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  • The movie was different to the real life story but they are both horrific RIP Sylvia

  • The movie was good but it can't capture the brutal reality of this innocent girl...Hellen Page is mindblowing though....she is so good in this movie!!!

  • if only i had been there .

  • VIEJA PUTA

  • Is there a movie of her story??

  • @Chankiez85 No,it's not "The Girl next door".It's called "An American Crime".Really touching and cruel movie:( "The Girl next door" is based on the Sylvia Likens story too,but this is just completely bullshit.

  • Is there a movie of her story??

  • @Chankiez85 it is called the girl next door

  • @Chankiez85 Yes actually two but American crime is the actual one...There is also the girl next door but it is only based on the idea of Sylvia's life and the rest is fiction.

  • My friends grampa got the privilige to meet sylvia, when she lived elsewhere. he said she was very kind and sort of shy. :(

  • I wish I was there to protect her

  • @MrFrendkq287316 Sylvia was abused not only by Gertrude but her kids their friends and her second's daughter's boyfriend would practice stuff on her like karate kicks and eventually Sylvia was put in the basement without food, water or clothes for days. When Gertude came down to see Sylvia she would burn her with cigarettes and matches, before Sylvia died Gertrude branded her and craved I'm a prostitue and proud of it on Sylvia's stomach. If you want to know more go to trutv.com

  • @MrFrendkq287316 Sylvia's parents were carnival travelers and they went on and off in their marriage they were together they were split up. Sylvia and Jenny met Paula Gertrude's daughter one day and they became friends. Their father came lookng for them he met Gertrude, Lester told Gertrude of his problem she offered to bored the girls for $20 a week, when the first payment to Gerturde didn't show up she punished the girls, eventually she took all her anger and frustration out on Sylvia.

  • I mean to her

  • Can someone explain the story to me what happened to me?

  • that house was around the corner from where i live Now

  • she died in my city where i live this is creepy

  • What they did to Sylvia was horrible and the fact that so many people knew about it and did nothing is even worse. No one deserves what she went through. No one. Humans are sick. they are the worst animals ever to roam the planet. I can't belive anyone would do this just for fun... Gertrude and everyone involved should of been made to go through what they made sylvia go through and see how long they last. i bet you they wouldn't even last 10 seconds...

  • @KateW6598 the fact that this abuse happened sometimes makes me lose respect for the human race

  • even a prison sentence DOESN´T SERVE JUSTICE!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @whocarexxx - even a prison sentence DOESN´T SERVE JUSTICE!!!!!!!!!!!

    20 years for one of the most brutal crimes against another human being. An absoluite disgrace, shame on the parole board.. The witch should have received 20 years just for "cruel and unusual punishment", and then LIFE on top of that for muder. All this murderer had to do to gain sympathy from the bleeding hearts, was to turn to religion. Funny how so many scum buckets find God AFTER they are locked away.

  • noe who junko furuta was?? that crime is more worse and terrifying! i know its hard to believe there is something worse then this but there is

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  • Who ever ,disliked it had a really unkind heart

  • this music sounds familiar.  what is it?

  • That was really sadd :( xx

  • @MyDearlndigoRose never heard that name before!!!!

  • @zeuslives11 Ellen Page is the actress who plays Sylvia in the movie An American Crime (the girl in this video)

  • noone deserves what sylvia went through, its disgusting what the human race does to each other for kicks.

  • a wise choice to pick an excellent, ambient song for this video

  • i bet silva ghost hunts the people who killed her

  • What kind of an adult and parent encourages and instigates torture on a young girl, using other children - her own and some from the neighborhood - to help carry it out?

    Not to mention Gertrude never took responsibility for what she did and blamed the kids when it probably wouldn't have happened if she hadn't manipulated the situation. It's sad that all the kids involved were used, manipulated and mistreated because one woman couldn't resist the demons of her soul.

  • @zeuslives11 you dont know who ellen is?!?! shes amazing! have you ever seen juno or inception or whip it?

  • @pinchi3 who is ellen page????

  • Picking Ellen page for that role, which is my personal symblol for anything who's innocent and pure, And doing that kind of thing to her - simply itself - fucking terrible.

  • @MeLoveMusiic i want to know who in the fuck is ellen page!!!!

