Of course Ethan turning on the water was a lie--- she said that's what NS told her. She also said she believed NS burned him, and she then described the type of burn injuries found in children placed into scalding water. I don't think she was smart enough to know that description would match typical burns found in such situations. What I posted above about the feces is my theory on how feces came to be not only on surfaces in the bathroom (and NS) but in his mouth. I think it happened long before he died, probably on Thursday or Friday.
by that point in time he would be lucky to even be able to turn his head let alone climb into a tub and turn a faucet handle.
I go back to this point: WHY did Stephaniefreakingsloop even TAKE those pictures that would incriminate her in the future???? For example: Ethan goes back home from the summer and says he was hit and than says mommy took my picture.
TWO DAYS AFTER THE JAW PICTURE they are locking him in his room while they go get freaking married. Why so early? What was the change of plans???? Why get married before the date you set on your KNOT PROFILE?
I think that early on beating was the point of no return for them and they had to keep going with it. Perhaps they thought a marriage would help them in the long run. Either way, this child was obviously beaten from the second his Daddy walked away from him... viciously and unmercifully.
I wouldn't be surprised if the first beating is what rendered the head trauma either. That picture taken on 4 May was very telling of earlier trauma and obvious signs of such (lethargy, somnolence, inanimation for a child of that age in his facial features as well as his extremeties)
I still tend to think that after the first beating he kept going downhill and that the "feces" was actually coffee ground emesis (him throwing up blood into his mouth from his upper/and or lower GI tract/abdomen being beaten).
Just another thought.. but the "scalding bath" could have been another of their methods to "wake him up" from the coma they induced. Or to wash him off.
Again I hope Stephanie Sloop is seriously looked at before tomorrow morning when charges are formally filed.