Here's What I Think About...Serial Killer Aileen Carol Wuornos

Aileen Carol Wuornos was the daughter of a sociopathic child molester who was killed in prison by strangulation. Her childhood was anything but storybook, and she was pregnant at 14, soon after turning to prostitution. In a very brief, two-year span of time, she killed seven men who had picked her up while she was hitchhiking, claiming that they either raped her or attempted to rape her. She was executed October 9, 2002 by Lethal Injection in Florida where her murdering spree took place.

Despite her many killings, Wuornos didn't really become famous until the movie "Monster" which detailed the portion of her life around the time of the killings, but the movie only told a small portion of her life. Born on February 29, 1956, in Rochester, Michigan, she was abandoned by her own parents at a very young age and was adopted by her grandparents. Her childhood was troubled to say the least.

Once she made her way from Michigan to Florida, in the early 70's, she worked as a prostitute and a thief in order to support herself and a woman she met with whom she had an intimate relationship with.

When someone is forced to grow up early and is exposed to years of mental and sexual abuse, as Wuornos had alleged, I believe they live their life as just a continuation of those things unless they are identified early. If anyone had stepped into her life to start it on a new course, this "monster" might never have evolved.

It wasn't until she had been tried and convicted and sentenced to die that she began gaining supporters who believed that she was raped by the men she murdered. One of those supporters - a born-again Christian woman - actually adopted her,a caring gesture that had come many years too late for Aileen.

Did she deserve to die for her crimes? Absolutely. Could things have turned out differently for her with some nurturing and guidance at a young age? Probably.

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