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Essay on Aileen Wuornos
Aileen Wuornos was an American serial killer who was punished to fatality by the state of Florida in 1992. She admitted to assassination of seven men, in different incidents, all of whom she claimed had raped her at the same time as she was working as a prostitute. She was given a death sentence in 2002. Wuornos had what was by most accounts a disturbing upbringing, as her father himself was a psychopathic child molester, who left his wife before Aileen was born, and later killed himself in prison just when she was 13. Her mother discarded her children, which is Wuornos and her brother and left them in the care of their grandparents, Lauri and Britta Wuornos. Wuornos later on said that her caretaker (Lauri) abused her physically and sexually when she was a child and that Britta was an offensive alcoholic, and that they both claimed to be her real parents until she was twelve, when she found out the reality. She moreover claimed to have had sex with several associates, as well as her brother, at a young age. Wuornos was expecting at age fourteen and soon after the delivery she gave the baby up for adoption, which sustained her claim of early sexual activities.
Later than Britta died later that year due to liver failure while Wuornos' mother later accused Lauri of killing her, after that Wuornos ran away from home and turned to prostitution, wandering around the country and supporting herself with sex up until her apprehend for murder years afterward. She was under arrest several times during the 70s and 80s for her offensive acts including drunk driving and theft, plus prostitution. (Chesler, Phyllis (1993)
Her first victim was Richard Mallory who was a storeowner in Palm Harbor, who took Wuornos for a ride on November 30, 1989. After that five consequent victims were found; however one other is still not found....
