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House of Evil: The Indiana Torture Slaying (St. Martin's True Crime Library)

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Testimony delivered at trial clearly illustrated Paula Baniszewski and her mother as being the most enthusiastic participants in Likens's abuse and torture. [133]

A mother of seven children and a 15-year-old boy were arrested on preliminary charges of murder last night after they were implicated in the death of a sixteen-year-old girl who had been tortured and murdered. Investigators said a sister of the victim told them at least three of the woman’s children took part in some of the beatings while the victim, Sylvia Marie Likens, was bound and gagged. work well together and that is rare, were not interested in competing oh I hate idiots with that mind set. I would just do the book here Serene or start a newJohn Dean was born June 16, 1940, in Rushville, Indiana. He is a graduate of Indiana University and the Northwestern University School of Law. In La psychologie des foules, 1895, translated a year later as The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind in English, Gustave le Bon proposed a theory of the “group mind,” an unconscious force created by a contagion of feeling that quivers through its multiple individual parts to become a single mental reality. “ The crowd is credulous and readily influenced by suggestion.” In the grip of this contagion mentale, a person enters a kind of hypnotic trance. His conscious personality vanishes, and he moves to the rhythms of the greater whole. Crowds, le Bon’s theory goes, are impulsive, irritable, irrational, volatile, and morally righteous. They become, he maintained, like those beings who are insufficiently evolved—“women,” “children,” and “savages.” Noe, Denise. "The Torturing Death of Sylvia Marie Likens". TruTV. Archived from the original on October 16, 2013 . Retrieved September 27, 2016.

On another occasion, in late August, Likens was subjected to humiliation when she claimed to have a boyfriend in Long Beach, whom she had met in the spring of 1965 when her family lived in California. [31] In response, Gertrude asked if Sylvia had "ever done anything with a boy" to which Likens—unsure of her meaning—replied, "I guess so," and explained that she had gone skating with boys there, and had once gone to a park on the beach with them. Continuing the conversation with Jenny and Stephanie, Sylvia mentioned that she had once laid under the covers with her boyfriend. Upon hearing this, Gertrude asked, "Why did you do that, Sylvia?" Likens replied, "I don't know," and shrugged. Several days later, Gertrude returned to the subject with Likens, telling her, "You're certainly getting big in the stomach, Sylvia. It looks like you're going to have a baby." Likens thought Gertrude was kidding with her and said, "Yeah, it sure is getting big. I'm just going to have to go on a diet." Physical and mental torment such as this would occasionally pause when the Baniszewskis watched their favorite television shows. [64] Neighborhood children were also occasionally charged five cents apiece to see the "display" of Likens's body and to humiliate, beat, scald, [65] burn, and—ultimately— mutilate her. Throughout Likens's captivity in the basement, Gertrude frequently, with the assistance of her children and neighborhood children, restrained and gagged Likens before placing her in a bathtub filled with scalding water and proceeding to rub salt into her wounds. [66] [12]

An Entire Neighborhood Joins Gertrude Baniszewski In The Torture

Jury Convicts Torturers in Girl's Death". The Gettysburg Times. May 19, 1966 . Retrieved May 4, 2019. Initially, Gertrude denied any involvement in Likens's death, although by October 27 she had confessed to having known "the kids," particularly her daughter Paula and Coy Hubbard, had physically and emotionally abused Likens, stating: "Paula did most of the damage," and "Coy Hubbard did a lot of the beating." [98] Gertrude further admitted to having forced the girl to sleep in the basement on approximately three occasions when she had wet the bed. She became evasive when one officer stated the likely reasons Likens had become incontinent were her mental distress and injury to her kidneys. [99] Green, Ryan (2018). Torture Mom: A Chilling True Story of Confinement, Mutilation and Murder. Herefordshire, England: Self-published. ISBN 978-1-7209-7355-3. OCLC 1082265619.

There is a picture: a grainy photograph of Gertrude Baniszewski in the newspaper, a gaunt, scowling visage fit for a Grimm brothers’ ogress. She had chronic asthma, and she chain-smoked. During her trial testimony she denied everything. The children had lied to police, had lied on the stand. She moaned about her illness, the drugs she had to take, and how tired she was. She was lying down. She was asleep. She slept through the horrors. The kids must have done it. George Rice began his closing argument by decrying the fact Paula and the other defendants had been tried jointly. Sidestepping the multiple instances of testimony delivered at trial describing Paula and her mother as by far the most enthusiastic participants in Likens's physical abuse, Rice claimed the evidence presented against his client did not equate to her actual guilt of murder. He then ended his closing argument with a plea for the jury to return a verdict of not guilty on a girl who had "gone through the indignity of being tried in an open court". [36] Whatever legal niceties might have been involved in determining the name of the accused woman, the courts and news organizations finally settled on Baniszewski as the name that met the standards of legitimacy.Torture Death Jury Naming Gioes Slowly". The Indianapolis Monthly. April 21, 1966 . Retrieved June 8, 2019. In June 2001, a six-foot-tall (1.8m) granite memorial was formally dedicated to Sylvia Likens's life and legacy in Willard Park, Washington Street, Indianapolis. This dedication was attended by several hundred people, including members of the Likens family. The memorial itself is inscribed with these words: "This memorial is in memory of a young child who died a tragic death. As a result, laws changed and awareness increased. This is a commitment to our children, that the Indianapolis Police Department is working to make this a safe city for our children." [190] I see a light: During the trial, it became clear that Sylvia had not been officially or technically “raped.” According to the coroner who examined her body, her labia and vagina were swollen from external assaults, but her hymen was intact.

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