What is Sylvia Likens?
{{Infobox person | name = Sylvia Likens | image = | caption = | birth_name = Sylvia Marie Likens | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1949|01|03}} | birth_place = [[Lebanon, Indiana|Lebanon]], [[Indiana]], [[United States]] | death_date = 26 or 27 October 1965 (aged 16) | death_place = [[Indianapolis, Indiana|Indianapolis]], [[Indiana]], [[United States]] | death_cause = [[Subdural hematoma]], [[head injury]], [[circulatory shock]], and [[malnutrition]] which includes: [[starvation]] and [[dehydration]], and plausible but unconfirmed [[asphyxia]] | known_for = American [[abduction]], [[rape]], and [[torture murder]] victim | father = Lester Likens | mother = Elizabeth Likens | relatives = 4 siblings }} '''Sylvia Marie Likens''' ({{birth date|df=yes|1949|01|03}}{{spnd}}26 or 27 October 1965), often referred to as '''Sylvia Likens''', was a American [[abduction]], [[rape]], and [[torture murder]] victim. She was [[Abduction|abducted]], [[Neglect|neglected]], [[Starvation|starved]], [[Dehydtation|dehydrated]], [[Malnutrition|malnourished]], [[Combustion|combusted]], [[Flaying|flayed]], [[receded]], [[skin eroded]], [[Branding|branded]], [[Torment|tormented]], [[Choking|choked]], [[bludgeoned]], [[Scalding|scalded]], [[Degradation|degradated]], [[Humiliation|sexually humiliated]], [[insulted]], [[Circulatory shock|circulatory shocked]], [[Assault|physically and sexually assaulted]], [[Mutilation|mutilated]], [[Rape|raped]], [[Torture|tortured]], and [[Murder|murdered]], by her caregiver and eventual abductor Gertrude Baniszewski, Baniszewski's children, and Baniszewski's acquaintances. After her abduction, Sylvia Likens endured three weeks of torture under her caregiver, her children, and her acquaintances, before her death. At the time of her death, Likens suffered somewhere between 100 to 150 seperate wounds all over her body, head injury, [[subdural hematoma]], bleeding of the head and a