Genie Wiley: America's Ferie Child

Feral Child

The name “Genie” was given to her as a means of protecting her identity. Her case made news as one of the nation’s most horrific instances of child abuse. One question swept the nation: what kind of unmentionable conditions could have transformed this harmless young girl into what the officers called a “feral child?” But the answer laid at the bottom of a grave in Arcadia, California…

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