Sean Paddock's short life shows system's flaws
The death of 4-year-old Sean Paddock, who died at the hands of his adoptive mother, shows how the system can fail the children it was meant to protect.
Paddock will pay for son's murder
A jury finds Lynn Paddock guilty of first-degree murder and child abuse. She will serve a life sentence for the death of her adopted son.
Jury sifts two versions of Paddock
Jurors debated Lynn Paddock's fate for little more than an hour Wednesday afternoon; they'll return to their deliberations at 9:30 this morning. She is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her 4-year-old son, Sean.
Paddock case to go to jury
If jurors think Sean Paddock's death amounted to first-degree murder by torture, Lynn Paddock will spend the rest of her life in prison.
Paddock tells of own pain
Lynn Paddock, the Johnston County mother accused of killing her adopted son Sean and abusing her other children, took the stand to defend herself against a first-degree murder charge.
Where was Sean Paddock's father?
Sheehan:At the trial of Lynn Paddock, accused of abusing and finally murdering her adopted 4-year-old son Sean, the stories of her surviving children have been horrifying, unbearable.
Pediatrician tells of boy's suffocation
A forensic pediatrician tells jurors about the agony 4-year-old Sean Paddock must have endured in the moments before he died.
Doctor says Paddock boy was tortured
Dr. Sharon Cooper testified that Lynn Paddock's discipline of her children was sadistic abuse. She was the last witness for the state in its case.
Sean Paddock's last hours described
Jurors inspect urine-soaked blankets and a blood-stained sheet that were in the attic bedroom where Sean Paddock had slept the night he died.
Testimony chronicles day of Sean's death
Lynn Paddock's four youngest adoptive children barely uttered a word when social worker Heather Binder drove them to the hospital the day their little brother died, Binder testified Tuesday.
Stranger supports Paddock witness
A woman with her own dark secret comforts victim's sibling. Joyce Burkett wishes she'd been brave enough to talk about the abuse she endured as a child.
Paddock jury won't hear call from daughter
Tami Paddock testifies that she told her mother she needed to know why her little brother was dead, but a judge ruled that the jury cannot hear the call she made to her mother, Lynn Paddock, who has been charged with his death.
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