2 images emerge of foster mother,Discipline is focus in her murdertrial
2 images emerge of foster mother Discipline is focus in her murder trial http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1083734.html Mandy Locke, Staff Writer SMITHFIELD - A jury will be asked to decide whether Lynn Paddock was a deeply religious but overwhelmed mother or a deceptive woman who tormented her brood of adopted children. The two images of Paddock emerged Friday afternoon during opening statements in her first-degree murder trial. Paddock is charged in the death of her 4-year-old adopted son, Sean. The boy suffocated after being bound in blankets in his family's farmhouse outside Smithfield in 2006. Johnston County Assistant District Attorney Paul Jackson said jurors will weigh a case of child abuse of immense proportion. Swirling around it, he said, were lies that tricked the social workers who entrusted Paddock with foster children. "This case is about what lies beneath the deception," Jackson told a Superior Court jury. "It took the death of a 4-year-old child to expose the truth, to pierce the veil of deception she coated her family with." The oldest of Paddock's children are expected to tell jurors next week about the unorthodox discipline they met in the home. In motions heard in advance of the jury being seated, the children told a judge that Paddock beat them with plastic plumbing supply line, duct-taped shut their mouths and forced them to exercise on a miniature trampoline for hours on end. During opening arguments, Paddock's attorney, Jack O'Hale, tried to shift some responsibility to Paddock's former husband, Johnny. O'Hale said Johnny Paddock helped his wife settle on a method to discipline their children. They turned to the advice of Michael Pearl, a Tennessee evangelist who writes books and disseminates newsletters about disciplining submissive, God-fearing children. "They embraced his philosophy," O'Hale said. "Mr. Pearl teaches that when you discipline a child, you don't use your hand because that's an implement of God." Pearl could be called to testify in Paddock's case next week. Jackson denounced Johnny Paddock during his opening statement but asked jurors to stay focused on Lynn Paddock's treatment of the children. "The evidence will show that Johnny Paddock failed miserably to protect these children," Jackson said. "There's no doubt about that. He had to have known about some of what was going on." Johnny Paddock has not been charged in Sean's death or in the abuse of their other children. Jackson argued that Lynn Paddock's abuse worsened over time, as she and her husband adopted more and more foster children. The Paddocks adopted Sean and his older brother, David, and sister, Hannah, in 2005. "In 2005, that's when things go from dangerous to deadly," Jackson said. "The control becomes obsessive. The anger is constant." O'Hale argued that Paddock was a simple woman with simple goals in life. A foster care child herself, she craved a stable family. "She was a woman who wanted nothing more than to be a good wife, nothing more than to be a good mother and did the very best she could in accordance with her beliefs and that of her husband's to take care of her seven children," O'Hale said. Jurors will begin hearing evidence in the case Tuesday morning. or (919) 829-892 An Inconvenient Truth about Child Protective Services, Foster care, and the Child Protection "INDUSTRY" Child Protective Services Does not protect children... It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even killed at the hands of CPS. every parent should read the free handbook from connecticut dcf watch... http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US These numbers come from The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington. (NCCAN) Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS Perpetrators of Maltreatment Physical Abuse CPS/Foster care 160, biological Parents 59 Sexual Abuse CPS/Foster care 112, biological Parents 13 Neglect CPS/Foster care 410, biological Parents 241 Medical Neglect CPS/Foster care 14 biological Parents 12 Fatalities CPS/Foster care 6.4, biological Parents 1.5 Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per 100,000 children. CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold parents too. No judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty of more harm and death than any human being combined. CPS nationwide is guilty of more human rights violations and deaths of children then the homes from which they were removed. When are the judges going to wake up and see that they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when children are removed from safe homes based on the mere opinion of a bunch of social workers. THIS IS AMERICA'S HIDDEN HOLOCAUST Currently Child Protective Services violates more constitutionally guaranteed liberties & civil rights on a daily basis then all other agencies combined, Including the National Security agency/Central intelligence agency wiretaping programs… THE CORRUPT BUSINESS OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES BY: Nancy Schaefer Senator, 50th District of Georgia http://www.senatornancyschaefer.com/...s.php?filter=6 This is Child Protection? By Gregory A. Hession, J.D. http://www.jbs.org/node/4632 Mercenary Motherhood: "Memoirs of a Babystealer." http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...nion-rightrail FOSTER CARE IS A 80 PERCENT FAILU. A Brief Analysis of the Casey Family Programs. Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study. By Richard Wexler http://www.nccpr.org/reports/cfpanalysis.doc HOW THE WAR AGAINST CHILD ABUSE BECAME A WAR AGAINST CHILDREN http://www.nccpr.org/issues/1.html Adoption Bonuses: The Money Behind the Madness DSS and affiliates rewarded for breaking up families By Nev Moore Massachusetts News http://www.massnews.com/past_issues/...May/mayds4.htm A recent study has found that 12-18 months after leaving foster ca 30% of the nation’s homeless are former foster children. 27% of the males and 10% of the females had been incarcerated 33% were receiving public assistance 37% had not finished high school 2% receive a college degree 50% were unemployed Children in foster care are three to six times more likely than children not in care to have emotional, behavioral and developmental problems, including conduct disorders, depression, difficulties in school and impaired social relationships. Some experts estimate that about 30% of the children in care have marked or severe emotional problems. Various studies have indicated that children and young people in foster care tend to have limited education and job skills, perform poorly in school compared to children who are not in foster care, lag behind in their education by at least one year, and have lower educational attainment than the general population. *Casey Family Programs National Center for Resource Family Support 80 percent of prison inmates have been through the foster care system. The highest ranking federal official in charge of foster care, Wade Horn of the Department of Health and Human Services, is a former child psychologist who says the foster care system is a giant mess and should just be blown up. http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=2017991 Four rigorous studies have found that at least 30 percent of America’s foster children could be home right now if their parents had decent housing. This study found thousands of children already in foster care who would have done better had child protection agencies not taken them away in the first place. Front-page story in USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...m?csp=34#Close Read the studies online. Casey "alumni" study: "Improving Family Foster Ca Findings from the Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study," http://www.casey.org/Resources/Publi...lumniStudy.htm MIT study: "Child Protection and Child Outcomes: Measuring the Effects of Foster Care," http://www.mit.edu/~jjdoyle/doyle_fo...arch07_aer.pdf Texas comptroller's "Forgotten Children" reports: www.window.state.tx.us/forgottenchildren The bottom line? - Child Protective Services and the Foster Care system for the most part turns out young adults that are nothing more than walking wreckage... CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CONSTITUTIONALLY GUARANTEED LIBERTIES & CIVIL RIGHTS ON A DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WIRETAPPING PROGRAMS.... CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT FAMILIES YEARLY NATIONWIDE AND COMING TO YOU'RE HOME SOON... BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF REFORMING OR ABOLISHING CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ("MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.") THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEY ARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION... |
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