#history Barbora Skrlová was born in the Czech Republic and also suffered from hypopituitarism, which allowed her to look like a 13-year-old girl. Almost nothing is known about her parents, only that she was locked up in a psychiatric center because she had psychopathic traits, she realized the disease that affected her and did not hesitate to use it to her advantage, posing as a girl and deceiving everyone who adopted her

Klara and Katherina Mauerová, also from the Czech Republic, suffered from schizophrenic episodes, although they tried to lead a normal life. Klara met Barbora while studying at university. They became friends and the “girl” assured her that she had escaped from a juvenile center because of ill-treatment and that she had nowhere to go, so Klara decided to take her home in Kuřim, 200 km south-west of Prague,

With the arrival of the new member of the family, everything got worse. According to the English newspaper Daily Mail, Barbora began to feel jealous of the attention the children received and blamed them for any disaster she made The Mauerová sisters claimed that they suffered from hallucinations equal to those of Joan of Arc and that they were waiting for a “divine” mission, which facilitated Barbora's work and was the first link in a chain of hellish abuses to those who exposed creatures.

Because they needed to know what the children were doing while they were not present, Barbora bought used surveillance equipment for newborn babies and installed it. His neighbors bought the same technology for his baby and when they tried to use it, he mistakenly picked up the signal from the Mauerová house. Shocked by such a scene, they immediately notified the authorities The officers arrested the women and took the children to a hospital, where one of them died. Meanwhile, 'Anika' escaped and disappeared.


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