✝️ Princess Berthomieux, age 15.- March 19 2002, Inglewood, California, USA 🇺🇸💔
Princess had suffered abuse and came into a foster home. As a baby she was abandoned by her mother and left with her father. By the age of three she was malnourished and covered in bruises. After an „accidental“ poisoning with cocaine on October 1989 she could escape her torturous childhood. She could not walk or talk. Her body was covered with cigarette burns. She had been hog-tied with a rope, because her wrists and ankles were scarred. She had also been forced to stay in a closet for three days. Her father was sentenced to four years in prison and Princess put in foster care.
She lived in a loving foster home with the Smarts until 1997, when first her beloved foster mother died and then her foster father became seriously ill as well. Samara, her foster sister, said later „she became like my daughter“. After she had to go back into other foster care, she ran away from every foster home and hooked up with a pimp in Hawthorne.
Princess was murdered by the „Grim Sleeper“, Lonnie David Franklin Jr.. She was strangled and discovered naked and hidden in shrubbery. Shortly before her murder she had been attacked by another man, a 35 year old taxi driver. She disappeared before he, who was charged with rape, was scheduled for trial.