My Name is Jeanette Lankrer - Unterkreuter and I am married now with a different last name, but for identification purposes, I am using the names given to me when I was in foster care and orphanages.

When I was born in Berlin Germany in the 50's, my life had one traumatic event after the other right from the beginning. The first one was that my birth mother forgot to pick me up, but when she eventually did, she was starving me and my two brothers and I almost died, my brothers were a little older and more resilient. Because of her negligence and physical abuse, we were taken away by "Child Care Services" and our torture continued. My brothers Michael and Peter were taken to a couple of old grant aunts who meant well, but were not in any position to raise two active boys. They did not want me because male children were worth more than female children, that shows you the mind set in those days. After a few years, it turned out that the aunts were not able to handle them and both of the boys were put into an orphanages where they grew up until their legal age of 21.

My self, I was put first into an orpanage for babies until I was about 1 year old and then placed into foster care with a very strict catholic women who did not know either how to raise a child and the abuse resulting from that was unbelievable. the only thing the so called "Child Care Services" controlled or monitored was to make sure that we were fed but that was all of it. The emotional, physical, mental and sexual abuse, which was done by the foster mother and the so called "Uncle" who brought meat from his job for my favors once a week, went undedetected because no one cared to listen. When my foster mother died, I was put back into orphanages and the abuse continued by the nuns, teachers and other guardians who just felt like it because we were considered "Garbage" by the people and the system, we were not worth anything.

In the meantime, my brother's fate was not better than mine, they went through physical, mental and emotional abuse as much as I did that's why Michael and Peter always ran away and things got worse. I do not know about any sexual abuse to them but know, that my brother Peter became gay when he was about 19 years of age. I only know, that they were put into closed orphanages for hard to handle boys, where they were locked up, beaten, put to work long hours and did not receive any education. I did not see much of them because we were always seperated. It was a hard life full of pain and tortures which a lot of people cannot imagening and I personally would have a hard time believing it my self if I would not have been there and experienced it my self.

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As of this writing, I am working on my biography and hope, that you will check back with me on a regular basis. I will be updating this site constantly and bring you news on my book, other orphans who have been through life experiences like mine and my brothers. This site is dedicated to us the former "Heimkinder". I know, these stories might be hard to believe, but I will include links to testimonies and reports from News Papers and TV stations who have been beginning to investigate these atrocyties. The world is not done yet and child abuse in orphanages and foster care still exists, not much is being done about, we have to change that because we all are "Children of God" and did not ask to be born into these situations.

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