"We are very pleased with this verdict," Aidala told Eyewitness News by phone.
Harris was arrested in July 2007 and later admitted binding and gagging her father and then castrating him after she learned he had been molesting her daughter. Harris claimed she, herself, had been similarly molested for much of her childhood.
The jury apparently accepted the defense claim that Harris's father died accidentally as a result of his being gagged and was not murdered.
The trial, at Queens Criminal Court, lasted three weeks. The verdict was returned early Wednesday afternoon after just three hours of deliberations.
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