Justice?

I have just watched the most horrific film I have ever seen. Jack Ketchum's 'The Girl Next Door', which is based on a true story of a girl, Sylvia Likens, who at age 16, was tortured and killed slowly by Gertrude Baniszewski, the 'responsible adult' and her long-term babysitter at the time, along with her son, two daughters and various other neighborhood kids.


These evil excuses for human beings burnt 'I am a prostitute and proud of it' in the girl's stomach with a searing hot sewing pin, forced stripteases in which Baniszewski would encourage the children to force coke bottles into her, and pushed her into scalding hot water baths. The girl died after the needle incident. It was described as "the most terrible crime in Indiana's history".


Gertrude Baniszewski received a life sentence, but was released before she died. She died of lung cancer and from the perspective of someone who has watched a family member die of lung cancer, I never thought I would wish it on anyone but Baniszewski deserved worse. Her daughter Paula, an active (and old enough to know better) participant in the torture received only a few years in prison. 


John Baniszewski, Coy Hubbard and Richard Hobbs, all around Sylvia's age, and therefore well aware of the brevity of their actions, received 18 months each in a juvenile detention facility. Stephanie Baniszewski, Anna Siscoe, Judy Duke, Randy Lepper and Mike Monroe were let off scot free.  My mum teaches 10 years olds. All of them are aware murder and torture is wrong. There are all of these people walking around who took a human life and didn't get any punishment for it at all.


John Baniszewki, now known as John Blake claims he found God and now serves as a lay pastor. Stephanie Baniszewski became a school teacher (actually dealing with kids...), Richard Hobbs died at 21 of cancer. And the real kicker? Coy Hubbard was actually persecuted later for two more murders. Two men died because the law didn't do its job and put guilty, evil people behind bars. 


These people are walking free. I'm in shock watching/reading about this. They took a girl's life, with the sister around ensuring she would be tortured mentally, and tore apart a family. And they get a free life, teaching kids, preaching about how to be good people. Yeah. Right.