Reports: Daughter Kills, Castrates Dad

Police Sources Tell Papers She Left Notes Charging Sexual Abuse, Then Went To Mental Hospital

(CBS/AP)  Police were hoping to question a woman in the death and possible sexual mutilation of a 55-year-old man in the Rockaways section of the New York City borough of Queens, a department spokesman said Sunday.

The man, Eric Goodridge, died from homicidal violence, including gagging and neck compression, said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the city medical examiner's office.

Sources tell WCBS-TV the victim was castrated.

Police had not released an identification of the woman. Officer Martin Speechley said her identity was known to authorities, and "we're still looking for her."

The New York Post reports the suspect was the man's daughter who was taken to a mental ward Sunday.

The New York Daily News says the suspect was his stepdaughter, seeking to exact revenge for alleged sexual abuse two decades ago. That paper says she checked herself into a mental hospital.

Both papers identify her as Brigitte Harris, 26, who lived in the apartment in which Goodridge was found. Both also say the man was already dead when he was mutilated.

A police report said the victim, who was from Staten Island, was found unconscious in an apartment early Saturday afternoon and died at the scene, but it offered few other details.

According to the Daily News, police said Harris lured Goodridge to her apartment with e-mail messages. She left notes in her apartment accusing Goodridge of sexual abuse.

"This is a homicide that had meaning and reason," one source told the paper.

Newspaper reports, quoting police and witnesses, said the man was found in the top-floor apartment of the three-story house, where the woman was the tenant. Reports said she worked in airport security, but a Transportation Security Administration spokesman denied she was an employee. However, the Daily News said Harris works for a private security company at Kennedy Airport.

Goodridge was a native of Liberia. WCBS-TV's Lou Young got the impression his neighbors on Staten Island did not feel any sympathy for him.

[perimogi]

If you do not already know the defense claim she will make, you are hopeless.

[bekah1974]

If in fact he did sexually abuse her...then he got what he deserved.

[kailumego1]

If what she stated is true, and he did abuse her, she should get off, and I feel absolutely no sympathy for him.........

[freckster]

Now there's a punishment befitting Vick, et al, if found guilty.

[randalds]

Works for me. Good job!

[crystalblue3]

"superchez1" you're repetitiveness is showing! Obviously since you've posted similar comments elsewhere today you've got some serious woman issues.

[markbrookhar]

The recent movie "Hard Candy" depicts a teenage girl who lures an older man to meet with her with flirtatous promises of sexual favors, and then drugs him, kidnaps him, tortures him by making him think she is castrating him while he is conscience, and then blackmails him into killing himself. It is a brutal ugly movie and should never have been made. I hated it. However, I suspect the woman in this news story saw it before killing and castrating her step-father. She mirrors the movie.

I wonder when Hollywood will take responsibility for teaching people how to perform sick acts of crime? I wonder when our government will hold responsible those who "school" criminals, like they hold "terrorists" responsible for holding terrorist training camps?

[randalds]

I wonder when Hollywood will take responsibility for teaching people how to perform sick acts of crime? I wonder when our government will hold responsible those who "school" criminals, like they hold "terrorists" responsible for holding terrorist training camps?
Posted by markbrookhar at 02:16 PM : Jul 30, 2007

As long as it was rated at least an "R", I have no problem with them making a movie such as that. It's better to allow "Hollywood" (though very few films actually come from here anymore) to make any movies they want, with the appropriate warnings and age restrictions, then it is to allow censorship. Any and all censorship to adult audiences, by adults (including reading books, the Internet, etc) is always wrong.

[randalds]

Any and all censorship to adult audiences, by adults (including reading books, the Internet, etc) is always wrong.

Oh and about adults, obviously.

[susanhelit]

If true - he deserved what he got. From the sound of how his neighbors reacted, he wasn't much of a good guy - not that that can ever tell you - plenty of seemingly good guys had another face for their wives and children.

Liberia - wonder if there's some hint of a custom from there being transported here - some kind of archaic tribal stupidity.

[bkylws]

==I wonder when Hollywood will take responsibility for teaching people how to perform sick acts of crime?==

If your description of the movie is accurate, then this news story does not mirror the movie.

superchez1 has a very serious with women. He/she also has heard the term PTSD and is throwing is around like beads at Marde Gras.

[grammawhamma]

Both also say the man was already dead when he was mutilated.

