User:SkyBlueCat/Drafts/Luka Magnotta
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Early Life
Luka Magnotta is born Eric Clinton Kirk Newman in Scarboroughon July 24, 1982, where he was also raised. He was born to Anna Yourkin and Donald Newman as one of the eldest of three kids; he was named after Clint Eastwood and Kirk Douglas, who are Magnotta's father's favorite actors. Magnotta and the parent's two kids were born in the father's basement, including his brother Conrad and sister Melissa. Magnotta's parents later bought a home in Bethany, Ontario, where they lived and raised their children there.
His mother dropped out of high school at grade 9 and later met Magnotta's father when he was 10th grade. His father is a factory worker who suffers from schizophrenia since 1994 and his mother is a writer who is obsessed with cleanliness and often wear surgical mask. Magnotta stated that both had health and drinking problems. Magnotta and his little brother were homeschooled by his mother while the father is at work for support. The mother sometimes lock her children out of the car or out of the house and leave their pet rabbits outside in the winter to freeze to death as she "wanted to total control over them".
His father was an abusive parent before the seperation, but was never abusive to Magnotta. According to Magnotta, he stated that his father is quiet while drinking and loved playing video games with him. His mother rumored that her father threatened to kill her and would watch her with binoculars, which Magnotta did not want to believe. His father at one point was arrested and fired from his job for drinking at work. The family had then lost their house and moved out to their paternal grandparents' home. His father separated from there on when Magnotta was at age 9 or 10. His mother moved on with her children to a new apartment, along with new boyfriend from Toronto, Leo.
When asked about his brother Conrad, Magnotta had no relationship with his brother. According to him, his brother was a "bad alcohic" who was often arrested for drinking and driving, stick up for him when students teased him for looking "like a girl", and being homophobic whenever he helped him on any situations. Magnotta's sister Melissa later confirmed that Conrad had disclosed Magnotta's homosexuality without his permission. From there, Magnotta had became aware to have a relationship with his brother.
At age 16, Magnotta when to live on with his grandmother, Phyllis, who felt "worried about him hearing things, speaking loudly and feeling scared" for most of the time and described as a "mother figure" by Magnotta. The reason for him to live with his grandmother is to escape from psychical abuse of his mother's boyfriend. His grandmother took him to psychiatrist in around 1999 after having concerns about him. Magnotta came to felt that his grandmother was a mother figure to him, as she did raised him right. She often dressed him in clothes, going everywhere with him, and slept with him when he was younger.
Education history
Magnotta was enrolled in grade 6 at age 10 or 11, and having the ability to read and write at one point. He had an humiliating past on the school, including where he was bullied by his students as they tried to ruin his hair, calling him a baby, and laughing at his clothes (as Magnotta's parents don't have enough money to buy him a clothing at Value Village). Magnotta would try to play nice by giving them a chewing gum to make it stop. But instead, the students would still bully him. The class monitors would even be dismissive of him whenever he got into this situation. Allegedly, Magnotta once thrown a chair at a Grade 6 teacher. Although he was often bullied in the school from the past, he communicate with three other students who have a disability. Initially, Magnotta had been placed in the special education classes when he first attended school due to his inability to do math and reading.
After graduating from elementary school, Magnotta went to I. E. Weldon Secondary School, a high school located in Lindsay, Ontario. Magnotta started to lose connection with his brother and that he was never teased by him along with the other kids ever again. However, He was completely unaware and tried to hide from the library at lunch and believed that everyone still hated him.
He wrote a book report for school about Ava Gardner and Sharon Stone, the actors of his favorite film, Basic Instinct.[1]