Fred and Rose West
Summary:
Fred's Background
- Fred was born on September 29. 1941 in a small town in England.
-He was the second of six children
- He was expose to many kinds of sexual abuse mainly in his household
- He said his father had sexual relationships with his daughters and he taught Fred to have sex with animals
- Fred's mother started sexually abusing him when he was 12
- He also had sexual relationships with his sisters
- He was really close to his mother, and left school at the age of 15 to work on a farm
- As he grew older he became more attractive to girls
-Fred was in a motorcycle accident leaving him in comma for a week and led him to having a metal plate operated in his head a breaking his leg so much that made it shorter than the other one.
- At the age of 19 he was convicted of molesting a 13 year old girl even though he didn't serve any jail time.
- Later he married Rena Costello who was a prostitute and was pregnant from another man.
- They divorced her to marry another woman that also had a child with him, he ended up killing her.
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Rosemary's Background:
- Rose was born in Devon, England
- Her household was troubled and abusive
- Rose was sexually abused by her father, because she wasn't very bright and was a bit overweight
- She became interested in older men because of her father's abuse
- She moved out with her mother, but soon moved back in with her father.
- Rose's father didn't agree on Fred's and Rose's relationship, but she ended up marring him and having a child in 1970, She named her daughter Heather.
Fred and West Marraige:
- His second daughter from his second marriage was the first girl to suffer brutal rape from her father while her step-mother, Rose, held her down.
- They hired 17 year old Caroline Owens to be a babysitter, but they also raped and abused her. She was able to escape and report the Wests to the police.
- Fred and Rose were able to escape with fines.
- during that time Rose was pregnant with her first son, Stephen.
- For the next five years the continue to murder young girls and they would cut off their fingers and toes.
- They had six children, after his oldest daughter moved out with her boyfriend, he moved on to his next daughter to sexually abuse them
- When one of their daughters, Heather, made the mistake of telling her friend what was happening in her household, Rose and Fred immediately, killed her a buried her in their back year
- Their son Stephen was force to dig the whole for his sister.
-They were eventually found guilty.. Fred hanged himself in his cell before his trail.. Rose went to train and sentenced to life in prison.