Editing Aileen Wuornos (section)

==Personal life==
Wuornos was born as '''Aileen Carol Pittman''' in Rochester, Michigan, on February 29, 1956. Her mother was 14 years old when she became engaged to Aileen's father, on June 3, 1954. they divorced when she was 2 years old.

Aileen never got a chance to meet her biological father. He was imprisoned at the time of her birth. He was a known schizophrenic who was convicted of sex crimes against minors. He eventually hang himself in prison in 1969, when Aileen was only 12 years old. A few years earlier, Aileen's mother abandoned her and her brother in the month of January in the year 1960. They were taken to live with their maternal grandparents, [[Lauri Wuornos]] and Britta Wuornos, and they adopted them on March 18, 1960.

When she was 9 years old, Wuornos engaged in sexual activities at school in exchange for cigarettes, drugs, and food. She also did those activities with her brother, Keith. Aileen had claimed that her grandfather had abused her both physically and sexually, and claimed that he always told her to strip before he beat her. In the year 1970, she became pregnant at the age of 13. She had been raped by a friend of [[Lauri Wuornos|Lauri]]. She eventually gave birth in a home for unwed mothers, and the baby was put up for adoption. She later dropped out of school, and her grandmother died of liver failure. When she was 15 years old, her grandfather threw her out of the house, and, in order to provide for herself, she became a prostitute. She resided in the woods near her old home.