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SMITHFIELD (AP) — A woman beat her adopted children with plastic plumbing pipe and was charged with murder in the death of her 4-year-old son, Johnston County sheriff's deputies said.
Lynn Marie Paddock, 45, was being held in jail without bail Sunday night. Deputies arrested her Sunday after her 8-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son told social workers they'd been hit with a length of PVC pipe as punishment. Deputies and social service workers found severe bruising on their bodies, Johnston County Sheriff Steve Bizzell said.
<snip>...Paddock and her husband, Johnny Paddock, adopted six children and have one biological child, deputies said. The couple run a 12-acre farm outside Smithfield. Lynn Paddock teaches the children at home, Bizzell said....
http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060227/NEWSREC0101/60227004But at least those damn queers can't adopt...:mad: