MADISON – Nothing could save her 7-year-old son, but she hopes a law named in his honor can help keep other vulnerable children alive.
"This can't bring Ethan back," Andrea Everett said Thursday after Gov. Tony Evers signed "Ethan's Law," a bill inspired by Everett's son Ethan Hauschultz. "But it can help save some other kids, and that's a good thing."
Ethan was fatally injured in 2018 in a foster home in rural Manitowoc County. He was being punished because he had talked back to a schoolteacher. Prosecutors allege in court papers that the punishment — lugging a 44-pound log around a snowy yard for more than an hour — was ordered by the boy's foster father, Timothy Hauschultz, and carried out by Damian Hauschultz, a teenager Timothy had adopted.