Stephanie Sloop, a Layton woman who failed to protect her 4-year-old son from the severe abuse that killed him, will spend another 40 years in prison before she gets a parole hearing.
After conducting an administrative review of Sloop's case, the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole on Tuesday set a hearing for May 2055. That means Sloop will be 72 before she has a chance for freedom — and the Davis County attorney's office asked the board in a letter sent earlier this year to keep her behind bars for the rest of her life.
Sloop
pleaded guilty in November to first-degree felony aggravated murder and second-degree felony obstruction of justice in the death of her son, Ethan Stacy. Second District Judge Thomas Kay immediately sentenced her to 20 years to life in prison for the murder charge and one to 15 years on the obstruction count, with the terms running concurrently.
The mother — along with her husband, Nathan Sloop, who was the boy's stepfather — was accused of engaging in multiple acts of severe abuse between April 29 and May 8, 2010, that led to Ethan Stacy's death. Prosecutors said that while much of the physical abuse came from Nathan Sloop, Stephanie Sloop did not seek medical treatment for Ethan.
The parole board earlier also set a May 2055 hearing for Nathan Sloop, 36.
