Boy Is Taped to a Wall – level 3
22-06-2021 15:00
Sometimes mothers threaten their children, such as when they cannot clean or cook because their children are running around. One mother took this too far.
An eighteen-year-old mother from Ohio taped her two-year-old son to the wall with his mouth taped shut, so she would be able to do some housework. She even put footage of this on social media. At one point of the video, you can hear the boy trying to cry.
The police received a tip-off about the footage and arrested the mother. The police took her son into custody for his own safety.
Difficult words: threaten (when you try to frighten somebody), footage (a video), tip-off (secret information given to the police), take intocustody (when parents do not look after their child well and someone else must do it).
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