Barbora Skrlová: The woman who inspired the movie Orphan

Barbora Skrlová is the real Esther

Barbora Skrlova, a 33-year-old woman on the run from Czech investigators, was arrested this week in Norway for pretending to be "Adam," a 13-year-old boy. Czech authorities sought her for questioning in another case, not as a suspect; and it still isn't clear whether she's an accomplice or a victim.

The "Orphan" real story gives more fear than the movie

In 2009 the horror film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and written by David Leslie Johnson, Orphan, made many of us not wanting to sleep without thinking about that creepy girl who, taking advantage of her strange disease, acted as an innocent child and then unleash her hatred against humanity.

Who was The Orphan in real life?

Nobody would have ever thought about something like this could ever happen. Let's get to know who was the woman who inspired this frightening tape, so let’s begin with the protagonists (the real ones), who suffered thanks to this woman who until now remains Fugitive from justice.

Klara Mauerova was one of the victims

Klara Mauerova was born in Czechoslovakia in 1975. Since she was young she showed signs of schizophrenia, and said that she had visions like the one Joan of Arc gave her, giving her a divine task.

Ondrej and Yakub were Klara's children

Ondrej and Yakub were Klara's little kids, she was really young when she had them and the father of the boys left her after a few years later and from them the woman developed a difficult and aggressive character, leaving the little ones in a dangerous situation.

Before meeting Barbora, Klara was an excellent mom

Klara was an excellent mother; However, after the separation of her partner, she became really depressed because of it, so she asked her little sister to move in with her and take care of the boys together.

Katerina Maureova met Barbora at the university

Katerina Mauerova, Klara's younger sister also had some signs of mental illness, but doctors said it was due to the long time spent with her sister. They talked daily about the things they would do when the time came.

Barbora went to live with the sisters

The sisters met Barbora Skrlová at the university, a 33-year-old woman who looked 13 girl because of a difficult disease called hypopituitarism. This woman was really skilled manipulating, and that's what she did with the two sisters, they became really good friends because of her tragic childhood stories, she made the sisters take her to live with the.

What happened to Barbora in the past?

Years before meeting Klara and Katerina, this woman had been hospitalized for several years in a psychiatric center because she had made herself known as an orphaned child to a family that wanted to adopt her, but they realized about it and sent her to an asylum.

The sisters loved Barbora, but the children didn't

Without knowing this, the sisters accepted the woman in their home, but this one faced strange episodes in which she behaved like a girl and then going back to the mature woman, which she really was.

Klara, Katerina and Barbora locked in the children as punishment

Klara, tired of the supposed misbehavior of her children, was convinced by Barbora, to give them a severe punishment so that they could learned to not disobey them by torturing them.

They locked the boys in a cage for months

The sisters and the 33-year-old woman built an iron cage in the basement and put the little nude boys with no food for several months.

Barbora created a hell at home

The boys were beaten, malnourished and tortured, and Barbora enjoyed watching this, it was a real hell but luckily was discovered by a neighbor who helped the little kids.

The frightening Kurim case

Barbora wanted to fatten them just as Hansel and Gretel and wanted to commit cannibal acts while filming with a camera that was intercepted by the neighbors saving the boys.

When police arrived Barbora pretended to be a little girl

When the police arrived the women refused to let them in, but when they went down to the basement they found one of the worst scenes they had ever seen, the two children where in the cage and in front of it was an "innocent" little girl crying.

The crazy woman claimed to be named Anika

The little girl asked for help to the authorities and said that her name was Anika and that she was adopted by the savage women who enjoyed abusing their children. The little girl was sent to a children's home in which she disappeared that same night.

Barbora disappeared without leaving a clue until one day ...

For many years the women defended Barbora by asserting that her real name was Anika, and that they had adopted her; However, months later at prison they accpeted and blamed the woman.

He lived with a family as a boy named Adam, a genius child

In 2009 Barbora was found in a house of a couple who adopted her, but this time her named was Adam and was a genius child . The family never suspected this, but they confessed that he suffered from severe attacks of depression and anxiety.

The whereabouts of Barbora are currently unknown

After finding her in the house of this couple, the woman was captured and was given a sentence of 12 years, However, she was released in 2012 and no one knows their whereabouts.