She was later charged with failure to appear. On May 27, 1974, at age 18, Wuornos was arrested in Jefferson County, Colorado, for driving under the influence (DUI), disorderly conduct, and firing a. When Wuornos was 15, her grandfather threw her out of the house, and she began supporting herself through sex work and living in the woods near her old home. A few months after her son was born, she dropped out of school at about the same time that her grandmother died of liver failure. Wuornos gave birth to a boy at a home for unwed mothers on March 23, 1971, and the child was placed for adoption. In 1970, at age 14, she became pregnant, having been raped by an accomplice of her grandfather. Before beating her, he would force her to strip out of her clothes. Wuornos said that her alcoholic grandfather had sexually assaulted and beaten her when she was a child. She had also engaged in sexual activities with her brother. Д«y the age of 11, Wuornos began engaging in sexual activities in school in exchange for cigarettes, drugs, and food. In January 1960, when Wuornos was almost four years old, Diane abandoned her children, leaving them with their maternal grandparents, Lauri and Britta Wuornos (nГ©e Moilanen), both alcoholics, who legally adopted Keith and Aileen on March 18, 1960. He was later convicted of sex crimes against children he committed suicide by hanging in prison on January 30, 1969. Leo Dale Pittman was diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Wuornos never met her father, as he was incarcerated at the time of her birth. After less than two years of marriage, and two months before Aileen was born, Diane filed for divorce. Aileen's older brother Keith was born on March 14, 1955. Her mother, Diane Wuornos (born 1939), was 14 years old when she married Aileen's father, 16-year-old Leo Dale Pittman (1936вЂ“1969), on June 3, 1954. Wuornos was born Aileen Carol Pittman in Rochester, Michigan, on February 29, 1956.

Serial killer sims 4