Unable to post her $2 million bail and desperate to get her out of jail and home for Mother’s Day, the husband and kids of accused Upper East Side madam Anna Gristina have gone public to raise money.
The family yesterday launched a Web site asking for donations toward her whopping bail, which they blast as “cruel and unusual.”
“The children are distraught,” Gristina’s husband, Kelvin Gorr, told The Post, noting that her 17-year-old son Stefano’s high-school graduation is fast approaching.
“There’s Mother’s Day, the prom, graduation. She should be out. These are once-in-a-lifetime things that she’s missing because of an unjust bail.
“I started the Web site in hopes of raising enough capital to get my wife out of jail,” Gorr said.
Stefano also posted on Twitter yesterday that the family was slated to appear on TV’s “Entertainment Tonight.”
The site, www.helpanna.org, features photos of Gristina with her kids and information about her pig-rescue farm.
It is also linked to “Help Anna” Twitter, Facebook and YouTube accounts.
“We have created our Web site to tell you our story, about how much we miss our mom, and what you can do to bring her back to us,’’ the site’s home page reads. “There is never a day, a morning, an hour, a minute that goes by that we don’t miss our Mother.
“To us, she is the woman who we call for when we are sick, who goes to our school plays and soccer games, who smiles in our eyes. She is Mom.’’
Gristina was arrested on Feb. 22 on a single count of promoting prostitution. Since then, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan has refused to budge on Gristina’s sky-high bail of $2 million bond — or $1 million cash — siding with prosecutors who claim the Scottish-born mom of four is a flight risk.
Gristina lawyer Gary Greenwald has argued that the “outrageous’’ bond is beyond what’s given for mobsters, drug dealers and murderers.
“It’s as if there’s a different justice system for her,” Gorr said.
An offer by Gristina’s previous lawyer, Peter Gleason, to put up his $2 million TriBeCa apartment as collateral fell through last week, Greenwald said.
Five others connected to the Gristina case — including her alleged co-conspirator madam, two accused hookers, a lawyer pal and her purported money-laundering tax man — were released on significantly lower bail or no bail at all.
The family decries the “horrific” conditions of her confinement on Rikers Island and claims that guards have mistreated her, “humiliat[ing] her further by attempting to make her wear only a T-shirt and diaper.”
“While she waits for her case to be heard, she should be home with us,” her kids write on the site. “She hasn’t been convicted of anything.”