Jesus Take The Wheel: Lady Gets Maximum Sentence For Chopping Sexually Abusive Father’s Genitalia Off And Cooking It

Posted on November 7th, 2009 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: Bolitics, Jesus Take The Wheel, KKK, News, One-Time

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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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  • Hannibal

  • Hannibal

    THAT’S WHAT SHE GETS! BLACK WOMEN DON’T KNOW BETTER!

  • lollipoplollipopohlollilollipop

    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.

  • T

    @ 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.

  • Hannibal

    @T

    WHAT’S YOUR POINT?

  • Kellie

    The Innocence Project Needs to Read this injustice. This is sick, but she isn’t “right” so off to Jail she goes.

  • deesac

    Black folks have really lose there minds only God can save us now

  • Raven Saves

    Damn

  • Hannibal SuX @$$

    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.

  • memchee

    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.

  • ls

    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.

  • Ms.Ej

    ^^^ please excuse my typos.

  • Silent Swagg

    wow so sick.
    but he deserved it for being so abusive

  • Jasmine

    Hannibal you are an idiot!!!!!!!!!

  • http://perryone779@yahoo,com rose by any other name #9304026339482056536 ™

    white folks have been lost their Gd minds!!

  • love me love me not

    The judge just probably did that cause he was imaging that that was his stick that she put on the stove or microwave lol

  • Daywalker(I can pass anything on the road but a gas station!!!)

    Nevermind, she’s black, I rest my case……SMH…

  • Annonymous

    Hannibal,
    May God have mercy on her hateful soul

  • Asia

    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.

  • dia

    she knew what she was doing, she researched it!

  • Redbone_Darkbutt_Black_White (It’s just coochie)

    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.

  • Redbone_Darkbutt_Black_White (It’s just coochie)

    @Andromaches
    +++++++++++++
    and she should have exposed that rotten bastard 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 passion), SHE HAD TO RITUALLY dismember the dude — this goes beyond revenge … way beyond revenge.

  • Queenb2001

    IS THERE A STATUE OF LIMITATIONS ON SEXUAL ABUSED?

  • steroid_arnold

    man this is crazy….she could have fried it too.

  • Marquis de Sade

    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’….

  • Tiger’s Eye

    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.

  • Po’Sha

    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!

  • Laurie Farmer

    FREE Bridgette Harris !!!

  • Stephanie in TeXXas

    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.

  • just us

    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

  • funny gal

    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

  • Mock Rock Star

    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.

  • love me or hate me!

    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.

  • t

    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…

  • lawd da mercy

    Prime example of how the justice system victimizes the victim.

  • KEEP IT REAL

    SYSTEM IS NOT DESIGNED TO HELP US!!!!!!!!!

  • DvynneDesire1982

    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.

  • MSTATUM80

    why do people even respond to hannibal

  • BBBEE25

    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 assault 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.

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