The couple had two children, although she remained traumatized by the abuse she had been forced to watch her sister endure. Several decades after his release from the Indiana Reformatory — John Baniszewski Jr. issued a statement in which he acknowledged the fact he and his co-defendants should have been sentenced to a more severe term of punishment, adding that young criminals are not beyond rehabilitation and describing how he had become a productive citizen. The murder charges initially filed against Gertrude Baniszewski’s second-eldest daughter (15-year-old Stephanie), were ultimately dropped after she agreed to turn state’s evidence against the other defendants.

On April 16, Leroy K. New and Marjorie Wessner, part of the prosecution team, declared their aim to pursue the death penalty for all five defendants. Released from custody on a habeas corpus bond, Stephanie Baniszewski had her attorney successfully argue three weeks before the indictments were filed that the state lacked enough evidence to support any charges of murder or fatal injuries against her. Without expressing any remorse, Paula admitted in a statement to having repeatedly struck Likens with her mother’s police belt, once injuring Likens’s wrist on her jaw, along with committing other brutal acts such as pushing her down the basement stairs “two or three times” and giving her a black eye. Turning to her younger sister Shirley — Stephanie exclaimed, “Oh! She’ll be okay! After slipping on the wet stairs leading to the basement, he fell heavily and was met with the sight of Stephanie crying while holding the malnourished and injured body of Likens, whom she had been instructed by her mother to clean.

The jury took 17 days to deliberate after the trial of the five defendants concluded. In his trans eecort closing argument (Nedder concluded by asking for a not guilty verdict), asserting that Hobbs was “guilty of immaturity and gross lack of judgement,” but not of murder. He described Jenny’s overall inaction in notifying authorities about her sister’s abuse until after her death, claiming she was “a sister who could manage to limp three-and-a-half miles to a park but couldn’t walk a few steps into New York Street to seek help! George Rice opened his closing argument by criticizing the joint trial of Paula and the other defendants. As Wessner recounted the ongoing abuse that Likens suffered prior to her death, all defendants, except Richard Hobbs, remained stoic, stressing that at no time did Likens provoke any of them or receive medical attention beyond occasionally having margarine applied to her scalded face and body. Paula’s boastful finale was captured in Sargent’s testimony, where she declared, “I tried to kill her!

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At times, she found herself tied to the basement stairs railing, her feet barely grazing the ground. On October 6, as punishment for her incontinence, Gertrude tossed Likens into the basement and restrained her. However (Gertrude denied Dianna entry to the property), claiming she had “received permission” from their parents to prevent either girl from visiting. Dianna Shoemaker found out her sisters were at the Baniszewski residence around October 1. Initially, both sisters regarded Gertrude as the perfect caregiver and had visited the Baniszewski home on two occasions while under Gertrude’s care.

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On one occasion (Gertrude and her twelve-year-old son), John Jr., rubbed urine and feces from Gertrude’s one-year-old son’s diaper into Likens’s mouth before giving her a cup half-filled with water and stating the water was all she would receive for the remainder of the day. Throughout Likens’s captivity in the basement (Gertrude frequently), with the assistance of her children and neighborhood children, restrained and gagged Likens before placing her in a bathtub filled with scalding water and proceeding to rub salt into her wounds. In the weeks prior to locking Likens in the family basement, Gertrude had increasingly abused and tormented Likens.