  • they killed that poor angel!!!!:,(

  • I just don't understand what will make a human being do something like this to another human we are all suppose to be family

  • It's things like this that add fuel to hatred for the human race. What a disgusting person to even consider such an act on such an innocent person. Gertrude can burn for all I care.

  • Ellen Page is GOD

  • If I knew somebody was being tortured like that I would tell someone and save them right away.

  • The sad part of this is that it is a true story. Everyday in America and around the world, children are abused, tortured, raped, starved, beaten, and murdered. God have mercy on our children. Believe this to be true - the guilty will stand before God and it will be better that a mill stone be tied around their necks! Victims like this have no where to run, especially back in the 1960's. Jenny could not save her sister, can you imagine the grief she lives through daily? God be with the children.

  • If I was Sylvia, I would of ran away. Anywhere must be better than there. Did she at least attempt to run away?

  • @iPWNNAGEE She couldn't. She was to injured to move out of there. Plus most of them would have seen her.

  • @iPWNNAGEE But In real life, she tried to but Gertrude got her and punished her again.

  • To Dear Silvia Likens RIP (Rest in peace)

    To Bi*tc* F****** Wh*r* Prosti**** Moth** F***** Gretrude Baniszewski BIH (Burn in HELL!!!) ROOOOOOOTTTTTTEEEEEE IN HEEEELLLL WITH ALLL OF UR BIT** PROSTI**** DAUGHTERS & SON!!!!! AND EVERYONE WHO HAS PARTICIPATED!!!!!!

    GRRRRRR !!!!

    IM

    SOOOOOOO ANGRYYYYYYYY!!!!!

  • Rest In Peace Sylvia Likens

  • @BieberBaby818 who dat????

  • @MeLoveMusiic who the fuck is ellen page????

  • @salsancheznumber1fan Juno!!!!

  • I never knew this was a true story. I was just watching life time movies about child abuse and came across it. Im sorry about what happened to Sylvia. I can imagine how terrified she must have beeen.

  • poor girl rest in peace shes so pretty thats so sad ;(

  • Ellen Page is awesome!

  • some people have far too much time on their hands, this video is crap...its just a load of looong slooow scenes of people frowning or crying...how is this in memory of Sylvia Likens? And for the twat who thinks her grandmother knew her godmother, what an attention seeking liar, and the 68 retards who believed her, do you not wonder why her godmother didnt do something about all this?

  • SHE LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE MY FRIEND IN THIS MOVIE *.*

  • R.I.P She Was Beautiful :/ Rest In Peace .

  • sylvia was beautiful

  • You know,I'f i'm an animal,i swear i will get revenge on all of you except for kind people!

  • she suffers no more god has her in his arms she is safe

  • if i was Sylvia i would've haunted every single one of those monsters until the day they died

  • думаю, каждый должен посмотреть этот фильм в память о Сильвии, для того, чтобы увидеть и запомнит ее страдания, потому, что если мы будем их помнить, то есть шанс, что мы их не совершим.

  • Her Parents/Neighbours who did not get involved/Anyone who knew this was happen and refused to help or get help are to blame for the shame and anguish of Sylvia Likens.

  • @Shannonisastar her parents didnt know this was happening

  • I wouldent havee punishedd thee kidss they didnt noe any better well Yea the older one of course but not the little one they only did what they were told they didnt noe any better thats how they were raised theere mom taught them to be like that i feel badd for those little kids they just didnt want the punishment they were giving slyvia

  • The thing that pisses me off about this movie is that it tricks you into thinking there's gonna be a happy ending but oh no it was all in her mind -____- I guess it made more of an impact I guess. Watch the movie to know what I'm talking about.

  • @PhantomsBabe  lol yes i was like omg i thoguht she died.. i was thinking like she was gonna go down there and get her lol!

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  • Sometimes I am ashamed to be related to such monsters,who would hurt a child?They don't deserve this when i see this video and know that man kind was the meaning of this it makes me ashamed to be a part of the humane race.

  • Oh Jesus where the f******* are we going a little girl tortured and teared into pieces where is the f******g humanity...........please for all u people i beg u dont hurt small little kids if they do any thing wrong but dont tear them into pieces damit........please god bless u kid we are sorry that we couldnt save u from filthy nasty son of a bitch....

  • which movie is better (didnt see anyone yet) - an american crime or the girl next door? suggest one to me ive just read the book and i wanted to watch the movie now. shocking o_O

  • @dud0r I've only seen the girl next door and that is really scary and distubing.. but it is an amazing film with brilliant acting, but like I said be prepared if your going to watch it.

