Sylvia Likens
(1949-1965)
american torture and murder victim
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The murder of Sylvia Likens was a child murder that occurred in Indianapolis, Indiana in October 1965. Likens, aged 16, was held captive and subjected to increasing levels of child abuse and torture—committed over a period of almost three months—by her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, many of Baniszewski's children, and several other neighborhood children, before ultimately succumbing to her injuries on October 26.
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Sylvia Marie Likens 3 January 1949 Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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26 October 1965 (aged 16) Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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