A Brooklyn woman an immigrant from the Caribbean Island of Grenada tearfully apologized as she pleaded guilty in a New York court on Tuesday for tearing a cop’s scrotum. Elen Murell agreed to a two-year prison term for the 2008 attack on Officer Derek O’Sullivan in her Crown Heights home.
When she finishes her stretch upstate for felonious assault, she is expected to be deported to her native Grenada, said a spokesman for Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes.
Murell asked Assistant District Attorney Lewis Lieberman if she could apologize to O’Sullivan, an act both unsolicited and unrehearsed, her lawyer Michael Millet said.
After the attack, O’Sullivan suffered a torn testicle that required surgery to repair. The officer was at Murell’s home to arrest her son when she unexpectingly attacked him.
Murrell was facing up to 15 years in prison as her trial began on Tuesday when she changed her mind to spare her family the pressure of the trial, Millet said.