Gertrude Baniszewski, the "torture mother."
Now For the Female folks Gertrude Baniszewski, the "torture mother." (Psychopath , Black Widow , Manipulator, gang leader ,Torturer , sexual predator ) Nope nope it’s not just an African thing nope! Now This is your typical Nollywood Step-Mother In 1965 police found the emaciated body of 16-year-old Indianapolis resident, Sylvia Likens. She was covered in cigarette burns and sprawled out on a filthy mattress in the home of 37-year-old Gertrude Baniszewski, according to Indianapolis Monthly. Sylvia and her sister Jenny boarded with Baniszewski because their parents were carnival-workers and traveled a lot. The girls' father paid Baniszewski $20 a week in exchange for housing his daughters. If the money arrived late and Baniszewski took out her anger on the girls. Eventually, she focused her beatings on Sylvia, alone. But, this wasn't a crime of an adult beating on a child; Baniszewski was the mother of seven children, all of whom lived in the house and partook in