Iowa teacher's aide fired after district learns of her role in Indiana girl's Killing

[SheHateMe]

An Iowa teacher's aide was fired Tuesday after school officials recently learned she was the member of an Indianapolis family who tortured and killed a girl in the basement of their home in 1965.


The district was notified by Grundy County Sheriff Rick Penning, who said his office received an anonymous telephone call last Wednesday informing him that Pace was Paula Baniszewski, formerly of Indianapolis, who had been convicted of manslaughter for participating in the torture and murder of 16-year-old Sylvia Likens in 1965.


Penning said his officers investigated the case and found that Pace had completed her prison sentence and was released on parole.
The case has been referred to as one of the most notorious crimes in Indianapolis. The story has generated fiction and nonfiction books, a play and movies including the 2007 dramas "An American Crime" and "The Girl Next Door."

The case begins when Sylvia Likens and her sister, Jenny, were left by their parents with Gertrude Baniszewski and her seven children in the summer of 1965. In the following months, Sylvia was beaten, burned with cigarettes, branded with a hot needle, and suffered other abuse. Her malnourished body was found in the basement of the home Baniszewski rented on Oct. 26, 1965. The cause of death was brain swelling and internal bleeding of the brain.

I've seen those movies and read about the case. They did some horrible things to that girl...really horrible things...things that should nobody should ever have happen to them.

Source: Faux Snooze

 

[werepossum]

Anyone associated with the care and education of children should be thoroughly vetted before being hired. There's no excuse for a school district finding out that one of their teachers' aides is a paroled torturer/murderer, and the mere fact that someone has served her sentence does not mean she should be acceptable for every job.

And I'm baffled as to why she's out when she's still young enough to be a teacher's aide.