This is easily one of the worst cases I've read about. I'm not going to break it down a lot, you can read if you are interested. Link's here.
I'll give a few excerpts.
Wikipedia said:It looks like you're going to have a baby." Likens thought Gertrude was kidding with her and said, "Yeah, it sure is getting big. I'm just going to have to go on a diet." However, Gertrude then informed her, and the other girls in the house, that whenever they "did something" with a boy, they would be sure to have a baby. She then kicked Likens in the genitals. Paula now joined in; knocking Likens off her chair and onto the kitchen floor, she scolded, "You ain't fit to sit in a chair!"[37] On another occasion—as the family ate supper—Gertrude, Paula, and a neighborhood boy named Randy Gordon Lepper, force-fed Likens a hot dog overloaded with condiments, including mustard, ketchup and spices. Likens vomited as a result, and was later forced to consume what she had regurgitated.[38][39]
Wikipedia said:With the active encouragement of Gertrude, these neighborhood children routinely beat Likens,[46] sometimes using her as a practice dummy in violent judo sessions,[47] lacerating her body, burning her skin with lit cigarettes in excess of 100 times,[48] and severely injuring her genitals.[49] To entertain Gertrude and her teenage accomplices, Likens was forced at one point to strip naked in the family living room and insert an empty Coca-Cola bottle into her own vagina in their presence,[13][50] with Gertrude stating to all present this act of humiliation being for Sylvia to "prove to Jenny what kind of a girl you are."[51]
Wikipedia said:Neighborhood children were also occasionally charged five cents apiece to see the "display" of Likens' body and to humiliate, beat, scald,[72] burn, and—ultimately—mutilate her. Throughout the period of Likens' captivity in the basement, Gertrude frequently—with the assistance of her children and/or their friends—restrained Likens before placing her in a bathtub filled with scalding water before proceeding to rub salt into her wounds.[73] In order to muffle Likens' screams and pleas for mercy, her tormentors would regularly place a cloth gag in her mouth as they tortured her.[20]
