WARNING: These documents contain graphic and disturbing information. Read the probable cause documents for Stephanie Sloop and Nathan Sloop.
FARMINGTON — The Davis County Attorney’s Office plans to file formal charges on Friday against the stepfather and mother of 4-year-old Ethan Stacy, whose body was found buried by Powder Mountain.
A press conference will be held at 11 a.m. Friday regarding
what the exact charges will be, said Davis County Attorney Troy
Rawlings.
“We are truly sorry for the family of Ethan Stacy and will be mindful of them as this case progresses,” Rawlings wrote in press release on Wednesday.
An autopsy of the boy’s body was done Wednesday at the state medical examiner’s office.
The county attorney’s office plans to file charges in 2nd District Court against Ethan’s stepfather, Nathanael Warren Sloop, 31, and Ethan’s mother, Stephanie Christine Sloop, 27.
The two are currently booked in the Davis County Jail. Nathan Sloop is booked in aggravated homicide, felony child abuse, obstruction of justice, desecration of a corpse and damaging a jail. Stephanie Sloop is booked on felony child abuse, obstruction of justice and desecration of a corpse.
According to a clerk at the Davis County clerk/auditor’s office the two were married on May 6 at the Davis County Memorial Courthouse.
A massive search for the boy began early Tuesday morning after his mother called police at 11:55 p.m. Monday. She reported her son had left the apartment sometime after she tucked him in bed at 9 p.m. Monday, police said.
That report turned out to be false.
Ethan’s biological father, who lives in Virginia, has been notified of the boy’s death, police said.
Ethan came to Utah on May 1 to spend the summer with his mother.
The Sloops became “persons of interest in the case” after their stories kept changing, police said.
According to the state court’s web site, Nathanael Sloop has a number of convictions, mostly drug related, with the last one in 2003.
He was convicted of third-degree felony possession of a controlled substance in 2003 in 2nd District Court in Ogden.
He was placed on probation until May 2005, when the court reduced the third-degree felony to a class A misdemeanor and terminated his probation.
More than 40 officers from multiple agencies were involved in searching for the boy until 11 a.m. Tuesday, when police received information of “a possible burial site,” police said.
The Sloops at that time were at the Layton police station for questioning.
Police said the terrain in the canyon and the weather made it difficult for investigators to process the burial site. The Weber County Sheriff’s Office assisted the Layton Police Department in locating the boy’s body.
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