Though I only joined Websleuths a year ago, I've been reading here for years, and this is the most horrendous case I've come across here. Never before have I experienced the actual desire/urge to brutally beat and torture the perps like I do in this case. The picture of little Ethan sitting next to that monster just makes me want to reach through the computer screen and save him, hug him, get him help, and that it's too late, that this happened two weeks ago, that this little boy was being gruesomely tortured while I was just going about my daily life....let's just say I've shed more than a few tears over this.
SS and NS are not human, IMO. They do not have souls. They are idiotic, self-centered, sadistic sociopaths. I do not for one second believe NS has MPD/DID; I think he is a sociopath of the worst kind. I just cannot comprehend how a human being could take an innocent, helpless, sweet little boy like Ethan and beat him continuously over a period of days to the point that he dies. This was not a momentary case of rage taking over; these



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I am sorry for this ranting post, but I cannot get Ethan and his suffering out of my mind. I cannot get that picture out of my mind. I want NS and SS to suffer. I want them to suffer like no one else in the history of this world has ever suffered. Life in prison is too good for them. The death penalty is way too good for them. I feel with crimes this horrible, the perpetrators should be made to suffer as much or more than their victim suffered. I know this is not going to happen in a million years, but how I wish it could.
I hope Ethan is at peace, wherever his soul is now. I hope he can feel the love coming from all of us. I hope he knows we would have saved him if we only knew. Only 4 years old. F&^$. I'm going to go cry some more now.