Aice Media Studies

Preliminary Feature Writing Practice: Example 4

On an early afternoon, police received a very disturbing call from a women. The women yelled over the phone, "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 officers were dispatched to her home. The police officers arrived at her home and began asking her 9 year old son some questions. They then go on to inspect the child for any bruises or injuries that had been reported. After inspecting the boy, the officers said to the women, "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 they continued to talk, the boy told them the true reason for the whole situation. The boy came out and told the truth. He told them that he never received a spanking from his teacher. He goes on to admit that he made up that story because he had stopped to play on the way home from school, forgot the time and got home late. So that lead him into creating his lie and told his mother that the teacher had spanked him and kept him after school. His mother and the two officers heard the entire story. His mother decided that she was gonna handle the situation and the officers knew that she would. As the officers left, they could hear his mother giving him the paddle he claimed to have had; and this time he was all red.