Review of An American Crime (2007) by Steve P — 27 Mar 2011

Child abuse at its worst. Gertrude Baniszewski who looking after the Likens sisters should have hung never mind given parole after twenty years for the atrocities and eventual murder she carried out. The Parent's ...well they should have known better than to leave their two daughters with a unknown women. A good movie but it doesn't show the full horror of the nightmare Sylvia endured throughout her stay with the dysfunctional Baniszewski family.

When she was convicted of first-degree murder in 1966, the case was called "the single worst crime perpetrated against an individual in Indiana's history", although there was a re trial where her sentence was reduced from life to twenty years.