  • SPOLIER>>>>>that's just so horrible sylvia's case ... i really cried thinking she had been saved yet , she only had fell unconscious and had believed she been saved right b4 she died awwwwwwww, truly sad movie but o so intense!

  • song: an ending by brian eno ( genio el señor) , cheers from mexico!, take care.

  • what's the name of the song?

  • This is a beautiful video collage that you've put together from the movie scenes, may I ask who the music track is by? It sounds very familiar, somewhat like a Frou Frou track.

  • my poor angel have to get murderd!!

  • When I saw the end of this movie at the part where sylvia dies I just cried!I cannot believe anyone would do this to her!What did Sylvia do to those kids that made them torment her?She never did anything to her!!!Its not going to help being angry at gertie and her kids.You guys are all angry because you wished u would've helped sylvia right?Well we can't. All we can do is pray for Sylvia and hope she's in heaven.

  • What did that fucker do to this poor girl? Someone tell me

  • those children saying i don´t know sir when they were asked why were they doing those horrible things make me sick!!! i really believe evil as well as good can be found in anything-anyone, and i´m not even religious... even in 6 years old kids, whatever :S

  • U swear if i hd one wish i would wish that i could go back one hour in 1965 in indanapolis and i would take syliva with me.

  • poor poor girl wow how can some body do that to a 16 year old

  • is sad what they did to her

  • could someone help me out and let me know the name of this movie?

  • @Dimebag204 An american Crime

  • @Dapeo123 thanks!

  • The mother (Gertrude I think) was a hag, the actress for her role in this movie was a lot better looking ! I wonder why they did that....

  • it would have took en a soldier to kill gertrude!!<:(...........

  • This was ssuch a sad movie!! :(

  • If yoiu want to see the new picture of Sylvia when she was only 8 yrs old, watch this video:

    /watch?v=ogjZtrUBSak

  • yeah this was sad, and don't forget about Emmit Tiel. The little black kid not even a teenager who was accused of whistling at a white woman inside of a convenient store. Later on, during the night a group of adult white men kidnapped him and took them to a barn and literally pulverised the little boy for something none other than being black. They beat that kid until he was a hamburger meat. All the suspected men were acquitted. I bet you, there will be no full feature film about little Emitt

  • it was 1965 thats why...........

  • Maybe i am not fully understanding the situation,but she was sixteen why did she have a sitter.And most sixteen olds i know would fight back or never go back to the house.

  • Hadn't heard of this crime or this movie till 5 minutes ago. Can't beleive this happened. Horrible. Poor girl

  • i still dont get it what happened???

    ive searched this up and dont get a thing

    please explain.

  • @nentendofan what don't you get that happend? i would be glad to explain.

    charlotte

    x

  • @devilchild2210 i totally get it now thankss anyways

    hey did this relly happen?

  • @nentendofan yeah it really happend :( xxx

  • Is that slut fucking smiling. Fucking whore.

  • 99% of the time I never shy away from movies, no matter how devastating, weird, scary etc. they may be. But this is that 1% where I'm never going to watch this movie.

    It's just too heartbreaking. I've read about that case and I've been deeply affected by it and I just don't see how someone so INNOCENT can be destroyed.

    Her own Dad neglected her by handing her over to a stranger, and then to make matters even worse, the stranger kills her!!

    I swear, I don't have any respect for the human race.

  • @madeyes4u the movie i will never watch is Aurore. I watched the Hot Poker scene and about had a heart attack. I will NEVER watch that movie the whole way through

  • Totally disturbing account in a movie , obviously more so seeing/reading actual accounts and pictures of the shortened life of this beautiful girl. Humanity at its worst. I wish we could go back and time and save her.

  • I wish I could see this movie...

  • @lildovefeather All the parts of the movie are here in Utube. on the main menu search on "An American Crime" plus other unhappy rememberances. Good luck and stay safe

  • Thanks! I will go though them all one of these days. I do want to find a copy, though. I hope I see it in video stores here. Meanwhile, I did a research on this case after seeing thee clips. Whoah! Gertrude and the kids were one sick bunch!

  • huhhhhhhh

  • I did my grade 8 speech on this and 3 people in my class were crying.

