I’ve been really saddened by the story of Sean Paddock, the 4 year old Smithfield kid who apparently was fatally abused by his adoptive mother, Lynn Paddock. There is evidence that this mother tied him up, beat him, withheld food from him, and other sick things.

The kid had a tough life. According to the Wake County Child Protective Services statement, Sean was born into a family of domestic violence. He and his three siblings lived in a filthy, often unheated home. Sean’s father was accused of sexual abuse of one of his siblings. Occasionally they would have to stay with relatives, moving in with Sean’s uncle’s family in January 2003.
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