Stop the Slaughter of Children in Brazil by Kathy King Wouk
On December 4th, 1990, the day that my sister was born, Kathy King Wouk wrote an article on the NY Times showing one of the problems that Rio de Janeiro still faces 22 years later; the abduction of people is common on the "favelas". The authorities, sometimes, try to find the bodies only when there is a huge movement and protest of the population of the neighborhood where the body was abducted. In the article, Wouk expresses her wrath by stating impressive number of how many kids are living in the streets and how many are abducted. She also writes about the terrible experience that a mother of two sons lived when two, possibly, policemen went into her house and simply took her sons to the police station for "interrogation". The mother tried to contact the police chief in order to find her kids. However, the slowest police service of Brazil "act" and only after 24 hours one can report that someone is missing. It was too late for the mother, the "death squad" was faster than the police; and unfortunately the mother got the news that her kids were dead.
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