![]() She was later sent to a home for unwed mothers. Wuornos was forced to live in an abandoned car in the woods in the snow and rain. The baby boy was put up for adoption immediately after birth. ![]() She was thrown out of her home, disowned by her family and the community after having the baby at a Detroit maternity home on March 23, 1971. Wuornos became pregnant at age fourteen which supported her claim of early sexual activities. She also claimed to have had sex with multiple partners, including her brother Keith, at a young age. Sometimes she lay face down, spread-eagled naked on the bed, for her whippings." Wuornos and her brother Keith found out that Lauri and Britta were not their actual parents when she was twelve. In Lethal Intent, Sue Russell wrote that Wuornos was whipped with a belt by Lauri: "When she was made to pull down her shorts and bend over the wooden table in the middle of the kitchen, when the doubled-over belt flew down onto her bare buttocks, little Aileen railed against her father, petrified and crying noisily. Wuornos later said that Lauri physically and sexually abused her as a child and that Britta was an abusive alcoholic. Lauri and Britta legally adopted the two children. Diane abandoned Aileen and her brother Keith in 1960, leaving them in the care of their Finnish-born grandparents, Lauri and Britta Wuornos, who raised them in Troy, Michigan. Diane was in fear of Pittman with good reasons. Diane divorced Pittman a few months before Aileen was born - less than two years into their marriage. ![]() Aileen Wuornos' older brother, Keith, was born in 1955. Wuornos' mother, Diane Wuornos, married Pittman when she was 15 and bore him two children in Rochester, Michigan. He later committed suicide by hanging in prison, in 1969. Her father, Leo Dale Pittman, with whom she never had contact, was a psychopathic child molester who served time in Kansas and Michigan mental hospitals. Born in Rochester, Michigan, Wuornos had what was, by most accounts, a traumatic childhood. ![]()
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