![]() ![]() The official cause of her death was determined to be a homicide caused by a combination of subdural hematoma and shock, complicated by severe malnutrition. Through intimidation, her younger sister, Jenny, was occasionally forced to participate in her mistreatment. ![]() Her autopsy showed 150 wounds across her body, including several burns, scald marks and eroded skin. Likens was increasingly neglected, belittled, sexually humiliated, beaten, starved, lacerated, burned, and dehydrated by her tormentors. This abuse incrementally lasted for three months before Likens died from her extensive injuries and malnourishment on October 26, 1965, in Indianapolis, Indiana. Sylvia Marie Likens (Janu– October 26, 1965) 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. ![]()
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