A police report said the victim, who was from Staten Island, was found unconscious in an apartment early Saturday afternoon and died at the scene, but it offered few other details.

The above makes no sense unless it was the police who mutilated him....or am I reading this wrong??

And BTW I liked the movie Hard Candy...but men certainly wouldn't.

[randalds]

And BTW I liked the movie Hard Candy...but men certainly wouldn't.

Posted by GrammaWhamma at 02:56 PM : Jul 30, 2007

I think it would probably bring out the guilty conscience in some men. And their fear of retribution.

;-)

[bereagirl]

He deserved what he got. I have not sympathy for him. He is an animal that deserves death.

[moodonia]

Freud was right, women do suffer terrible *** envy, as evidenced by the glee with which the sisters post their gruesome suggestions for punishment here.

Not one of you knows if he did ANYTHING wrong, and you leap to judgement. His neighbours didnt love him, well thats proof enough to convict him of heinous crimes. He was murdered. He is the victim here. Though naturally a court wont punish a woman.

Women just arent ever responsible for their actions now are they? Straight to the mental hospital, that should play well in the trial. Ever occur that maybe the murderer is just a whackjob? Guess not.

[xzavierbrown]

the wicked and the blasphemous will be punished.

[oxmyx-2009]

If he did it he deserves it.

[elukacek]

He deserves it, hell she should have cut it off first while he was awake! and did it slow and painfully and the hung it in his face! I hate men they only want s e x!

[megd22]

26 yr old female was retaliating for sexual abuse that she endured by her Stepfather two decades ago? 26-20 = sick mf

[jdubs63]

Oh my Oh my my my

[gunownerdan]

I hope New York doesn't start blaming knives.

[boston1954]

I could not have done this, but I can understand why it happened.

[cmp271]

Why did she wait two decades?? Bobbette the guy sooner.
If he was from Liberia he had no respect for women anyway at any age.

[nyckate]

GunOwnerDan -- blaming knives??? What kind of idiot are you?? Oh right - you're one of 'them' - the sobs who think it's copol to sell semit-autos to thugs, gang bangers and drug dealers.

That;s who stands with the NRA today - teh worst gang banger on the street and the moron who needs a machine gun to hunt deer

The last policeman that was killed in NYC was killed with a gun purchased in Virginia. That shall NOT be forgotten.

[tbweb]

Exhibit 'A' taken to a new level! I would not want to be on that Jury!

[mimem]

nyckate... your liberalism is showing!

We HAVE TO support and be card carrying members of the NRA, if we don't, the waco liberals will take our guns. Then only criminals will have guns. With you being in liberal nyc, who voted Billary in twice and she had never lived there....you better watch your back!

[randalds]

I hate the NRA. I think they're run by lunatics who don't represent real concerns of real gun owners. Having said that I still hold with the right of Americans to own weapons for hunting and home defense. I just angry whenever someone equates gun ownership and the right to bear arms, with the loonies at the NRA. All gun owners are not nuts like they are.

[catt42701]

I imagine just what he was in her apartment for justified what happened to him. I would call that self defence and leave it at that. Let the step-daughter try to fine healing in the hospital, if she can and leave her alone to do so.

[michellem99-2009]

I WENT THRU SEXUAL ABUSE AS FOSTER CHILD. I hated the fact I was violated and pushed him away best as I could. They need to be castrated but kill him...no let him live with the label for the rest of his life. Sure the state oaught to. Randy love yer post made sense the one hate NRA..one awful sick girl if you ask me..Hope you do something with her and I don't mean a slap on the hands or arse. I am 52. Too much TV girl..She got time to ponder her actions and no whining. Don't pick on Randy...

[bennyblack1]

mercy;
People have a free will to use weapons either appropriately or inappropriately. If he had been castrated by a pencil, would you ban pencils? There are alcohol related deaths due to accidents. Are you going to ban cars? It's pretty clear that the person who did this was not stable. The person needs to be punished. You don't ban guns, knives, and the like because someone used it to commit a crime. They should be over the age of 18. And if under 18, under parental supervision. They should have gone to a class about gun safety, and should be able to prove it. If you have the right in your state to carry a gun, you should have a license ready to show people upon request. And you shouldn't have any prior offenses that provide evidence of the use of a firearm during a crime.

