Sylvia Likens, American murder victim (born 1949)

Murder of Sylvia Likens

1965 child murder in Indianapolis, U.S.

Sylvia Marie Likens was an American teenager who was tortured and murdered by her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, many of Baniszewski's children, and several of their neighborhood friends. The abuse lasted for three months, occurring incrementally, before Likens died from her…