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  2. Genie (feral child) - Wikipedia

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    Genie was the last, and also second surviving, of four children born to parents living in Arcadia, California.Her father worked in a factory as a flight mechanic during World War II and continued in aviation afterward, and her mother, who was around 20 years younger and from an Oklahoma farming family, had come to Southern California as a teenager with family friends who were fleeing the Dust ...

  3. Mockingbird Don't Sing - Wikipedia

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    Mockingbird Don't Sing is a 2001 American independent film based on the true story of Genie, a modern-day feral child. [1] The film is told from the point of view of Susan Curtiss (whose fictitious name is Sandra Tannen), a professor of linguistics at University of California, Los Angeles. Although the film is based on a true story, all of the ...

  4. Portal:Greater Los Angeles/Selected biography/4 - Wikipedia

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    The Salk Institute, where researchers analyzed the data from the first of several brain exams on Genie. Genie (born 1957) is the pseudonym of a feral child who was the victim of extraordinarily severe abuse, neglect and social isolation. Her circumstances are recorded prominently in the annals of abnormal child psychology.

  5. Anna (feral child) - Wikipedia

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    Her abuse came to the attention of Los Angeles child welfare authorities on November 4, 1970. [10] Following her discovery, Genie was followed by scientists, physiologists, and linguists. She has lived much longer than Anna and is believed to be 60 or 61 years old (as of 2017), but she has yet to acquire a functional first language.

  6. Former Playboy playmate jumps to her death with 7-year-old son

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    A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...

  7. List of long-term false imprisonment cases - Wikipedia

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    Elisabeth Fritzl and her children, Austria, 24 years, [9] discovered on 26 April 2008. Elizabeth Wesson, her sisters, her children, her nieces and her nephews, Fresno, California, US, 26 years, discovered on 12 March 2004. "Genie", Arcadia, California, United States, 13 years, [10] discovered on 4 November 1970.

  8. Talk:Genie (feral child)/Archive 1 - Wikipedia

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    However, Russ Rymer's book, Genie, An Abused Child's Flight From Silence states and I quote: "Clark's idea of protective custody is described in Susan Curtiss's doctoral dissertation, which was published as a book -- Genie: A Psycholinguistic Study of a Modern-Day 'Wild Child'-- in 1977 by Academic Press.

  9. Oxford school shooter was 'feral child' abandoned by parents ...

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    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 ...