Details of child abuse incidents from 65438 to 0965 in Indiana, USA.

Sylvia Marie Rickens (1 3rd of March1949-126th of October 1965), the victim of a murder in Indiana. /Kloc-When he was 0/6 years old, he was abused to death by Gertrude Banzewski, Gertrude's children and other neighbors' children. The prosecutor in charge of the incident called it "the most terrible crime in Indiana."

Sylvia is the child of Betty and Lester, the parade carnival workers. Because of the work of Mr. and Mrs. Likens, the family always moves from one place to another. Sylvia is often left at a relative's house when her parents are not at home.

1July 1965, Mr. and Mrs. Liken boarded Sylvia, 16 years old, Jenny, 15 years old, in the house of Gertrude Banzewski. Sylvia and Gertrude Banzewski's daughter Paula are in the same school, and the two families often meet in church on Sunday. Gertrude Banzewski is a thin woman. She suffers from asthma and depression. After several failed marriages, she raised seven children alone and lived a poor life. Mr. and Mrs. Likens didn't know Gertrude very well, but they gave her the child with confidence. The two families agreed that as a reward, the Likens would pay Gertrude 20 yuan every week.

However, the first money did not arrive in time. Gertrude was very angry She took it out on the two girls and gave them a good beating. Since then, verbal and physical abuse has become commonplace.

Soon after, starting from August 1965, Gertrude concentrated on attacking Sylvia: accusing her of stealing candy from home, and beating her for this reason (actually Sylvia bought the candy herself in the store). After learning that Sylvia had a boyfriend, she cursed and humiliated her, saying that she was a prostitute, often fooling around with boys and was pregnant. In fact, it was her daughter Paula who was pregnant.

Gertrude also let her children torture Sylvia together and even forced Jenny to beat her sister.

The news that Paula was pregnant spread around the school, and there were rumors that Stephanie and Paula were engaged in prostitution. Gertrude thinks Sylvia is spreading rumors, encouraging Stephanie's boyfriend Coy Hubbard to "educate" Sylvia with another neighbor's child Richard Hobbs. They burned cigarettes on her, forced her to undress in front of a group of boys, and stuffed coke bottle stoppers into her vagina.

Once, Sylvia stole a sportswear to go to physical education class. Gertrude immediately dragged Sylvia home from school and beat her up. Sylvia was pushed down the stairs and locked in the basement. Never left this place again.

What followed was constant abuse and torture, and Gertrude's children enjoyed it. Even more cruel, Gertrude carved "I am proud of it" on Sylvia's stomach with a hot needle. "(Gertrude only wrote the beginning, and Coy Hubbard finished the rest. )

Sylvia is getting weaker and weaker under this torture. She tried to escape, but was found at once. As punishment, Gertrude forbade her to use the toilet and only gave her biscuits to eat.

Sadly, the neighbors of Baniszewski's family-Phyllis and Raymond Vermillion, who moved next door to Baniszewski's family in August 1965, immediately noticed Sylvia's abuse, but not only did they not stop it, they never even mentioned it to the police or anyone else.

1965101October 26th, after many beatings, Stephanie and Richard Hobbes found that Sylvia was not breathing. Stephanie tried to give her artificial respiration, but it was too late. Sylvia died of cerebral hemorrhage, shock and malnutrition.

Gertrude told Richard to call the police. When the police arrived, Gertrude handed over the letter Sylvia was forced to write to her parents a few days ago. The letter said that she had sex with several boys in exchange for money. They dragged her into the car, beat her, burned her with cigarettes and carved words on her skin. Just before the police left, Jenny rushed out and said to them, get me out of here and I'll tell you what happened. During the trial, Gertrude refused to admit that she was responsible for Sylvia's death and applied for innocence on the grounds of insanity. The lawyer who defended the children said that they were driven by Gertrude. Gertrude argued that she was in such a coma because of her poor health and the pressure of managing her children.

When Marie Gertrude11+0-year-old daughter was brought to court as a witness, she admitted that she and Hobbes carved words on Sylvia's body with a needle, and said that she saw her mother beat Sylvia many times and forcibly locked Sylvia in the basement.

1on may 9, 966, the court convicted Gertrude banzewski of first-degree murder. Although she escaped the death penalty, she was sentenced to life imprisonment. Paula was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Richard Hobbes, Coy Hubbard and John Banzewski were sentenced to 2 to 2 1 year respectively.

197 1 year, the case was tried again. Paula pleaded guilty to intentional homicide and was released two years later. Gertrude Banzewski was convicted of first-degree murder again. She did well in prison. She was released on parole at 1985 despite strong public opposition.

Later, Gertrude Banzewski changed her name to Nadine Van Fusang and moved to Iowa, where she died on June 1990. When Jenny saw the news in the newspaper, she wrote to her mother and said that there was some good news. Goddamn Gertrude is dead. Hahaha! I'm very happy about that.