‘At the age of seven, Gergana was left at the door of the 'Good Shepard' orphanage run by the strict nuns of the XXX order in the Alsace-Lorraine area of France. Here, unlike the rest of France, the Catholic Church held great sway and there was little separation between Church and State. The nuns dubbed the young girl, Gigi. She spoke no French and did not even know her last name.
The other children were either girls of the street, thieves or abandoned offspring. Many of the children’s fathers from this region (which had once been part of Germany) had been forcibly conscripted into the Nazi Army during WWII. These communities were notoriously rife with economic exploitation. In a now banned tradition of French convent orphanages, known in Latin as ‘Labor omnia vincit’ or ‘Work conquers all things’ the young wards of the state were shipped out to labor on local farms or to serve as au pairs for nearby families. The stipends earned for the children's full time labors were paid directly to the convent. There was virtually no oversight and many of the children were victims of great cruelties and sexual abuse.’
- An excerpt from the quickie biography. Gigi - the Gypsy Gone Bad, rushed out by Scandale Press, during Gigi's murder trial,
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