It is well known that a dysfunctional family will cause problems for a child, but what happens when the child becomes a troubled adult? And not only that, when does she becomes a prostitute and a murderer, what were the factors that influenced Aileen Carol Wuornos, the “Damsel of Death "?
Aileen Carol Wuornos was born on February 29, 1956 in Michigan United States. She was the second daughter of Diane Wuornos and Leo Pitman. The father did not appear in the life of Aileen because when she was born her parents divorced a few months later. Leo was locked up in a prison of Michigan by charges of pederasty and in the year of 1969 committed suicide. Her mother also had no presence in the growth and development of the girl Wuornos or her older
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Insecurity due to an unstable social environment increases vulnerability, and therefore young people with poorly developed social skills are less able to protect themselves against the negative influences that a group may exert on them. Aileen Carol Wuornos, a well-known serial killer, was the daughter of a pederast who spent time in several psychiatric hospitals and committed suicide while in prison. Her mother after divorcing, left her and her brother, leaving them in the care of their grandparents. The grandfather of the minor abused her physically and sexually, while her grandmother was an alcoholic. Aileen had intercourse early with multiple partners and even with her brother (getting pregnant at age 14). After giving birth she was repudiated by her family and the community, so she gave her son up for adoption and was forced to live in an abandoned car in the forest. With the death of his grandmother she began her dedication to prostitution. It is relevant to note here that at that time, Aileen was a minor who was still in school age. Wuornos never had the affective support necessary for the correct development of the individual, came from a completely unstructured family, and the socioeconomic environment where it developed was decadent, among other factors. This case perfectly reflects the development of deviant behavior due to the incidence of exogenous factors on a minor. Aileen Wuornos, regardless of whether she could present a genetics that determined her predisposition towards criminal behavior, she was born and developed in a completely unfavorable environment, which precipitated the adoption of the behaviors that led her to consolidate herself as the serial killer that we know today. "Society prepares criminals and the guilty are only the instruments that execute them". This is why the observation