A video showing a 12-year-old boy from Moche, Peru, doing his homework on the sidewalk, under a streetlight, has been watched several million times on Facebook after being 1 by local police.
Staff at the Moche Police Station first 2Victor Martin late last month, while checking security cameras (监控摄像) . They found a young boy sitting on the sidewalk by 3at night. At first, they thought he was doing something bad, but later they 4he was actually writing something in his notebook, taking advantage of the streetlight overhead. Moved by the boy's 5, the police shared the video on Facebook.
At the time of this writing, Victor's heartwarming and 6heartbreaking story has spread all around the world. Local TV station managed to find the boy and sat down with his mother to learn why he was doing his homework on the street 7at home.
It turns out that the 12-year-old's family is so 8that they couldn't pay for electricity (电) , so they just depended on a 9during the night. Unluckily, Victor Martin could 10finish his homework before the sun went down, and recently he couldn't 11the weak candlelight any more.
"One day, my son said ‘12 I continue with the candle, I will be crazy! I'd better go outside to finish my homework, ‘" Rosa Angulo Cordoba told Panamericana TV. She 13that Victor's neck would often become hard to move because of tilting (倾斜) his head to let the candlelight through.
Victor's mother said that although he 14housework and took care of the family sheep every day, the sixth grader took 15very seriously and got good grades.
