Jesus Take The Wheel: Lady Gets Maximum Sentence For Chopping Sexually Abusive Father’s Genitalia Off And Cooking It
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Bridgette Harris concocted a plan and lured her sexually abusive father into a house to kill and dismember him. Bridgette was just sentenced and shown no leniency by the judge, although the jury suggested it:
A Queens judge Friday slapped Brigitte Harris with the toughest sentence possible…… for killing and dismembering her father to avenge years of sexual abuse. Supreme Court Justice Arthur Cooperman sentenced Harris to five to 15 years for the suffocation slaying of Eric Goodridge in her Rockaway apartment on July 28, 2007. Harris admitted plotting to sever her father’s penis with a scalpel by researching the case of Lorena and John Bobbitt. She wanted to prevent Goodridge, 55, from returning to his native Liberia with his granddaughters, she said.
“I never intended to kill him, and I’m sorry for his family’s loss,” she told Cooperman. Cooperman acknowledged the findings of mental health professionals who agreed Goodridge repeatedly sexually abused his daughter from age 3, but he cautioned against victims taking the law into their own hands. “Sometimes the crime itself warrants punishment,” Cooperman said.
The judge also chided jurors for giving in to sympathies for Harris in reaching a second-degree manslaughter verdict that was inconsistent with the facts. Four jurors attended Friday’s sentencing and, in letters, urged Cooperman to set Harris free so she could seek psychiatric care. Harris attorney Arthur Aidala said were it not for the jury, Harris, 29, would probably be spending the rest of her life behind bars. “They handcuffed the judge from committing an injustice,” Aidala said.
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.
Bridgette needs help. Judge, Arthur J. Cooperman and most people don’t take into consideration the hardships African American victims suffer. If she was “right” they would have broken down her history on Nacy Grace and had all kinds of specialist explaing WHY her past fury took control of her.
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THAT’S WHAT SHE GETS! BLACK WOMEN DON’T KNOW BETTER!
did she plead insanity?? bc cooking it is just plain crazy.i understand she should be granted leniency for dismembering him but cooking it takes it to another level.
@ Hannibal :
If u read properly u would c that she cooked it to prevent him from getting it reattached. He was going to take his grandchildren away and she wanted to prevent him from doing the same thing to them or someone else. Some people have no morals and that judge is one of them. Maybe behind closed doors he does the same thing and doesn’t c a problem with it.
@T
WHAT’S YOUR POINT?
The Innocence Project Needs to Read this injustice. This is sick, but she isn’t “right” so off to Jail she goes.
Bossip, the word is “fury”, not “furry”. The mispelling makes the last sentence ridiculous.
Black folks have really lose there minds only God can save us now
Damn
theres no such thing as “right” and “wrong” its all a matter of perspective and in the hands of whom ever is in power. Justice doesnt exist as it should in this world.
looks like judge and jury separated the crime from the reason behind the crime.
hard to find fault with that given that she lured him to his death and cooked his genitalia.
all that time she took researching how to kill him, could have been spent researching how to constructively deal with her abusive past in order to have a more productive future.
I certainly would not want to worry about her in the midst of ordinary societ.
Its funny how people comment on a situation – have you been sexually abused since the age of three ? So if not don’t say that she should be in jail – its obvious she needs some help…and no one said anything about the father going to jail???????? – For years of sexual abuse – they should have dug his dead a@@ up and put him in jail – no d!ck and all.
Sexual abuse is NO JOKE especially at the hands (anyone hands in general)of your own FATHER (incest). Most children if not ALL who are sexually molested, raped, sodomized sometimes even w/objects, shown *****ography and sometimes forced to act out what is being shown…I mean the list goes on and I’m sure she was exposed to many of the listed sick acts.
It seems that and I am shocked that people are condeming the girl. Clearly, she needs mental help for the years of abuse she has enddured and I am pretty sure that if she was a non-black person she would not have gotten the book thrown at her, but mental help.
What she did was sick but what he did to her was MORE SICK! to her killing him (which is not right) was probably nothing to her, since he probably already killed her per se. There is no telling what had occurred she probably confronted her sick father & he probably said something to her that set her off like “you deserved it or you were teasing me” to justify his sick incestual thoughts.
Again, it was wrong for her to kill him, but like most victims of sexual abuse she feared that she might not be believed me, especially if she never told anyone like most do and I know in the black community incest and sexual abuse for some odd reason is still taboo.
Where is the outrage at what this man did to her?
Disclaimer: No one has the right to KILL anyone.
^^^ please excuse my typos.
