Four questioned in horrific beating death of Brooklyn toddler
BY MIKE JACCARINO, ALISON GENDAR and LEO STANDORA
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Saturday, June 7th 2008, 4:00 AM

The 3-year-old son of a drug addict was sodomized and beaten to death Friday in his godmother's Brooklyn apartment - where he had been placed for his safety, police said.

Paramedics found little Kyle Smith lifeless and covered with cuts and bruises when they got to 129 Patchen Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, witnesses said.

"The kid was really messed up," said Greg Daniels, 22, who lives nearby and saw the toddler brought out. "He was pale and there were cigarette burns and bruises on his arms and back."

Investigators said the child also had a broken leg and had been sodomized with a stick before his death.

Detectives said the godmother, her live-in boyfriend and two other adults were in the fourth-floor apartment when the boy was fatally injured. All were taken to the 81st Precinct stationhouse for questioning.

Building super Gail McNally, 50, described Kyle as "a happy kid, or at least he looked happy."


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