Police Stop Bad People Online

Introduction

Police from Hong Kong and six other Asian countries worked together. They stopped people who shared bad photos and videos of children.

Main Body

Police arrested 326 people in seven countries. In Hong Kong, police arrested nine men. They took 15 computers and eight phones. These devices had many bad photos of children. One man hurt a 12-year-old boy. The man met the boy on the internet. He talked to the boy to trick him. Then he hurt the boy many times. Many people use the internet to hurt children. Some people ask children for photos. Then they use the photos to take money from the children. This happens to boys and girls.

Conclusion

Hong Kong now works with 75 other countries to stop these crimes. People who share these photos can go to prison for a long time.

Learning

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ The 'Action' Word

Look at these words from the story:

  • Stop
  • Work
  • Meet
  • Talk

These are simple actions. In English, we use them to say what people do every day or what happened in the past.

Past Time (The Story) โ†’ Present Time (Now)

Story (Past)Now (Present)
Stopped โ†’\rightarrowStop
Worked โ†’\rightarrowWork
Met โ†’\rightarrowMeet
Talked โ†’\rightarrowTalk

๐Ÿ’ก Quick Tip: To talk about the past, we often just add -ed to the end of the word (like work โ†’\rightarrow worked). But some words are 'rebels' and change completely (like meet โ†’\rightarrow met).

Example from text: "Police arrested 326 people." โ†’\rightarrow This happened already.

Vocabulary Learning

police (n.)
law enforcement officers / people who enforce the law่ญฆๅฏŸ
Example:The police arrived at the scene quickly.
arrested (v.)
taken into custody / stopped and taken to jail่ขซ้€ฎๆ•
Example:He was arrested for stealing.
computer (n.)
electronic device / a machine that can think้›ป่…ฆ
Example:She uses a computer for work.
internet (n.)
global network / online networkไบ’่ฏ็ถฒ
Example:Many people use the internet to shop.
prison (n.)
jail / place where criminals are kept็›ฃ็„
Example:He was sent to prison for five years.