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.

[oneesama]

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

[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.

[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.

[brianbwb-2009]

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

Is that what you tell your daughter, or son?

[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...

[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!!

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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!!!!!!!