Some treatment & a SMALL amount of jail time would’ve been the route.(imo) Props to the jury for shot blocking the judge.Um BOSSIP…sexual abuse knows no racial boundaries.It’s bad no matter who it happens to…right? Why do you bring it up for this story?
wow so sick.
but he deserved it for being so abusive
Hannibal you are an idiot!!!!!!!!!
ignore hannibal…remember he is on bossip’s payroll
anyways…this chick is just screwed over all around (no pun intended) soo sad.
white folks have been lost their Gd minds!!
The judge just probably did that cause he was imaging that that was his stick that she put on the stove or microwave lol
That ***** tried to microwave a *****’s *****??? Wtf is wrong with chick’s these days????
Nevermind, she’s black, I rest my case……SMH…
wow, the full maximum sentence?? It’s not like she ate his *****. Then that deserves a full sentence!
Molestation and sexual abuse happen all too often in the Black community. Its either ignored by low self esteem mothers and ignorant family members and/or doesn’t get reported to the authorities. “Uncle Lestor” or “Big Cousin Mike” is scolded by family members, but then he still gets to attend family gatherings and pretend like nothing happened.
It happened to Oprah, Monique, Tyler Perry, and many more black celebs. What is wrong with our community that this is so rampant?? Not only that,but alot of sexual crimes are going on in our community:molestation,rapes,freakin animals and corpses,incest,….
Hannibal,
May God have mercy on her hateful soul
People please READ the story before commenting. Reading is fundamental. The father who molested her since she was 3 yrs old was going to be taking his grandchildren back to Liberia. She cut his ***** off to prevent him from sexually abusing them and she cooked the ***** so that it could not be reattached.
Even though it is wrong to take the law into your own hands, I cannot imagine the emotional torment this woman had. The maximum punishment? Maybe the Judge is a Child molester himself.
she knew what she was doing, she researched it!
the man deserved to be punished — but this is a sick little heffa, make no mistake about it. this wasn’t spontaneous; it was “researched”, planned and executed — “pre-meditated”.
she may not deserve 15 years — but she surely deserves punishment.
“she may not deserve 15 years — but she surely deserves punishment.”
I believe her ‘”punishment” was being incestuously raped from the time she was 3 years old.
@Andromaches
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and she should have exposed that rotten ***** to punishment to the full extent of the law — merely killing him wasn’t enough (which I could truly comprehend she might do in the heat of p*****ion), SHE HAD TO RITUALLY dismember the dude — this goes beyond revenge … way beyond revenge.
IS THERE A STATUE OF LIMITATIONS ON SEXUAL ABUSED?
man this is crazy….she could have fried it too.
You guys still haven’t learned to ignore Hannibal. Some people will never learn. Now back to the story. This is a shameful display and I guarantee you the judge was a freaking child molester himself. People quit thinking this is a racial issue. Yes, child molestation is rampant in the black community (it often goes ignored as others have said), but this is a world-wide epidemic that needs to be dealt with. Frankly, what she did was wrong, but I understand her, and frankly, don’t think she should get any jail time. Her freaking father deserved his ***** and everything else cut off. I HATE CHILD ABUSERS!!! JMO.
@WordtotheWise
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How about that ARMY of damn catholic priests — if all the ex-altar boys started castrating those *****s, the streets would be littered with dried up old 3″ white *****s.
She should have PUBLICY taken legal action to prevent his return to his country, by exposing the dirty ***** for what he was … if all his dirty past had been brought out in court, it would have done more good than this act — because he SURELY has done to others what he did to her.
Did she present proof that he (actually) abused her? For all we know, her idea of abuse, was her father taking away her cell phone for a week. For most black females, memories ofrevoked cell phone privileges tend to fester after a few years…Just sayin’….
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wow, that’s crazy. There is no telling what he was doing to her. In some cultures the women are taught to remain submissive, even through something as tragic as rape. She proabaly felt like she was had no other way out. And if the jury had leniency, the judge shouldve too. But lets be honest, most judges dont give a rats ***** about some woman being sexually abused repeatedly by her dad. Some judges her gravel junkies. The power of pounding the gravel after giving a hard core sentence is like a drug to some of them. She shouldnt have killed him though. That much i will say is true. No s***** bag is worth my time behind bars, thats where i would plan to put him. SMH.
I remembered when this happen. I could never forget that look in her eyes. The judge gave her some much time, cause he know she ain’t playing, you can tell look at her. Best believe she would have killed again.
WOW!! Couldn’t her lawyer have argued some type of temporary insanity defense. People do that type of thing ALL THE TIME and I think it would have fit this case!
