She was the apple of his eye — and rotten to the core.
Brooklyn dad Michael Joseph remembers his darling daughter kissing him gently one hour before dispatching two knife-wielding gangbangers to butcher him, authorities said.
The 14-year-old let the would-be killers inside their Flatbush apartment Oct. 28 and provided the kitchen knives intended to carve up her sleeping dad, according to authorities.
The terrifying teen convinced the cold-blooded co-conspirators to gut her father by claiming that he raped her, one of the suspects told police.
Joseph, 53, told the Daily News that he awoke to one attacker’s cry for blood as a knife blade plunged into his throat.
“Kill that motherf—er!” howled one of the suspects — a Crips member known on the streets as “Murder.”
Joseph somehow survived the attack in his Flatbush home after the savage assailants stabbed him in the face, chest, neck, arms, legs and back.
Ricardo Leveillez, the on-and-off love of the teen, was busted for attempted murder after being told Michael Joseph raped his 14-year-old daughter, cops say.
A criminal complaint alleges that the teen “had been planning to kill (her father) for a while” before motivating the two men with the incest claim.
Joseph was not charged with any crime, and denied the sexual abuse charge. The News is not identifying the girl because she could be the victim of a sex assault. Police are investigating the claim.
The father, whose body is covered in scars from the attack, said he knows his child tried to kill him — but still considers the girl his “pride and joy.
“I just want what’s best for her,” he said.
A Brooklyn judge ruled that meant a restraining order barring the teen from any contact with her father at his home or work, or via phone, text and e-mail.
The girl was arrested Nov. 11 on 34 charges, including attempted murder, after the midnight murder plot failed.
She was released without bail last Friday to the custody of her mom, who lives in a Manhattan shelter for homeless people with AIDS, the girl’s father said.
Ricardo Leveillez, the on-and-off love of the teen, was busted for attempted murder and remains in Rikers Island on $250,000 bail.
The third suspect remains on the lam three weeks after the gory attack.
Joseph recalled that he and his daughter spent a Sunday together before the attempted murder. “The last time I spoke to her, she kissed me goodnight,” he recalled.
The next thing he knew, the 20-year-old Leveillez and “Murder” were stabbing him with their knives.
The sliced-up victim managed to escape and barricade himself inside the bedroom, a prosecutor said. After hearing the two suspects leave, Joseph emerged to find his wallet and car keys gone.
The daughter and the two men were caught on a surveillance video leaving the apartment building together before her father’s 2012 Hyundai Sonata was stolen, authorities said.
The trio was subsequently caught on surveillance video using Joseph’s stolen debit card to steal $35 cash and charge $61.75, authorities said.
The hot car was later involved in a crash and abandoned — with a knife inside, prosecutors said.
The dad says his once “church-going” daughter started running away at age 12, worked as a prostitute and contracted a venereal disease. She also lied to police about someone raping her at knifepoint, said Joseph.