Wild Child: The Story of Feral Children
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Channel: Christian G
Views: 2,655,100
Rating: 4.6342821 out of 5
Keywords: Feral, Children, nature, nurture, oxana, malaya, abuse, abandonment, dogs, neglect, Animal, Animals, Dog, Child (Literature Subject), Cats, Rescue
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Length: 43min 22sec (2602 seconds)
Published: Fri Jul 04 2014
Please note that this website is currently a work in progress! Lots of interesting data and statistics to come.
A more recent case is Danielle Crockett, "The Girl In The Window", who was found and rescued when she was 7 years old. She's 19 now, does not speak, and still struggles. It's not a documentary, but the article is incredibly well-written and worth the read if you're at all interested in the 'feral child' phenomenon:
"In the back of a run-down house in Plant City, officers found a skeletal child, curled on a moldy mattress, covered with maggots and flies. She had nothing on but a swollen diaper. Feces dribbled down her legs.
“What’s your name, honey?” asked Detective Mark Holste, bending over the girl. She didn’t react.
Roaches crunched under his feet. Lice crawled in her black hair.
It was the worst case of neglect Holste had ever seen.
He carried her out and had her rushed to the hospital.
Detectives determined that Danielle Crockett was almost 7. For years, she had been kept behind a closed door, in a space the size of a walk-in closet, alone in the dark.
The state’s Child Protection Team diagnosed Dani with “psychological deprivation, failure to thrive, medical and physical neglect and developmental delays.”
Police arrested her birth mother, Michelle Crockett. She told them she was a single mom, doing the best she could."
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http://www.tampabay.com/projects/girl-in-the-window/danielle/
3 years later: http://www.tampabay.com/projects/girl-in-the-window/three-years-later/
10 years later, in November 2017: http://www.tampabay.com/projects/girl-in-the-window/neglect-feral-child-ten-years-later/
There's a book called The Boy Who was Raised as a Dog which is 10 or 12 different stories about kids who were raised in horrible conditions. It's a good read.
If you wanna read up on an extreme case, search Genie Wiley.
Just a heads up, it's extremely heart breaking
Edit: I didn't watch the video last night as I was just about to go to bed. Apparently, Genie is featured in it
I love that 19 kids and counting is on the screen.
I know feral kids who have parents.
Are they proposing a village raises the children?
IMO this shows that in the debate of nature vs. nurture, nurture is far more imperative especially early in life. I feel like nature comes into play later in life when personality traits are detectable
So they mention a neglected child's brain is physically and mentally underdeveloped when there is a lack of stimulation. My question is, if the brain from infancy was over stimulated, could we possibly see the frontal cortex grow? This is the basic premise of learning already to an extent but I'm wondering about a study demonstrating borderline abuse. Of course it would be unethical but I'm genuinely curious if it would be more of an overload than a successful study.
This stuff always depresses me fam 😪
Edit: Now I'm too deep into YouTube and watching psychopath children documentaries. Halp