FREE Bridgette Harris !!!
I have no sympathy for pedophiles. After cooking it she should have forced it down his throat. This act forever impacts the life of the victim. God bless this young lady and I pray for healing for her life….and all other children who experience this tragic act.
i wish she’d reached out for help before resorting to murder. now, she’s behind bars and will NEVER get help nor will she EVER know true freedom from the heinous crime commited against her. this is sad.
the end never justifies the means, as a former police officer, I can tell you what the judge took into consideration when sentencing her, she had the presence of mind to research her crime on the internet, which demonstrates she PLANNED the crime, she’s lucky she didnt get the death penalty
Good Lord. Where to start? If ever a revolting story there was, what could top this? The father was s***** for molesting his child but tragically, as a result, the daughter’s psyche is severely damaged beyond repair. I mean who does research into that kind of castration/ c@ck stew? I mean – who? Not even a life-long sentence to psychotherapy would help her. She’s too far gone. I’m inclined to believe had she been sentenced by a female judge, her time would have been less. Men don’t play when it comes to the penile area. It’s just a code among us. You just don’t touch the *****.
that goth chick did the right thing..btw it’s not only in our community..mackenzie phillips was on Oprah talking about what her famous dad did and i’m surprised she did do the same
MacKenzie Phillips started consensually boinking her pops at the age of eighteen. That’s a legal adult. There’s something severely askew with her psyche as well and something tells me she’s not being totally forthcoming about her role in that vile relationship.
The really sad part is that she’s been victimized her whole life and the system would rather see her in jail forever than putting her in treatment where she can learn to love herself and have others love her.
It says something about the judge saying sexually abused victims shouldn’t take the law into their own hands but yet our judicial system don’t do anyting to the sexual abusers that mind you will never be healed by any type of counseling or jailtime.Sexual abusers should be locked up and never be let out to roam the streets again.It’s a sickness and there is no cure nor will there ever be a cure.Maybe just maybe that judge feels sometype of way because he’s a sexual abuser himself.Alot of ppl in the judical system (whether it be cops,lawyers,judges etc.)are sexual,mental and physical abusers but use their athority to cover it and scare their victims, so maybe that’s why he gave her such a harsh punishment bc he’s an abuser himself,I’m just saying.
its crazy how we dont understand how serious child abuse is and how it can effect a person later in life. i dont think she deserved any jail time. ppl truly underestimate the effects this has on a person.t he majority of women are sexually abused and its sad that men can do it and get away with it. their inability of downright refusal to control their sexual desires is disgusting. we can cintunue to act like its “taboo” even though it runs rampant in this world but as long as we do that these types of things will continue to happen. it needs to be taken more seriously and these men need to be punished. truthfully if she would have turned him in instead of taking action on her own he probably would have went unpunished for his crimes. its just not taken seriously. i feel bad for her. even if you the judge saw anger in her eyes, does he/she recognize where thats coming from? these events can truly ruin a person’s life. i was molested, thank GOD not that early and not that long but it was for several yrs and i cant say i walked away from it unscathed and the man that did it was never punished for his crimes. its sad but true and we must not be so cold hearted to someone who probably suffered more than many of us can imagine…
Prime example of how the justice system victimizes the victim.
SYSTEM IS NOT DESIGNED TO HELP US!!!!!!!!!
I think she need psychiatric help. What if she get raped in prison? Is she going to cut off tata’s and pearls and pop them in a microwave or scald them in a shower? I’m just saying. She needs help.
Again with the ignorance…Hannibal! You’re worthless! Anyway, yes she was wrong for going as far as she did…but who are we to judge how she deals with her pain and abuse that she has been thru? This man is her father…he sexually abused her for years…there’s no cure for that. Not jail not cooking his *****. Send her to a specialist so she can get the help she is entitled to. Where was justice for her when she needed it? Im not excusing what she did…but I am understanding to what and why she went to drastic measures to stop him. She lost it, but the judge should take notice to that and try to help her not punish her for 5-15 years. That’s overkill…
Another thing, stop jumping on black people as though we are not human. WTF have you done fr society that grants you the position to speak the way you do about another race? Shut up you dumb a*ses…it’s people like you that should have been aborted.
why do people even respond to hannibal
Man this is f…..d up, I’m not excusing what she did but I am empathetic. People need to stop condemning her, she was three when the *****ault started. Someone mentioned may God have mercy on her hateful soul, her father was the hateful one. How could a father do this to his own child? Its wrong, sick, and I’m tired of some of y’all railroading the victim.
Bossip-you did not say anything about Chris Newsome and Channon Christian. Shut up.