Mother accused of locking up sons in ‘horror-movie’ home mentioned they had been the #BESTFAMILYEVER

The Wisconsin mother accused of preserving her two younger sons locked up in a feces-covered “horror-movie” home used social media to painting their lives as a cheerful household — even utilizing the hashtag #BESTFAMILYEVER.

Katie Koch, 34, used social media to submit memes about wrestling, witchcraft and her assist for ex-President Donald Trump — however principally to gush about her love for her co-accused, boyfriend Joel Manke, 38.

The 7- and 9-year-old sons she is accused of locking up in a feces- and urine-covered residence are not often seen, with Koch blaming it on them going via “a ‘please, no images’ part.”

When she did submit pics, they typically grimaced in obvious discomfort — with their faces buried underneath unruly mops of hair that had been so matted with feces they later needed to be shaved off in a hospital.

One pics confirmed one of many boys hanging a Christmas ornament over one in all their bed room home windows, which officers mentioned had been boarded up — seemingly sporting a diaper, which the boys nonetheless used as a result of they nonetheless had not been potty skilled, an affidavit famous.

The happiest the boys appeared was in a sequence of photographs the place they ran to greet their grandma in the midst of the pandemic.

Koch would finally admit she “f—ed up” and knew “her boys deserve higher,” the affidavit mentioned of her interview underneath oath. She additionally despatched the boys a three-page apology letter.

Nevertheless, in her social media posts she used hashtags to say she was #blessed with the #BESTFAMILYEVER.

Principally, that was credited to Manke, her boyfriend since late 2019 who later admitted to cops that he “knew how the kids had been dwelling was not proper however he needed to ‘choose his battles’ … to keep away from arguments.”

Koch gushed over his parenting expertise in a February 2020 submit alongside images of him main the boys by the hand, their heads underneath hats.

“Household isn’t at all times blood. It’s the individuals in your life who need you in theirs,” she wrote of Manke.

“Those who settle for you for who you might be. Those who would do something to see you smile, and who love you it doesn’t matter what.”

“It takes a powerful man to just accept any individual else’s kids and step as much as the plate one other man left on the desk….” 

“Joel, Thank You!!!!” she wrote.

Each would finally be arrested after the boys escaped, with neighbors reporting that the bare, blood-covered youngsters appeared like “cavemen” who’d by no means seen the solar earlier than.

Every faces greater than 40 years in jail if convicted of a number of counts of neglect and false imprisonment.

“It was one thing out of a horror film,” Assistant District Lawyer Mallory Davis informed an preliminary listening to, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

“These kids have been horribly broken from their mom’s actions … They’re, primarily at this level, unable to perform in society.”