the child had been placed in foster care in 2003.
The court terminated her parental rights after a hearing on April 26, 2004, according to court records.
She was arrested after she sent a floral arrangement to the family's home and a card to the boy on May 14 last year.
Kline set sentencing set for June 6.
Source: Lebanon Daily News
