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I gouged out my eyes because I was afraid I would die in jail

Eyes sparkling in delight and hands together in prayer, Sean Lynch grins into the camera, a boy full of promise with an exciting life ahead of him.

Today he sits in darkness in a psychiatric unit, his eyes gouged out, wrists and throat slashed and his genitals mutilated.

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