SALEM – A Superior Court judge has ordered the suspended Peabody police officer charged with beating his elderly mother in 2004 to be sent to Bridgewater State Hospital for a 30-day evaluation after he failed to show up at a court hearing last week.After failing to appear in court, George A. Sideris, 36, was found in his apartment with four or five slashes to his abdomen.Sideris, wearing a hospital-issued bathrobe, pants, top and white slip-on sock slippers, appeared in Salem Superior Court Tuesday accompanied by two Peabody police officers to remove his default warrant issued last week. He apparently had been transported from Salem Hospital.Assistant District Attorney Karen H. Hopwood told Judge Howard J. Whitehead that Sideris failed to appear for a scheduled court hearing last Wednesday to set a competency hearing date. Judge David A. Lowy assumed Sideris got the court date mixed up, and gave him another day to appear, but he failed to appear and Lowy issued an arrest warrant that morning.About 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Peabody police, along with Superior Court Probation Officer Jeff January, went looking for Sideris at his residence at 59 Walnut St., Apt. 8, Peabody, Hopwood said.When they first knocked at the door asking to enter, Sideris said “no” and refused to open it to allow officers inside his residence.Officers could hear furniture being moved against the door and proceeded to get a key to open it.Police pushed the front door open and, once inside, found Sideris in the bathroom standing on a chair in the shower and holding two knives, a military knife and a Smith & Wesson homeland security knife, and had self-inflicting four or five slashes to his abdomen.Sideris told one of the officers he would not drop the knives because he didn’t want a “guardian” appointed for him.The incident went on for about 20 minutes with police trying to convince Sideris to surrender until police eventually used a Taser gun on him to bring Sideris down, Hopwood said.Sideris was taken to Salem Hospital where he underwent surgery for the lacerations to his body.Hopwood explained that when Sideris was sent to Bridgewater State Hospital last year, psychologist Dr. Katherine Herzog reported he need not be confined and he is not a danger to himself or anyone else, but Hopwood emphasized “clearly he is a danger to himself and others,” as she asked Whitehead to revoke his bail conditions, be held without bail and sent back to Bridgewater for a further evaluation.But defense lawyer Steven J. Rappaport said they have already scheduled a competency hearing for June 12 and that they could set something up so he won’t be a danger to himself, while adding that he “didn’t want Mr. Sideris hurting himself.”He went on telling Whitehead that the commonwealth had a subsequent re-examination by their medical expert Dr. Malcolm Rogers and he was “not surprised” by Dr. Roger’s report, which is privileged information and not for public viewing.Rappaport said that since he has known Sideris, he appears to be a “gentle” man, saying he could not explain why he did not show up last week, despite numerous calls left on his cell phone.Rappaport asked Whitehead to appoint another advocate, reminding Whitehead again that he and Sideris do not communicate because of a client breakdown, explaining that he needs someone he can talk to.”This man can not stand trial,” Rappaport insisted as he argued for an advocate insisting, “He’s not competent.”The judge declined to replace Rappaport at least not until the competency hearing set down in June, which Whitehead noted will probably suspend the need for an attorney for some time.Until then, Sideris will be confined without bail.Sideris is charged with beating his then 73-year-old elderly mother Melpomeni Sideris into a coma on Thanksgiving Day in 2004 at their Ellsworth Road home in Peabody that they shared.Mrs. Sideris, now 77, was in a coma for several weeks following the incident and eventually emerged, but never returned home.