4 children taken from ‘inhuman’ home

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'LOWELL - Police investigating an anonymous tip Thursday discovered a naked 5-year-old boy, covered in feces, locked in an attic where the only window was nailed shut and the temperature had climbed above 100 degrees, police said.

The boy’s mother, 27-year-old Kristin Paquette, whose second-floor apartment was buried in so much trash that officers could not see the hallway floor, told police she locked the boy in an attic bedroom because she could not control him and he would “interrupt [her] cleaning,’’ according to a police report.

The boy’s 6-year-old brother told police that his sibling “was bad, so mommy put him upstairs,’’ something that happens “a lot,’’ the report says. And Paquette’s children told police, “Mommy does this when she gets angry,’’ prosecutor Dan Harren told a judge yesterday during her arraignment in Lowell District Court.'