One of the sons of Niki Rossakis, jailed for murdering her husband in 1993 in Astoria, N.Y., said he doesn’t want her to get parole because he now believes – after years of thinking otherwise – that she didn’t kill him because he was brutal to her as she claimed.
After spending nearly 20 years in prison she was quoted as saying, to the N.Y. Daily News that she’s praying to be given a second chance from the parole board as well as from her sons so as to bond and reunite with them.
“It’s painful,” she said. “We haven’t been able to spend time as adults and hash this all out in private.” Rossakis, 51, admitted to The News she was a drug addict and not thinking clearly when she shot her husband in the head while he was laying asleep in bed.
John Rossakis had told the newspaper exclusively that he grew up with the belief that his mother shot his father, Gary Rossakis, as a self-defense act, in the family’s Astoria, Queens, house in 1993.
John was 4 at the time and his younger brother, George, was 1. However, it seems that now John, a 24-year-old law student at Seton Hall, is no longer in the side of his mother. The New Jersey man spent several days within the past summer reading the trial transcripts and watching videotapes of his mother being interrogated by police.
He is now convinced she lied about being physically and sexually abused by his father for years before the shooting, he said, and is afraid of her as well.
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