She continued to spend her nights in bars and almost always got into fights, including fights with her husband. Married life was not something she could adapt to. Some time later she met her first husband, Lewis Gratz, who owned a yacht club. She was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and shooting at a vehicle with a firearm, but never attended the trial. She did not feel beautiful and believed she did not deserve to be happy.Īs a consequence she used to drink heavily, and in 1974 she “inaugurated” her criminal record.

Having low self-esteem and often dealing with violence, Aileen saw prostitution as her only path. In 1971, after her grandmother’s death, she was beaten by her grandfather and thrown out of the house. At the age of 15 she had already left school and had sex with men of different ages in exchange for money to survive. Her grandfather blamed her for this and said that no man would ever be able to love her and raise a family.Īccording to Aileen, her grandmother knew about the abuse and didn’t intervene to stop it. Her grandfather also raped and beat her constantly, and once after being raped by a family friend, she became pregnant and gave the baby up for adoption. At the age of 11 Aileen started having sex with her brother and some friends, in exchange for drugs and food. Sexual violence seemed to be a chronic problem in her family. At the age of six, during a game, Aileen burned her face with a lighter and this deformed her cheek a bit. She and her older brother received little care and almost no supervision from their grandparents about their actions. In 1960, when Aileen was only four years old, Diane, her mother, left her and her brother with her grandparents and never came back. When she was born, Leo was in prison for killing a 7-year-old child after sexually assaulting her. Her brother, Keith, had been born a year earlier.Īileen’s childhood was complicated her father was a pedophile and convicted murderer. She was the youngest child of Diane Wuornos and Leo Dale Pittman, who were married two years before she was born.

ARTICLE CONTINUES AFTER ADVERTISEMENT Aileen Wuornos’ ChildhoodĪileen was born in Rochester, Michigan, USA, on February 29, 1956.

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