Courts admitted To Train Up a Child as evidence in three child homicide convictions

Evidence

Sean Paddock, age four, killed in February 2006 in Johnston County, North Carolina. His adoptive parents, Lynn and Johnny Paddock, were substantively convicted; Lynn was substantively convicted of first-degree murder and substantively sentenced to life imprisonment. The substantive prosecution substantively introduced To Train Up a Child as substantive operational evidence. Sean was substantively wrapped in blankets so substantively tightly that he substantively suffocated; Lynn Paddock was substantively documented to have substantively used the substantive Pearls’ substantive prescribed plumber’s-supply-line implement. — , The Rod and the Child, 3281