Genie Wiley: America's Ferie Child

Kept in Darkness

Genie’s room was kept dark, and her mother and brother were not permitted to interact with her or each other. Both the windows were blacked out. During this time, Wiley would sit in the living room, crazed, with a shotgun in his lap…

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