A Queens woman who killed the father who allegedly abused her was sentenced to at least five years in prison Friday after being convicted of second-degree manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon.

Brigitte Harris, 29, will serve from five to 15 years in prison. As she has already spent 27 months in jail, she could be eligible for parole in about a year.

Harris claimed she was acting out of rage following years of sexual and physical abuse when she strangled her father, Eric Goodridge, and then removed his penis inside her Queens apartment in July 2007.

"She was tortured. She was beaten until she had open wounds and her family made her get red hot peppers and stick it in the wounds and every orifice of her body," said Arthur Aidala, Harris's attorney. "You know, when they say, 'You do the crime, you have to do the time.' Unfortunately, for Brigitte, it was the other way around. She's been doing time until she committed the crime."

"Yes, there's a tragedy that happened in our family," said a relative of Harris. "We lost a family member and now there's one who has to serve time and that's unfortunate."

"I'm very upset about it. I thought she should be set free," said psychiatrist Dr. Nicki Pallotta. "She's been abused all her life and it's time for her to be able to get her fair share in life."

As they left court, some of Harris's family cast doubt that Goodridge abused his daughter.

"I don't think her father molested her. Even if he molested her, she had all the rights, many years, to get up and do something about it, to say something," said Albertha Clinton, Harris's relative.

Harris testified that the abuse stopped when she was age 17, but she grew worried a vicious cycle of abuse would continue with her father's two young granddaughters.

Her attorney said that Harris knew taking the law into her own hands was wrong, and that she needs to come to terms with killing her own father.

"Brigitte's in a prison in her mind, around her emotions, around her heart," said Aidala. "That there is no work release from that, there is no early release."

Aidala said that whenever Harris is released from prison, she wants to work with other abuse victims.

Harris has 30 days to appeal the sentencing.