Preliminary Feature Writing Practice 4

 4.The police in this municipality received a call at 3:45 p.m. yesterday afternoon. A woman shouted at the sergeant who answered the telephone. She said: "My son's been beaten. His teacher whipped him this afternoon, and he's all red where she paddled him. Can teachers do that? That's assault and battery, and I want her arrested." Two police officers were sent to the home. They questioned the boy, who is 9 years old. At his mother's insistence, the police officers also inspected the boy's reported injuries. They reported: "We couldn't tell that the boy had been paddled. His fanny didn't look red to us, but we did notice that his pants legs were wet and muddy. As we talked, it became obvious that he boy was lying. He finally admitted that he had stopped to play on the way home from school, forgot the time and got home late. He told his mother that the teacher had spanked him and kept him after school. His mother was there with us and heard the whole story. She said she'd take of the situation, and we're quite certain that she will, as she was very embarrassed. In fact, we could hear her giving the kid a real paddling as we left—and a hard one." 

 

    Kids tend to lie when they don't want to get in trouble with their parents. A concerned mother immediately called the police after hearing that her son had been beaten by a teacher and held hostage after school. As the officers then rushed to the scene to tend to the boys injuries and question him. "it became obvious that the boy was lying." It had became apparent that the by was not being truthful with his mother which caused the situation to escalate. He admitted that he lost track of time while playing after school and lied on his teacher so that he would not be to blame for coming home late. The officers left the home, as the mom was extremely embarrassed about the situation. She gave him a beating for causing such ruckus when he could have been honest with her.