Eight years after NYPD Detective Miosotis Familia was tragically killed in the line of duty, her daughter Genesis Villella is still fighting for the pension and benefits she believes her family was promised.
She told News 12 The Bronx recently that efforts to get her mom’s pensions has come at great personal cost.
Villella, who was just 20 years old when her mother was ambushed and shot in the Bronx in 2017, has been raising her twin siblings ever since — giving up her education, career, and twenties to become their legal guardian. Now 28, she has not received a single cent from her mother’s pension…