Sex with her son would cure him of homosexuality, the woman thought 👩‍👦

Barbara tried her best to fix up her son with a variety of the young ladies who floated on the edge of the prominent social circle that she and her elite friends and acquaintances occupied, however, Anthony was not interested. Tony was gay, a circumstance that neither Barbara nor her husband could tolerate.

Barbara Daly Baekeland, a previous model for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, had married into wealth and high-society when she wed Brooks Baekeland, whose grandfather was chemist Leo Baekeland, the inventor of plastic and the founder of Bakelite plastic. They married in 1944 in California, a year after they met, when Barbara falsely claimed to be pregnant. The couple had their only child, Tony, in 1951.

When Tony was a teenager, Barbara arranged for her young son to be with prostitutes. However, Tony could not be swayed. Barbara’s biggest misfire was when she tried to matchmake Tony with a French girl named Sylvie. Instead, Brooks took an interest in the young girl and left Barbara for Sylvie in 1968.

Barbara turned her attentions to her son and since she believed that all of the other female suitors had failed, she felt that she was the only one who could put a stop to her son’s homosexual tendencies. Barbara’s sister-in-law recalled Barbara saying, “You know, I could get Tony over his homosexuality if I just took him to bed.” The alleged rape assault occurred in Majorca in 1968.