The heroic Bronx mother who landed on The Post’s front page as “Mama Bear” — when she ferociously fought off the creep who sucker-punched her 4-year-old son in Times Square …
Big Apple crime was too much for this mama to “bear.”— has fled the city with her three cubs.on her son Angel, Rafaela Rivera and her husband, Federico, loaded Angel, now 5, Carmen, 18, and Federico Jr., 15, into their red Toyota Scion and headed south to the “calmer” environs of Myrtle Beach, SC.
“It’s a relief. Everybody is angry in New York, the atmosphere. Everybody has to be on their toes,” Rivera, 43, said this week from her new beachfront digs. “It was the punch and every day waking up, hearing about shootings, killings, it became too much. Rafaela Rivera, left, and sons, Fredrick and Angel Rivera have been enjoying the South Carolina sunshine.“I wouldn’t even turn the news on. My 15-year-old was worried about going on trains,” she added.“Right after Thanksgiving, we decided to give the city until the end of the year,” Rivera said. “But the crime kept getting worse and every morning you would keep hearing about stabbings, killings. robberies. So that was it. At the end of the year, we decided to start a new journey.
A week after trading the Bronx for the sun belt, Rivera said her family is “making new friends and enjoying great southern food, biscuits and gravy and sweet tea.”
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