Jessica Botzko and John Westover
Regularly featured in “Parents” magazine, Jessica Botzko and John Westover thought it was a good idea to keep their 10-year-old son in a dog kennel meant for a Jack Russell Terrier.
The kennel measured slightly smaller than two feet wide by two feet high.
Whenever John felt like using or making drugs, he’d lock the boy inside the cage for hours at a time.
He usually locked the boy in while Jessica Botzko was stripping at the local strip club – the Deja Vu.
On the 1st of May, 2007, the oldest boy and his 5-year-old younger brother ran away while John Westover was gone and while their mom was off stripping.
Jessica Botzko and John Westover apparently enjoyed disciplining both their sons, putting shock collars on both the boys. If Jessica or John felt that the children were being disrespectful, or if the kids just got in the way, they’d use the remote control to shock the kids until they cried.
Neither child was fed regularly. The 10-year old weighed just 61 pounds, which is in the bottom 10th percentile for kids his age. Usually 10-year-old boys weigh between 110 and 130 pounds. Officers who first came across the boy thought he was a little girl because of how small he was.
It’s not like there was no food in the house. When police served the search warrant they took pictures of a very full refrigerator. There were crab legs in the freezer. There was milk and cheese. There were candy bars.
According to John Westover, the youngest boy was stealing food.
Gee. Maybe, possibly, could he have been stealing the food because he was hungry?
Some of those thefts resulted in the kid being put in the cage and shocked with the dog collar.
As police served the search warrant they were astounded by how much garbage was in the home. Dirty clothes and garbage was all over the floor – at one point three feet deep.
While the trailer was a pest-hole, the pet lizard’s cage was pristine, an odd, ironic twist.
Neighbors in the trailer park say they rarely saw the oldest boy outside.
“I didn’t even know they had kids,” neighbor Mike Solo said.
The oldest boy was registered as being home-schooled. He had never been in school in his life.
Both parents were arrested and charged with child endangerment and manufacturing drugs.
Their oldest boy was removed from the home in 1998, when Botzko was 19. She was charged at that time with child endangerment, but completed a drug program and got her kid back.
Westover was wanted for child endangerment in Ohio, and has a (surprise!) lengthy criminal record.
This wonderful couple had a baby girl who died a while back due to what was thought at the time to be SIDS. Authorities are going to re-examine that case.
Do Jessica Botzko and John Westover deserve Hell?
- Yes - both do (97%, 224 Votes)
- No - neither do (1%, 3 Votes)
- Yes - but only John does (1%, 3 Votes)
- Yes - but only Jessica does (1%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 231
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Despicable!!!!! Yes they deserve hell for hurting the innocent. One correction though: 10 year old boys do NOT weigh between 110-130 lbs!! Puberty has not set in yet, my son weighed 71 lbs at age 10 and got up to 75 for age 11, and now he’s full grown at 5’10 and 180. That child may have been deprived of food but was not at starvation yet.
i cant beleive that bitch got off!!!
Having five kids all under the age of 13, there have often been times that i wished for a “remote control” to pause the good bits, fast forward the crap bits and rewind the great bits.
Never considered adding a shock collar to the equasion…the mind boggles that some people are allowed to breed.
All of those poor babies. I would love for the children to be able to apply a shock collar to the parents and see how they like it. I am very surprised that nothing more happened to those children.
I don’t get it…featured in Parents magazine?????????????WTF?
Nevermind,I get it,that was sarcasm,right?(slaps forehead)
Both being assholes and craptacular parents aside, why does the name Botzko invoke thought of some shitty European sports car?
Wow, I can’t believe that this happened in my city… just goes to show what a black hole toledo has become.
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i new john and jessica i lived a couple doors down from them and i didnt even know that they had children untill a couple months before this happened. and i would see john and jessica take the oldest boy with them in their car sometimes but i never seen the youngest boy at all. if u knew them they were good people but real bad parents and i think they shouldve got longer for what they did.i just cant belive john and jessica would ever do such a sick thing like that.