DAILY STAR
A woman convicted of manslaughter after chopping off her evil dad’s penis is set to open her own food truck.
Following her three year stint behind bars for killing her evil father Eric Goodridge in her New York City, US, flat, Brigitte Harris insisted in an interview last year, “I wasn’t trying to kill him”. Her act of blood-spilling rage erupted when she saw history repeating itself as Goodridge was set to forcibly take his granddaughters back to Liberia.
Both Brigitte and her sister claim to have been sexually abused by their father growing up in Liberia, so when they met him for the first time in years, rage consumed Brigitte at the sight of her nieces sitting on his lap. This only escalated with Goodridge’s decision to take the young girls back to Liberia with him.
Brigitte’s attempts to convince her dad otherwise on July 28, 2007, resulted in her handcuffing him and gagging him with a towel so he couldn’t scream for help. The then 26-year-old pulled out a scalpel and severed his todger before dumping it outside under the Rockaway Boardwalk in Far Rockaway.
She called the emergency services and was taken by her sister to Richmond University Medical Center psychiatric ward, rather than the nearest police station. After being discharged from the psychiatric ward on August 16, 2007, Harris was charged with second-degree and first-degree manslaughter. She said: “I felt that I had to stop him” and “take away his weapon”.
Brigitte has since been calling on public support and generosity to help fund her dreams of becoming a street food chef of West African cuisine. Thanks to 572 donations, she is edging closer towards her goal of £20,000. Brigitte’s GoFundMe page currently stands at almost £15,000 which she says will be spent on getting her business off the ground.
