Ruby Klokow
One thing that often bothers me when discussing crimes with the general public is it is often inevitable that someone will look at a crime that happened several decades prior and cannot comprehend how the crime was able to take place without someone stepping in and stopping it beforehand. I have often been chastised in open forum as I try to explain to people that we cannot judge innocent bystanders from decades ago because their way of life was much more different than ours. One particular case that this issue comes up is the Sylvia Likens case. Sylvia was a sixteen year old girl who was beaten and tortured to death not just by the woman who was being paid to care for her but from the woman's children and even neighborhood children in Indianapolis Indiana in 1965. The woman in the case (I have blogged about this one) was a divorced mother with several children of her own and had taken in Sylvia and her sister. Neighbors heard things such as cries from children and o...