A young Queens woman accused of killing her abusive stepfather and then — in a move reminiscent of Lorena Bobbitt — castrating him said today she did it so he wouldn’t sexually abuse anyone else.
During her first public appearance in Queens Supreme Court since the 2007 slaying, Brigitte Harris, 28, recounted her terrible childhood — which included beatings and rape — at the hands of her father Eric Goodridge, The Staten Island Advance reported on its Web site.
Harris, who faces murder and manslaughter charges, is accused of murdering Goodridge, 55, after luring him to her Far Rockaway apartment on June 27, 2007.
Goodridge was found inside the apartment handcuffed to a chair and strangled with his genitals sliced off.
Harris said she tried to warn her sister, Carleen Goodridge, who also claims she was sexually abused by her father, to keep him away from her kids.
She said she got the idea to castrate Goodridge from Bobbitt, who famously cut off her husband’s penis in 1993 after she claimed he had been sexually abusing her.
“She had a daughter and I was afraid he was going to molest her, too,” Harris told the jury. “Why would she let him around her kids after knowing what he did to both of us?”