Another one of those stories where I try really hard to udnerstand what would make a person/family resort to treating another person like this... I admit to a fascination with feral children. This is one is sadder to me because, unlike other cases where kids were forced to live in the wild or out with other animals, this girl was in a home and still treated like an animal.
Original story is
here.
'Feral' child barks and hisses after being raised as a pet
A "feral" five-year-old girl who hisses and barks after being forced by her family to live as one of their many pets has been rescued from a home in far eastern Russia.
According to police, the child, who has only been identified as "Natasha", was so neglected that she had barely developed a human vocabulary, communicating instead through animal noises.
Although she lived with her father, grandparents and other relatives, Natasha was essentially treated like one of a large number of dogs and cats that shared a small flat in the isolated city of Chita.
Like the other pets, she lapped at her food from a bowl on the floor and had never learned how to use cutlery.
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Posted May 29th, 2009, 07:39 PM
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