Not sure if this has ever been written about before, but Candice Lynn Potter was 19 when she had Jersh in late 1992, she was born in 1973.
By Jersh's admission, he and his mother originally hailed from small town (probably Western, aka Appalachia) Maryland in the early 90s, I think that makes it all the more likely his mom was doing drugs while she was pregnant with him, thus explaining why, besides Jersh's obvious behavioral defects, he never even got a GED either, so he didn't even finish High School through any alternative routes either, and he is plain incapable of absorbing any kind of useful knowledge. For that matter, Jersh has no natural sense of how to relate with other people at all, or knowing what underlies social interactions. Ergo, he is a low-functioning psychopath.
Mind you, I'm not bringing up the possible drug use just to be crass; we also know that Jersh's dad never wanted nothing to do with him or Candice, and Candice herself has had a platitude of different boyfriends over the years, seemingly unwilling to focus solely on her son, so to me this is a strong indication that Joshua was an unplanned pregnancy.
Don't know what exact year this is from, but it's pretty telling that one of the first things that shows up when anyone searches up Candice's name, this is one of her mugshots
As I see it, it's a telltale sign of somebody who had been shooting up heroin back then.
Some of you might be familiar with the term "heroin chic" in the modeling world. That is, when women who are models have very pale skin from having a heroin habit on the side. This looks a lot like except y'know, not a model.
I forget what exact charges this mugshot accompanied, but again, I'm willing to bet it was probably drug possession of some sort.
If anyone is interested in digging up further [even thought it might possibly constitute as encouraging doxxing, a mod or admin is free to correct me on this], anyone can try plugging that into relevant public law enforcement databases between Maryland and Florida and see what pops up too, if you want.