Ethan didn't have to die
!!!!!!! how could someone treat her son like this??!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AGAINST CHILD ABUSE ! By Bob Greene, CNN Contributor May 23, 2010 -- Updated 1254 GMT (2054 HKT) When 4-year-old Ethan Stacy was reluctantly sent off to spend the summer with his mother late last month, he was in effect being given a death sentence. The child never had a chance. He was dead within two weeks of arriving at the apartment in Layton, Utah, where his mother lived with her fiancé. What could have been done to save him? "I don't have a good answer for you," Layton police Lt. Garret Atkin, one of many law enforcement officers in Davis County, Utah, who are grieving for the boy who lived among them so briefly, told me. The facts of what happened to Ethan speak for themselves: He was living with his father, Joe G. Stacy, in Richlands, Virginia. Stacy and his estranged wife, Stephanie, were involved in divorce proceedings. The divorce was being adjudicated in Florid...