THE UNBELIEVABLE CRUELTY OF RIO'S ROBBERS IN THE CASE OF LESLIE LIMA DA VITORIA

It is unbelievable what happens in Rio.  But today's news in  the Brazilian newspaper "O Globo" really breaks the heart.  A woman, nurse, who was six months pregnant, was with her husband in their car after coming back from a shopping mall (which I must say I have gone to many times in my life) when they were apprehended by four armed men in two motorcycles.  They wanted their car.  Both Leslie and her husband did not react, and opened their doors to get out of the car and hand it to the robbers, when she got nervous and had difficulty unbuckling her seat-belt,  one of them shot Leslie twice on the head.  They ran away without taking anything.  Her husband rushed her to the hospital, but she was unable to survive the gunshot wounds to the head.  But the doctors were able to deliver her baby, a little girl, who was born three months premature, and is being kept under intensive care at the hospital.  

The robbers escaped and have not yet been caught.  The question in everyone's mind is "why", or at least it should be.  I cannot think of one reason why these monsters would want to injure an innocent woman, who just did what she was ask - get out of the car so they could steal it, and then leave taking only her life, and almost that of her unborn baby girl.  

Leslie was only 32 years old.  She dedicated her life to save the lives of others in her professional career as a nurse.   Both her and her husband were excited for the birth of their first child, and the idea that their lives would be forever changed like this, and worse, that this crime, like many others will either go unpunished or under-punished is extremely hard to live with, at least for me.  Until when are we going to take this?  Until when is Rio going to take this?   We need to stop only caring when it happens to one of our own.  

RIO, BRAZIL:  BASTA!  ENOUGH!