As many of you know I was greatly affected by the story of Ethan Stacy. Ethan was a 4-year-old little boy that the family court system let down to the point he was horrifically tortured to death by two monsters by the name of Stephanie Sloops (Ethan’s egg donor) and Nathanael Sloops. The abuse this little boy suffered in the two weeks leading to his death is, on its own, too much to consider without weeping. But when you couple that with the fact his biological father, Joe Stacy, had told the family court judge in Virginia that he was afraid for his son’s welfare if he were relinquished to Stephanie due to her unstable nature, then living in Utah, and then basically forced by the court to allow Stephanie her summer visitation with Ethan, made it more tragic than most could handle.
If anyone can say there is “good news” in a situation like this, I guess they would be talking about a Utah state law that was passed after 10-year-old Shelby Andrews was abused to death by her father and stepmother in Syracuse, Utah. When Shelby died at the hands of these two monsters, Davis County prosecutors couldn’t charge them with aggravated murder due to the way the laws were written at the time. Shelby’s Law made “child abuse that leads to a death” a potential death penalty case. The Sloops now could get the death penalty if convicted. They are the first people to have Shelby’s Law used against them.
Ethan’s tragic, avoidable and horrific death has now led to online petitions that are aiming to get a similar law passed nationwide. They are calling it “Ethan’s Law”. We’ve all asked ourselves what we can do to assist in correcting the situation. This is one way. You may access the online petition here:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ethanslawpetition/
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References:
Probable Cause document against Stephanie Sloops
Probably Cause document against Nathan Sloops
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