This is an amazing woman who in 2009 came to be synonymous with fighting back. I was so incredibly touched by her story and jumped at the opportunity to tell you all a bit about her.
When growing up in the outer boroughs of New York Ms. Harris was abandoned by her mother and bounced around amongst friends and family. She had been forced by male relatives to perform sexual acts as a child and once found the courage to confront the family pastor and her father about it. She found no resolution although this was very courageous.
She parted with her family and started her own independent life and financial independence. She occasionally visited with her family and on one visit with her sister and father, she became aware that her father intended to take her sister’s two little girls abroad to his native Africa. Becoming very upset, she asked her sister not to allow it. They had both been forced into sexual relationships with their father and Brigitte just new that that was the real reason for the travel….access to two new, pliable, obedient victims.
When Brigitte could not convince her sister to take a stand and prevent the trip, she took matters into her own hands. She asked her father to visit her in Rockaway, which he jumped at. When he arrived, Brigitte choked and castrated her father when he refused to call off the trip.
She was sentenced to jail and was released in August of 2012. There was much debate over how Brigitte handled her difficulties. There is both legal and moral debate, though she was not sentenced to the maximum.
As a woman, I felt many many things about this case. Honestly, I likened her to someone who was in charge of her own destiny. She was too young to protect herself from CSA(chils sexual abuse)but as an adult, she decided that her nieces would not suffer the same fate.
I look forward to seeing the things she will accomplish now that she lives free and I am proud that she took a stand to protect the young girls close to her. Is that not one of the things we are all here for…to protect the innocent children?
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