{"id":357695,"date":"2026-09-26T17:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T17:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357695\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T17:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T17:46:08","slug":"brooklyn-woman-accused-of-killing-abusive-boyfriend-made-startling-admission-to-cops-i-love-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357695\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn woman accused of killing abusive boyfriend made startling admission to cops: ‘I love him’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Brooklyn woman who told cops she stabbed her boyfriend to death because he wouldn\u2019t stop beating her<\/a> made another startling admission during the same interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want him in jail. I love him. I\u2019m always going to take him back,\u201d Jennifer Ayala told police after she stabbed Pedersin Pelissier to death in her Flatbush home, law enforcement sources told the News.<\/p>\n

The seemingly contradictory statements highlight an ongoing challenge domestic violence advocates and prosecutors often face as they tackle abuse cases. Pelissier had a lengthy criminal history of domestic violence, with Ayala the target of his abuse.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes those complainants or victims are just very dependent upon their abusers,\u201d said attorney Matthew Galluzzo, a former Manhattan assistant district attorney who prosecuted scores of domestic violence cases.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe it\u2019s financial, maybe it\u2019s emotional or psychological. Maybe they have kids, and they\u2019re concerned about what would happen to her and the children if the abuser is no longer providing for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her interview with police after the Sept. 19 killing, Ayala, 36, told cops she stabbed Pelissier to death with a kitchen knife because she\u2019d had enough of his abuse. Ayala is facing manslaughter charges, accused of stabbing Pelissier twice in the chest inside her home on Linden Blvd. near New York Ave. in Flatbush at about 6:50 a.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been hitting me. He\u2019s done it for three years,\u201d she said. \u201cSo then I said, \u2018F\u2014 it. The police won\u2019t help me, nobody will help me, I\u2019m going to f\u2014ing kill you.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Pedersin<\/p>\n

GoFundMe<\/p>\n

Stabbing victim Pedersin Pelissier. (GoFundMe)<\/p>\n

Pelissier, who is also 36, has been arrested for six domestic violence incidents in which Ayala was the victim since May 2025, law enforcement sources said.<\/p>\n

Four of those cases have been sealed. The other two \u2014 one where he was accused of punching her in the forehead, the other where he was charged with violating an order of protection by showing up at her door, slapping her, kicking her while she was down and spitting at the arresting officer \u2014 were dismissed after she refused to go forward, sources said.<\/p>\n

Galluzzo says many women in Ayala\u2019s position are trapped in a cycle of dependence that abuse victims have a hard time breaking away from.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s usually a witness or a victim who just refuses to cooperate,\u201d Galluzzo said. \u201cIf you go into the courtroom where the domestic violence cases are heard every day. You\u2019ll just see a dozen getting dismissed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAt some point, it has to get better or it gets worse,\u201d he said. \u201cSo you try to steer (the victims) to counselors or to shelters or just any other kind of programming that you hope will make them feel safe being separated from this person, because that\u2019s actually the problem. Is they know they\u2019re not safe with the abuser, but they\u2019re thinking they\u2019re going to be less safe without him sometimes. So you\u2019re trying to dispel that incorrect idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the last three months of 2025, the city\u2019s five district attorneys declined to prosecute 938 cases<\/a> because victims failed to cooperate, the Daily News reported.<\/p>\n

Ayala was arraigned late Sunday in Brooklyn Criminal Court on manslaughter and weapon possession charges, and was released on bail Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n

A man was stabbed to death inside an apartment building on Linden Blvd. near New York Ave. in Brooklyn on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Her younger brother, who didn\u2019t give his name, said her mental health issues likely factored into the alleged killing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope that they can see that she honestly needs help. She doesn\u2019t need jail time. She needs rehab. She needs to be rehabilitated,\u201d he said. \u201cMy sister has been diagnosed with bipolar and manic depression. She really just needs help. She needs to be around the right people.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cWhen you deal with mental health and people are provoking you and provoking you and you have nobody to turn to, sometimes it does end up violent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AA man was stabbed to death inside an apartment building on Linden Blvd. near New York Ave. in Brooklyn on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Several neighbors in her Flatbush apartment building said they could constantly hear Ayala and Pelissier fighting.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I heard the noise coming from that apartment, the abuse was so loud I thought \u00a0I was the one who was crazy,\u201d said one neighbor. \u201cI\u2019ve lived in New York my whole life. Never hear anything like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to think there\u2019s always an alternative to murder,\u201d Galluzzo said. \u201cIt sounds like it was a dangerous situation and I don\u2019t discount that she was probably abused. I think it does show that she\u2019s been psychologically injured, such that the alternative of going to the police was apparently not an option.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s too bad she felt that way,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brooklyn woman who told cops she stabbed her boyfriend to death because he wouldn\u2019t stop beating her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-357695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}