{"id":2299,"date":"2015-10-08T16:25:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T16:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technogypsie.com\/faerie\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2015-10-08T16:25:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T16:25:32","slug":"feral-children-genie-usa-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/lore\/feral-children-genie-usa-1970\/","title":{"rendered":"Feral Children: Genie, USA, 1970"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Cross-posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/feral-children-wild-animals-photos-julia-fullerton-batten\/?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=link&amp;utm_campaign=BPFacebook\">http:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/feral-children-wild-animals-photos-julia-fullerton-batten<\/a> for reference and research.<\/i><\/p>\n<h3>Genie, USA, 1970<\/h3>\n<p class=\"attachment-link-container\"><a class=\"attachment-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/feral-children-wild-animals-photos-julia-fullerton-batten\/?image_id=feral-children-wild-animals-photos-fullerton-batten-12.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-299143\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.boredpanda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/feral-children-wild-animals-photos-fullerton-batten-12.jpg?resize=880%2C661\" alt=\"feral-children-wild-animals-photos-fullerton-batten-12\" width=\"880\" height=\"661\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>When she was a toddler Genie\u0092s father decided she was \u0093retarded\u0094 and restrained her in a child\u0092s toilet seat in a small room of the house. She lived in solitary confinement for more than 10 years. She even slept in the chair. She was 13 years old in 1970 when she and her mother turned up at child services and a social worker noticed her condition. She was still not toilet trained and moved with a strange sideways \u0093bunny-walk.\u0094 She couldn\u0092t speak or make any sound and constantly spat and clawed herself.\u00a0<\/em><em>For years she became a research object. She gradually learned to speak a few words but couldn\u0092t arrange them grammatically. She also began to read simple texts, and developed a limited form of social behaviour.\u00a0<\/em><em>At one stage, she briefly lived again with her mother, but was then for several years passed through various foster homes experiencing abuse and harassment. She returned to a children\u0092s hospital where it was found that she had regressed back to silence.\u00a0<\/em><em>Funding for Genie\u0092s treatment and research was stopped in 1974 and it wasn\u0092t known what happened to her, until a private investigator located her in a private facility for mentally underdeveloped adults.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted from http:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/feral-children-wild-animals-photos-julia-fullerton-batten for reference and research. Genie, USA, 1970 When she was a toddler Genie\u0092s father decided she was \u0093retarded\u0094 and restrained her in a child\u0092s toilet seat in a small room of the house. She lived in solitary confinement for more than 10 years. She even slept in the chair. She was 13 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[85,456,503,1171],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-feral-children","tag-85","tag-feral-children","tag-genie","tag-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/lore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/lore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/lore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/lore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/lore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/lore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/lore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/lore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/lore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}