After a year or so of her new "profession", she became pregnant. This did not prevent Eeklocloo from beating her though and she was beginning to take a demented solace in her work, an escape from her home life. As she began to progress along in her pregnancy she began to love her child more than anything, but her child was also becoming a burden, she gradually had to give up dancing and had already stopped her other work when she first found out. Her income began to dry up and the beatings got worse. One night she became fed up and in a moment of passion and anger, she shot Eeklocloo with his own blaster.
Akoogari was born 22 years before the Battle of Yavin, in Mos Entha on Tatooine. His mother, Croolo was a dancer and he loved her dearly. He never knew who his father was. He spend his childhood on the streets. He seen some of the shadiest activities one could see, before he was 10 years old. Very early on he learned to use a blaster and began to do jobs for random people around Mos Entha, mostly vermin extermination and occasionally delivering sealed packages to people in dark alleys. His new income allowed his mother to quit his other "work" and be a dancer and only a dancer. She no longer felt guilty about her past, she had a son who loved her and no longer had to do what she had to do in the past.
But some of the locals didn't like her change of mind. By this time Akoogari was 16 years old and becoming involved in more in criminal activities. The locals that didn?t like the rescinding of Croolo's services were people of action. Two of Lady Valarian's thugs grabbed Croolo one day when she was out getting food with Akoogari. As the struggle ensued Akoogari drew his blaster and shot one of the assaulting brigands. The other drew a knife and plunged it into Croolo's stomach, then threw her limp body to the side and charged him. A shot rang out and the vagabond fell. The man who shot the thug was a human in the service of Jabba the Hutt. Akoogari's mother was dead and the smuggler offered to take him with, but they had to leave quickly because more of the Valarians would soon show. Akoogari agreed in his distraught state and they rushed to the star port. They boarded a freighter and immediately lifted off.
The freighter landed in the sand about 100 meters west of Jabba's palace. He followed the smuggler to the palace entrance and they went inside when permission was granted. Inside a green Rodian came up to the smuggler and introduced themselves as Avari Viri and Srelogawoi, and that was their freighter, the Kraytflame. They worked for Jabba and offered to take him along. Akoogari agreed and that was the day he became an outlaw himself.