“He was a butterfly fanatic. He was the most content youngster. He was everybody’s closest pal. He made me laugh so hard that I started crying. He had no fear.

“He enjoyed both dancing and singing. He was the greatest and so intelligent that the teacher claimed he was two years older than the rest of the students.

“A nightmare, indeed. The fight to get out of bed is constant. Helping to spread awareness is the only thing that sustains me.

“I don’t want his passing to be in vain. I not only lost my son, but I also lost my life. I am no longer a mother. Making Greyson lunch and taking him around occupied my entire life on a constant basis.

“I have bills to pay so if I don’t get out of bed in the morning, I’m homeless.”

Stacey had been the subject of Ali’s attempts to obtain a restraining order when she discovered a tracker attached to her car and he had written her unpleasant messages. However, on the day Greyson was killed, Ali’s application was turned down.

According to Ali, the couple first connected through an app in New York six years ago; they dated but never became serious.

Ali was surprised when Stacey also moved to the same state and filed for 50 percent custody when Greyson was six months old after she went to Florida and discovered she was pregnant but Stacey said he didn’t want any part of the baby.

However, when Ali began dating someone else, Stacey became more and more envious.

You f*cking piece of shit ruined my life, Stacey stated in one message.

In yet another unsettling message, he added: “Are you attempting to obtain a restraining order as a result of texts?

“I hope you realise how disastrous it would be for my work and how it would further fuel the fires by making it impossible to pay child support.

I’ll take it as a yes if you don’t respond.

Stacey failed to drop Greyson off at school on the day Ali was in court attempting to obtain a restraining order, so she showed up at his condo with a police escort but got no response.

Officers allegedly told Ali they couldn’t help because Greyson was with a parent, forcing her to desperately look for her son on her own.

She contacted a locksmith, who arrived at the house at 11 p.m., but it wasn’t until 5 a.m. the next morning that she learned her son had been murdered.

We didn’t date for very long, so it’s not like we were partners, according to Ali. He didn’t want to be a part of the pregnancy or of our lives. He wasn’t even listed on the birth certificate when I had the child. He successfully sued me for joint custody of Greyson when he was six months old.

He relocated here, where he tormented me for five years.

When she was pregnant, he mailed

He would insult me and say I am a terrible person. There was little I could do about his harassment, which included sending me 60 SMS at once.

“The pattern was wildly unusual. My life was being ruined by him. Unless it was specifically about Greyson, I tried to ignore him.

I began dating and he became really envious. He put a tracker on my car and I felt like I was being followed, so I took it to a shop where they discovered a tracker.