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Following the 2008 disclosure by Belgian newspaper Le Soir [83] that the bestselling book Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years and movie Survivre avec les loups (' Surviving with Wolves ') was a media hoax, the French media debated the credulity with which numerous cases of feral children have been unquestioningly accepted. Although there ...
Several books about feral or abused children contain chapters on Genie, and many on linguistics and psychology also discuss her case at length. [ 294 ] [ 299 ] [ 300 ] In 1994, Nova released a documentary about her based on Rymer's book, titled Secret of the Wild Child , which won multiple Emmy Awards.
Victor of Aveyron (French: Victor de l'Aveyron; c. 1788 – 1828) was a French feral child who was found around the age of 9. Not only is he considered one of the most famous feral children, but his case is also the most documented case of a feral child. [1]
According to the French surgeon Serge Aroles, the case of Amala and Kamala is the most scandalous swindle concerning feral children. In his book L'Enigme des enfants-loup (Enigma of the Wolf-Children, 2007), Aroles describes his research of the case. He scrutinised archives and formerly unknown sources and concludes:
A teenager who killed four students at his Michigan high school in 2021 was like a “feral child,” deeply neglected by his parents during crucial years and mentally ill, a psychologist ...
Anna's case is commonly compared to the study of another feral child named Isabelle because of their similar upbringings. They were both raised in isolation for a similar amount of time, but Isabelle was able to recover much faster and achieve greater mental development. [ 4 ]
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According to doctors and medical records, she was a normal child at birth, [3] but was later neglected by her alcoholic father at age three, and she lived surrounded by dogs. [2] [4] When Malaya was found by authorities, she was seven and a half years old, but she could not talk, lacked many basic skills, and physically behaved like a dog.