World News for Students of English

22-06-2021 15:00

Sometimes mothers threaten their children. Sometimes it is when they say that they cannot clean or cook because their children are running around, but one mother went too far with this.

An eighteen-year-old mother from Ohio taped her two-year-old son to a wall. She also taped his mouth, so he could not speak. She even put a video of this on social media.

She said that she needed to do some housework. In the video, you can hear the boy trying to cry.

The police received information about the video and arrested the mother. The police also took her son away from her, for his own safety.

Difficult words: threaten (when you try to make somebody scared), tape (fix something with sticky tape), arrest (put in prison), receive (get).

You can watch the original video in the Level 3 section.