This is a police image of Sylvias body after she had been dead for about 8-12 hours. This was a photo of her abdomen;you can see the bruises and cigarette burns on her stomach and arms cause by the many people that participated in her abuse. Gertrude said since Sylvia “branded” her that they are going to brand Sylvia. Gertrude then wrote a “S” in pen, (In the top right of Sylvias ribs,)as sign as branding the poor girl. Richard Hobbs then used a hot iron to burn the“S” into the girls’ skin. The three on her skin was another branding thing. Except Hobbs did half of the three and Shirley Ann did the other half of the three on Sylvias’abdomen.Gertrude also had the idea to put “I’m a prostitute and I’m proud of it.” Yet again Gertrude wrote it out in pen on the poor girls’ stomach and Robbs used a hot iron yet again to burn the letters’ into Sylvias’ skin.