A six-year-old who saw her mother brutally gunned down on the streets of Brooklyn two years ago has written a letter to first daughters Sasha and Malia Obama asking them for support.

"Hi Malia and Sasha," Bianca Perez wrote in her letter to President Obama's 11- and eight-year-old girls. "Two years ago, I lost my mommy. She was killed by a bad man in front of me. ...

"I'm writing this letter to see if you can ask your daddy to help me and my daddy," Bianca wrote in pencil above a drawing of Obama and his girls.

Bianca wrote the letter with the help of her father, Joseph Perez, 31, last week, according to the New York Daily News. They sent the letter over the weekend.

Her mother, Christina Scarabaggio, 27, was shot to death by an abusive boyfriend in September 2007 as she tried to shield Bianca, then four, in front of their Bay Ridge home.

Christopher Flynn, 27, shot Scarabaggio twice in the back and once in the face before turning his .380-caliber handgun on himself.  Bianca has been living with her father on Staten Island ever since. Like many New Yorkers, he has fallen on hard times.

He's a mover and a union member, but work has slowed to a trickle in the past few months. He owes his landlord $3,800.  His hours at work have been dwindling, and he hasn't been working enough to qualify for health care, he said, so Bianca hasn't been able to go to her therapist or dentist.

The city's Administration for Children's Services gave him a couple of beds, he said.  His luck turned worse last month, when his sister told him she would no longer be able to pick up Bianca from school because she had to get a job. Perez said he has no choice but to pay for day care when he's working.

"I really don't know how I'm going to do all this," Perez said. "This week, I just worked one day."

He said his daughter still has dreams about her mother's killing but doesn't like to talk about it.

Bianca said she often thinks about how her mom used to read books to her before bed. "Sometimes I have dreams about my mom," she said. "She's singing, 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.'"

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You know why the illegal aliens are doing those jobs. Because crooked white politicians brought them over here to vote republican to keep them in office as long as they did. And a lot of people don't know that. Have you ever noticed that illegal akiens vote republican it's a conspiracy. That's why these crackers mad at President Obama because now he has the juice and he know the tricks of the trade now. He know what they know and yall crackers mad as he!!.

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Ann38
October 27, 2009, 2:42 pm
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I think the problem is that a lot of kids (including the children of wealthy parents) don't have parents who instill in them the idea that all honest work is honorable, even if it entails physical labor. House cleaning, sweeping a street, mowing lawns, or shoveling driveways after a snow storm are out of the question for them. It's kind of sad. Physical labor would provide a lot of kids the exercise they need so badly. The more kids exercise, the more they stay out of trouble.

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CAmira
October 27, 2009, 1:33 pm
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What needs to be done is to get these teenagers who are bored and FORCE them to work, instead of standing around after school. It dont gotta be some big-time job, it could be landscaping, sweeping the streets of garbage, removing grafitti, ANYTHING. That's what we should be encouraging, as the President has too much on their plate as it is.

Too many of our youth are bored, and should be doing the jobs the illegal aliens are doing.
Why are they NOT doing these jobs, is my question?

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A_day_in_the_life
October 27, 2009, 12:42 pm
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Violence in poor neighborhoods and inner city goes hand in hand. It will only stop when poor people stop victimizes other poor people and we start to value the life of everyone irregardless of thier economic status. The Obamas nor their children cannot do anything and why would you want to subject a child to this. Why make your nightmare hers... I say turn to your community and elected officials in your district, be vigilante about ending crime, drugs, STDS, teen pregnancy..It is the only thing that is going to help.

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Broughtwaprice
October 27, 2009, 11:32 am
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This is very sad and unfortunately, this is same story being played out across the country.
No, our President cannot do it all..as a people we have to help each other.

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Greenp628
October 27, 2009, 11:05 am
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The article doesn't state whether or not the man is receiving food stamps, but the loss of income from his job and the fact that he has a little girl to raise should qualify him (I'm not an expert, though). It seems to me that if the recent immigrants in my neighborhood can get food stamps for their children, and I see this every time I grocery shop, then a working poor American father should be able to get some help too. And maybe someone else could establish a legitimate fund to help this family. I would probably donate something.

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CAmira
October 27, 2009, 10:15 am
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This is a time when we as a community should pull together and****ist this family. If everyone helped someone else by feeding, clothing, or from a monetary prospective there would be fewer hungry families. Mr. Tom Joyner, and staff how can we help this family? Mr. President cannot do everything. We as the people need to stand up and help.

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Virtuous7878
October 27, 2009, 9:04 am
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