Film: An American Crime

I just watched this film, An American Crime and had a heavy heart. The film is adapted from real crime case occurred in Indiana in 1965. It tells true story of Sylvia Linken's misery and death.

Sylvia's parents were carnival workers. They went on tour all the time and have to leave Sylvia and her sister, Jenny to Ms. Gertrude Baniszewski to take care of them. Ms. Baniszewski, will get 20 dollars every week as return. She whipped sylvia first time because the check from Sylvia's parents did not arrive on time. Later, she begin to torture her for no clear reasons and scared Jenny not to tell the truth to their parents. Gertrude abet her kids to torture Sylvia, too. Finally, Sylvia died at one night.

The neighbors listened what happened, but they did not even try to stop it. Sylvia's parent left their kids to a stranger for living. Jenny did not call their parents, becasue she was afraid of getting the same treatment. How stoniness are these people!