Writing Feature Leads

Hi everyone!! I hope you all are doing fine and having a good day. Thank you for passing by and checking my blog. On today's blog, we are going to do a brief practice on how to create a feature story. I say brief because we are only creating the lead of it based on the following information. 

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."


Yesterday afternoon, the sergeant faced a worrisome call. Shoutings from an anguished woman saying her son was in pain are heard through it along with accusations. An investigation for a case of abuse from... a teacher? Or a lie?



Side Note - I am still looking for a picture to show for this post. 

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