The film entitled “An American Crime”, is about a young girl name Sylvia Likens that was murdered and physically abused by her caregiver Gertrude Baniszewski and her children. Gertrude was a church member in the community that the Likens family had just moved in. Sylvia and Jenny parents were split, they lived with their mother while their father was on the road working. In July 1965, the father came back into town to get the mother and they decided to leave the kids with Gertrude while they were out on the road, in which he would pay her weekly for keeping the girls. Due to the girl’s parent’s check being late, Gertrude commenced to get physical with the girls. After living with the Baniszewski’s for a few weeks the abuse began to worsen.