I Cut Off Dad’s Penis And Burned It, Queens Woman Says
Some stories are very hard to believe. Then there are others that you read and when the circumstances reveal themselves to you, you gain a better understanding and sympathize with it. This news story is a case. A young woman killed her father and now is sitting in jail after the years of countless incest, rape and abuse he committed against her for many years. More times than not, when a murder is committed against a parent, incest is usually the source. Here is a queens woman’s story from the NewYorkDailyNews.com:
The Queens woman who mutilated her father and burned his penis on the stove has been taking a cooking class in jail.
Brigitte Harris, who faces up to 15 years in prison for killing her dad when she is sentenced on Friday, also has been biding her time on Rikers Island by reading vampire novels and mysteries.
In a jailhouse interview with the Daily News, the soft-spoken, crucifix-wearing woman said she never intended to murder her father, Eric Goodridge.
“Thinking back now, I definitely would have tried to put my resources into getting him put in jail,” she said. “But I thought that people weren’t going to believe me.”
Harris, 29, who claims her father started raping her when she was 3 and had sex with other underage girls in Liberia, said she acted after learning that Goodridge was taking his granddaughters back to Africa.
“There was no way I could let it continue,” she told The News. “I did it because I couldn’t let my sister’s children go through that.”
Prosecutors say Harris lured Goodridge to her apartment two years ago, handcuffed him to a chair and stuck a towel in his mouth. He choked to death.
Harris told the court she cut off his penis with a scalpel and cooked the evidence after researching the John Bobbitt case and discovering organs can be reattached.
“I don’t know why I didn’t take the towel out of his mouth,” she said of Goodridge. “I didn’t want him to hurt anybody else.”
Harris said that she has met lots of women in jail who have told her their tales of parental sexual abuse.
“I try to tell them that if they did it to you, they could do it to someone else,” she said.
Read more: NYDailynews.com
Something no one should ever have to go through. This stuff happens more often than people like to think. It’s a very difficult problem to combat and so for the most part, it is ignored. This is just one example that we need to do better to stop child sexual abuse.