On 26 October 1965, Indianapolis police found the body of Sylvia Maria Likens, covered in wounds, many of them cigarette burns. Much of her skin had been peeled off her body and the words ‘I am a prostitute and proud of it’ had been burned into the skin. Sylvia and her sister Jenny worked and travelled with a carnival and they had been left in the care of a woman named Gertrude Baniszewski - a woman they barely knew. Over a period of several months, a group of children as young as 11, led by Gertrude and her daughter Paula, and including Jenny had tortured Sylvia. Gertrude, the only adult, and four of the children stood trial for Sylvia’s murder; charges against the other children were dropped. Due to the ages of the younger defendants, many received care orders rather than prison sentences. Gertrude received the heaviest sentence: she was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life. She was paroled on 4 December 1985. She changed her name to Nadine van Fossan and moved to Iowa, where she died of cancer in 1990.
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I wonder is this why...Riften, Skyrim, Gertrude?!
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great movie about this called An American Crime, super super sad.
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