What was hard to see were the neighborhood children (not teenagers) participating in the repeated torture of Sylvia in the basement without remorse, thinking they were doing nothing wrong, and this was in 1965. How could these children carry out such horrific crimes and not think a thing about it? How could the screams of Sylvia with each torment not phase them? There has been so much desensitization today with what is out there, but in 1965 among children, this was unheard of.
Review of An American Crime