[michellem99-2009]

you means the courts. As a legally blind person I did not. I will not allow a man to voilate me. No means no. The persons that would NOT keep their human paws off me are dead now. He took them. wHY DID THIS GIRL OF 26 KILL HIM AFTER YEARS AFTER THE FACT..Some are nasty...so fix them thru the right channels.

[bennyblack1]

Guns are a PEOPLE problem. A gun has no thought, feeling, or motivation. Neither does a knife. People have thoughts, feelings and motivations. If there wasn't a gun or a knife, she would've found something else. What if it was a piece of broken glass? Are you going to ban all glass drinking containers? I think not!

[nothappyatall]

"seeking to exact revenge for alleged sexual abuse two decades ago. "

TWENTY YEARS AGO??? geez, get over it!!!!

[grammawhamma]

Both papers identify her as Brigitte Harris, 26, who lived in the apartment in which Goodridge was found. Both also say the man was already dead when he was mutilated.

A police report said the victim, who was from Staten Island, was found unconscious in an apartment early Saturday afternoon and died at the scene, but it offered few other details.


So which paragraph above is correct?? They contradict each other...unless the police were there to witness the mutilation.

[homespunlady]

Behind closed doors some of the worst horrors in the world take place. Either she was crazy to begin with which means she's checked in to where she belongs or she was sexually abused at 6 YEARS OLD. The neighbors seem to know something the question is what.
Pedophiles are SICK and Chris Hanson (To Catch A Predator) is doing this country a favor.

[mo005]

("seeking to exact revenge for alleged sexual abuse two decades ago. "TWENTY YEARS AGO??? geez, get over it!!!!Posted by newster1 at 08:11 PM : Jul 30, 2007) Man oh man you fu-kin crack me the fu-k right up with this one. Think about it. Your supposed dad sneaks in every night and slides his p-cker up yur you know what and tells you its our little secret. Does this maybe for years' And you say get over it. it probably festered on this poor girl brain for all those years, Then when dear ole dad shows up to see you like nothings ever happened. You just snap and think hes gonna try it again( or maybe he did try) I woulda cut the son of a *** into pieces. get over it my a-s

[keithle1]

What goes around comes around. Hope he had lots of fun in his final moments.

[shammy0202]

TWENTY YEARS AGO??? geez, get over it!!!!
Posted by newster1 at 08:11 PM : Jul 30, 2007

You go through it and then say that!!!!!!!

[karen091866]

20 years, days hours or minutes--doesn't matter.
The devastation that molestation causes never "goes away"--ever.
Yeah,sure--therapy helps--but reality, destiny, everything is forever altered.

Shame on anyone who trivializes the trauma.

[kennergirl]

He got what was coming to him. Taking advantage of a young person like that makes me sick. His neighbors apparently didn't care for him too much either. He must have been a real dick.

[nishaboston]

by newster1

Your such a *** dummy. You will and can never really get over sexual abuse. I speak from experience. you are a fool.

[grammawhamma]

TWENTY YEARS AGO??? geez, get over it!!!!
Posted by newster1 at 08:11 PM : Jul 30, 2007

newster1: You are one sick mother fcuker!!

[brianbwb-2009]

So which paragraph above is correct?? They contradict each other...unless the police were there to witness the mutilation.
Posted by GrammaWhamma

The two statements are indeed contradictory, I admit I was kind of hoping he was alive when he was castrated, but the thought of the police doing it is not cool, that should be reserved for the molest victim, not for the jollies of some thugs in blue...

[brianbwb-2009]

TWENTY YEARS AGO??? geez, get over it!!!!
Posted by newster1

Is that what you tell your daughter, or son?

[navyretired2]

"Pedophiles are SICK and Chris Hanson (To Catch A Predator) is doing this country a favor.
Posted by homespunlady at 09:02 PM : Jul 30, 2007"

He sure as he11 is! I've seen that show and 100% support what they're doing. I make sure my kids watch it with me.

Anybody who does these kinds of things deserves death in my opinion...I don't care if it's 20 years after the fact. She was SIX YEARS OLD! True justice knows no statute of limitations.

[slavingforth]

If he molested his step daughter or any child, he deserves just what he got. Why should society use tax money to house and feed him for any reason. He better off now and so is society. My heart goes out to the step daughter and also a high five.

[oneesama]

His punishment was rightly deserved. She has to deal with a lifetime of pain. I say he got off pretty easy.