Bonus Minisode #12: Ryan Buttery

Bonus Minisode #12: Ryan Buttery

From Suffer the Little Children by Suffer the Little Children

November 16, 2025 · 16 min

About this episode

This episode recounts the tragic story of Ryan Buttery, a toddler who died from severe injuries under suspicious circumstances.

(FYI: I'm still here, and new episodes are coming! See today's Facebook post.) Stacey Schuchart was nine months pregnant with her seventh child. None of her previous six children were legally in her custody, although at least some of them had been illegally staying with Stacey and her partner, Sean Buttery, for about a month when, on August 16, 2019, a 911 call summoned first responders to the family's home in Dayton, Kentucky, on a report of a child not breathing. Sean Ryan Buttery Jr., known as Ryan by those who loved him, was two days shy of 18 months of age when he died from a laundry list of injuries that caused, according to the coroner, "the level of trauma that she would expect from a serious car accident," including four pelvic fractures, a detached bladder, and other indications that Stacey had stomped her toddler son to death. This is the horrific story of Ryan Buttery. Photos related to today's episode can be viewed on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/photo-gallery-12-64717945 You can also follow the podcast on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sufferthelittlechildrenpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sufferthelittlechildrenpod TikTok…

People in this episode

Host: Suffer the Little Children

Topics covered

  • child abuse
  • tragedy
  • family dynamics
  • legal custody
  • crime

Keywords

  • Ryan Buttery
  • child death
  • Stacey Schuchart
  • Sean Buttery
  • Kentucky
  • abuse
  • tragedy

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Places: Dayton, Kentucky

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