Mother of the Week: Jessica Botzko

A couple of weeks ago, I told you about my little brother's dog, whose sense of white dog privilege leads it to chew on and destroy all types of shit that doesn't belong to it.

Back when he first got it, it would just bark all the time, for no apparent reason. Eventually, my little brother went to a pet store and picked up one of those shock collars, which gives the dog a slight shock whenever it barks.

But it didn't really work very well. The dog would bark, and get shocked, but then it would forget what was going on like five minutes later and just start barking. Plus, I think it began to build up a tolerance to being shocked over time.

So my brother went back to the pet store and copped one of those joints that emits a high frequency noise whenever the dog barks. Voila. You can't actually hear the sound this thing emits, but it must be devastating for a dog, because it hasn't barked as much ever since.

The thing is, the shock collar we had would only go off if the dog barked. I wasn't even aware that they made a model where you could just electively shock the shit out of your dog whenever you felt like it, or obviously I would have just pitched in the extra cost to buy it.

Would I recommend such a device for a noisy child? Not necessarily, though apparently our mother of the week Jessica Botzko thought it was a good idea. Her and her husband John Westover are being charged with child endangerment for locking their 10 year-old son in a cage and making him wear a shock collar.

According to reports, the boy was forced to stay in the approximately 2 by 2-foot cage for punishment and while his father, who kinda looks like Dave Navarro (no lie - check the video) was making and selling drugs. He ran away with his five year-old brother while their mother was off to work at a local strip club.

Police found the two kids on a neighbors porch a few blocks. Capt. Ray Carroll of the Toledo Police Dept. decribed the trailer where the family lived as one of the top five nastiest house he had seen in his life.

Checkit: Police: Ohio couple shocked, caged son [Yahoo! News]