  • One word can only came to mind in describing this video Beautiful, Another word to describe what happened is Tragic. 5 stars

  • TRIAL TRANSCRIPTS

    Anyone who wants the trial transcripts just private message me from my channel (I will then assess your suitability to read heavy stuff like the details of her death by Dr. Ellis the pathologist in charge -- in other words it's only for grown up, mature individuals and for people with perfect English)

  • nope!!

  • Is this a movie

  • that was not her daughter it was her neice...this is so inhuman how could you do this to someone in your family?? someone you care about?...anyone for that matter..... this is terrible

    another good movie is the girl next door or the book the girl next door

    this is absolulutly horrible and sick

  • marchinggirl57-Sylvia and her sister met Gertrudes' children on the street and befriended them. Their parents were carnival people that needed to travel and their father asked Gertrude to look after the girls while they were gone.She did for 20.00$ a week. Their father didn't know Gertrude at all and didn't know she was a psycho. I am always deeply disturbed by this horror story! Rest in peace, Sylvia.:'(

  • @marchingirl57 nope...they're not related...

  • Can someone upload this whole movie? It looks really good. Was Sylvia that womans daughter? Why would she do that stuff to her own children? That's just sick.

  • Sylvia was a friend of her daughters' who came to board there while her own parents were away working at the carnival. The movie is excellent.

  • @Livia116 It has been uploaded. It's all in ten minute parts here on YT.

  • the movie is on youtube it is called an american crime

  • my grandmother was her godmother, she says she misses sylvia everyday

  • My father was her cousin's godfather.... Such a sad story

  • What a coincidence.... she was my father's god child. Sad really !

  • you have no idea how freaky that is!!!

  • Yup !

  • holy crap it's like we're related!!!! my long lost family member at last!!

  • And that's only no my father's side.

  • You sick lieing piece of shit this isnt fucking funny.

  • @Clwsfan864 omg i feel sorry for her

  • @Clwsfan864 this is a movie stupid. and it was in 1965

  • @funnyangel1234 yeah but this movie was based on a sad true story and it really did happen.

  • @Clwsfan864 tell your f=grandma that at least shes not suffering anymore and that hope she rests in peace

  • @Clwsfan864 if your lying that so fucked up its not even funny.

  • @lil2ray21 I'm not lying, i wouldn't lie about something or someone who went through hell. you have my word

  • @Clwsfan864 hello, was your grandmother was really her godmother?

  • @vampiregirl1788 yes, she was. She had a picture of her in an album that she showed me of sylvia when she was about 6 maybe 7

  • @Clwsfan864 fuck off she was your lying and should be ashamed of yourself

  • @Clwsfan864 50 people believe this shit your grandmother didn't know her your just trying to get attention

  • nope she died in one of the banizewski bedrooms up stairs..

  • I love the video and the song's video, what's it called? someone can name me?

    Thank you very much!

  • noo she didn't. like as she was dying she was dreaming about what she wished would've happened aka finding her parents and being safe and protected but instead she just dies like in the kitchen of gertrudes house

  • at 3:09 she is with her dad. Does she go back home with her parents? I've never seen this movie, so someone explain!

  • @ChocoCat300 no she dosen't. what happens is she's dreaming that she went home to her parents, and they saved her, but they make her go back to Gurteys house to get Jenny, and thats when Sylvia walks in and sees herself dead.

  • @X33RIOT THANKS! Dang. that's pretty... sheesh. I don't think i could ever sit through this. I was like in tears at the trailer. haha

  • well an american crime isnt really all that great of a movie. a girl next door, shows a WAY better like idk of what her life was like. its so much better. haha and it was a sad movie, very sad.

  • @X33RIOT Really??? I saw a girl next door and it wasn't that great. But if it shows what her life was like better, then I guess An American Crime was bad. Hmph. I thought it was gonna be good because Ellen Page was in in :)

  • nahh, american crime got alot of things wrong. if your into reading, i suggest the book "indiana torture slaying" its the book on Sylvia Likens. its really good.

  • So THATS what it's called...

    I've been trying to find the book about her for a while. Thanks.

  • why did my angel have to die :',(

  • Poor Sylvia seriously that people deserves more than hell

  • it makes me sad to think we all know that something like this can be happening right now to someone we don't even know R.I.P SYLVIA.

