Since her death, he's volunteered at women's center Padilla family photo Linda Padilla was 2 when she was sexually assaulted and beaten to death in August 2003. Life for Dr. Thomas Flowers has changed since he helped stabilize battered 2-year-old Linda Padilla before she eventually died from injuries at the hands of her father. Flowers, an emergency-room doctor at Christus St. John Hospital in Nassau Bay, was set to testify against Frank Padilla in his capital murder trial before the League City man pleaded guilty to capital murder and two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child. Since the...