The Child That Was Tortured and Murdered by a Neighbourhood

Sylvia Likens endured months of sickening abuse before she was killed by the people who were supposed to look after her.

Sylvia Likens. John Jr Baniszewski and Gertrude Baniszewski. Via Wikimedia Commons.

The autopsy of the sixteen-year-old girl from Indiana read like that of a horror movie. Her skin had receded, and she had open wounds nearly down to the bone. She…