(NY Daily News) A Brooklyn woman with a vise-like grip pleaded guilty on Tuesday to nearly maiming an NYPD cop by squeezing his genitals.
Elen Murell will serve two years in prison under the terms of a plea deal.
She also faces deportation to her native Grenada after she finishes serving the sentence.
Murell, 46, interrupted jury selection in Brooklyn Supreme Court to accept the deal from Assistant District Attorney Lewis Lieberman.
If convicted at trial, she could have faced up to 15 years in prison.
“I think the pressure of standing trial got to her,” said defense lawyer Michael Millet.
Murell, a former home care attendant, was inside her Crown Heights apartment on July 25, 2008, when her teenage son, Kevon, bleeding from the nose, burst through the door with plainclothes cops in hot pursuit.
As the cops struggled to cuff her son, Murel launched herself at Officer Derek O’Sullivan and “grabbed, pulled and twisted” his genitals until he passed out, according to court papers.
O’Sullivan, assigned to the 71st Precinct, underwent surgery to repair a torn testicle.
Millet said he was prepared to argue to a jury that Murell suffered an epileptic seizure while the cops entered the apartment and had no further recollection of the incident.
“It was a highly emotion-charged moment which could have easily triggered a seizure,” Millet said.
Before she was led out of the courtroom, Murell apologized to the cop. O’Sullivan was not there.
