What is Aurore Gagnon?
{{Infobox person | known_for = [[child abuse]] victim | name = Aurore Gagnon | birth_name = Marie-Aurore-Lucienne Gagnon | birth_date = {{Birth date|1909|05|31}} | birth_place = Lotbiniere, [[Quebec]], Canada | death_cause = [[Sepsis]] (blood poisoning)<br/>Exhaustion | relatives = Marie-Jeanne Gagnon (sister)Georges-Etienne Gagnon (brother)Joseph Gagnon (brother)Lucina Gagnon (sister) | death_date = {{Death date and age|1920|02|12|1909|05|31}} | death_place = Fortierville, Canada | parents = Marie-Anne Caron, Telesphore Gagnon | resting_place = Fortierville Cemetery }} '''Marie-Aurore-Lucienne Gagnon''', simply known as '''Aurore Gagnon''' (31 May 1909 –12 February 1920), was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] girl who was a victim of [[child abuse]]. She died of [[Fatigue|exhaustion]] and [[blood]] [[Poison|poisoning]] ([[sepsis]]), She had about 52 wounds inflicted by her stepmother, Marie-Anne Houde, and her father, Télesphore Gagnon. The story of ''l'enfant martyre'' ([[English language|English]] translation: ''The Child Martyr'') received great attention in the [[Mass media|media]]. Aurore became an icon of [[Quebec]] [[society]] and [[popular culture]]. ==Life== Aurore was born into and raised in a [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] family. She was the second of five children of farmer Télesphore Gagnon and his first wife Marie-Anne Caron. Her parents married in September 1906. They lived in [[Fortierville, Quebec]]. It was a small [[village]] on the south [[shore]] of the [[Saint Lawrence River|St. Lawrence River]]. The villiage was a {{Cvt|100|km|abbr=on}}southwest of Quebec. The Gagnons' first child, Marie-Jeanne, was born in August 1907. Aurore's birth was soon followed by that of Lucina then Georges in 1910 and Joseph in 1915. In 1916, not long after Joseph's birth, Marie-Anne Caron was [[Hospital|hospitalized]] for [[tuberculosis]]. Marie-Anne Houde, the widow of a cousin of Télesphore, soon moved into the Gagnon h