    And it's a torment for me to know worse cases. These things made me open my eyes and see what the world really is.

  • it is a horrible thing to see or even think that someone would do this to an innocent person...RIP

  • @PkSver007 the point is that from the murderer's point of view, there are no innocents.

  • by the way, if you're interested there's another horrible criminal case '' JUNKO FURUTA'' look for her RIP junko

  • ich kann es einf. net i. worte fassen, aber nachd. i "an american crime" gesehn hab, kann i f. 1 lange zeit an nix anders mehr denken...sylvia du warst ein "engel auf erden", & die 1 prostituierte warn die benezwseki`s paula & alle andern.Als i las was aus JOHN gewordn is, wurd i so

    wütend!es sollten 1 ALLE v. denen i. d. Hölle brennen 4-ever!GERTY hatte unrecht & war eifers. auf dein leben, denn du hattest ein besseres als sie & vers. deins kaputt zu machn,i find es solltn alle verurt. werdn

  • i am jus so hurt that thay did that to that gurl how sad thay all need to brun i hell an iam glad that bitch die i have never seen the movie an dont want to cuz i makes me sad and want to cry but now she is wit god an nobody can hurt her no more an wht happen to the sister

  • @teresabyrd1 who are you talking about when you say "an iam glad that bitch die" sylvia or the mom of that family i think it's gertie???

  • that's true I think they took advantage of her.rest in peace Sylvia

  • i will never understand will people do these things?

  • i NEVER could why my mother did these things to me ! i never learned to drive a car ...im 56 now . and STILL FEAR HER . i was not allowed to listen to the radio , nor talk on the phone . DID ALL THE HOUSEWORK, cooked and took care of my other brothers and sisters too. NOW THEY ALL HATE ME BEACUSE i dont TALK TO HER . THAT I CURSE HER . My dad did NOTHING . was kicked around untill i was 21 . it would have been better if would have been killed by her then to be beaten everydat

  • @weespookyme no one will even those who do it never will

  • this is a story that stays with you forever!!:(

  • RIP Sylvia Marie Likens, you will not be forgotten. I think its important to report to the police if you hear anything that sounds out of the norm. because thats what the neighboors did, if they would've reported or something then she still would be alive today.

  • right. it's a heroic thing to do to give a damn and try to reach out to someone.

  • I pray by god take this gift into your hands and accept this girl with your life! I pray to you sylvie your death made me cry for hours i am a man i need to suck it up but when it comes to you i will never ever do a single thing to you even i was invited i rather be the shit out of your mother than you and have u replaced and let me get tortured and die for you. if i ever see u in the second life i will hail to u as a slave and cry and cry because how much you mean to us people. <33333333 *cry*

  • if i ever met that bitch that did that sylvia i would have done the same things to her like wat she did to sylvia and her sister. but it would way worse. i hope the devil makes her pay with no mercy AT ALL. sylvia is in a better place now. and i hope that bitches chrildern will rot in hell with there mother. and those teens that hurt her so badly. all my prayers go with sylvia.

  • considering she died after like 3 years after being released from prison that day wont come

    i know wat your thinking and yes, she did get out, on good behavior of all things

  • When I read she got out on good behavior I wanted to throw up!

    Just a month or so ago, they were wanting to release Susan Adkins to die at home because she had brain cancer. I'm glad they didn't.

    Maybe these women "did" make their peace with God and were trying to pay their debt to society. Even so, they were where they needed to be and I'm of the opinion they needed to stay there.

  • la pelicula esta increible me hiso llorar y reflexionar varias cosas este es el peor caso que an tenido los estado unidos verdaderamente un crimen americano

  • Powerful Movie. Ellen Page is a superb actress but the movie was so upsetting that it can't be watched twice.

  • I have to agree, when that boy bought the other teens in I had a fit, I was sobbing before it even ended. They all need to burn in Hell everyone one of them.

  • i hope sylvia rests in peace and i hope that bitch rots inh ell for wat she did to sylvia. and i hope god doesnt show any mercy to that bitch for wat she did to sylvia. MAY SYLVIA LIKENS REST IN PEACE AND MY GOD BLESS HER SOUL SHE WAS GOOD GIRL. this movie made me sick to my stomach it was so disgusting. poor sylvia likens.

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  • this is a hard film to watch was in tear watching it there in the movie is good actress that poor girl hope shes at rest now

  • what is the film?