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PVC Jacket A 9-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy said Wednesday that the Johnston County woman accused of killing their little brother two years ago beat them almost every day. Lynn Paddock, 47, is charged with murder in the Feb. 26, 2006, death of her 4-year-old adopted son, Sean. Investigators said Sean suffocated after she wrapped him tightly in a blanket to keep him from wandering around the house at night. Defense attorneys insist the death was accidental, not punishment or discipline. Hannah Paddock, Sean's biological sister who was placed with the Paddock family in 2005 along with Sean and their older brother, David Vorenkamp, testified Wednesday to the abuse she suffered at the hands of Lynn Paddock. Dressed in a denim jacket top and a pink skirt, a bubbly Hannah demonstrated for jurors how she was forced to sit crossed-legged for hours facing a wall. She also said Lynn Paddock once forced her to eat feces after she had defecated in her room – she wasn't allowed to use the bathroom alone. "She made me put it in a bag before, and then I had to get it out and eat it," she said. David, who has since been adopted by another family, spoke primarily in monosyllables when discussing his time in the Paddock household. He said he recalled "the spanking rod" most of all Authorities have said Lynn Paddock beat her stepdaughter and six adopted children with PVC piping. "She was mean," said David, who wore a dress shirt, tie and slacks. "I tried not to scream because I didn't want to get spanked again," Hannah said about being hit with the white rod. In response to defense questions, both children said their adoptive father, Johnny Paddock, was at home when the beatings occurred. Hannah said she wasn't sure if he heard them going on. Kayla Paddock, 11, another adopted child, testified that Lynn Paddock would tape her mouth shut and tape her hands together. She also forced the children to jump on a trampoline for hours and would beat them if they moved their arms or faced the wrong direction while jumping. "She wouldn’t let us play or talk to anyone. I just had to sit or jump on the (trampoline) all day," she said. Kayla also described undergoing the same blanket-wrapping technique that authorities said killed Sean.