Few have captured public and scientific attention like that of a young girl called Genie Wiley. She spent almost her entire childhood locked in a bedroom, isolated and abused for over a decade. Genie's case was one of the first to put the critical period theory to the test.
Genie (born 1957) is the pseudonym of an American feral child who was a victim of severe abuse, neglect, and social isolation. Her circumstances are prominently recorded in the annals of linguistics and abnormal child psychology. When she was approximately 20 months old, her father began keeping her in a locked room.
By the late 1970s, Genie had vanished back into obscurity. As she was a ward of California, authorities housed her in state-run institutions, her location secret. Four decades later, she apparently remains in state care.
Blanche Monnier (French pronunciation: [blɑ̃ʃ mɔnje]; 1 March 1849 – 13 October 1913), often known in France as la Séquestrée de Poitiers (roughly, "The Confined Woman of Poitiers"), was a woman from Poitiers, France, who was secretly kept locked in a small room by her aristocratic mother and brother for 25 years.
Genie was 13 when, on November 4th, 1970, her condition was discovered when her mother brought her daughter to a welfare office for help in Los Angeles. Genie could not speak, had the language and physical skills of a baby, and crawled on the floor like a baby.
Within the first seven months after her discovery, Genie learned many new words. She had even begun to speak but only in single words. By July 1971, Genie could put two words together and by November she could put together three.
Both parents were charged with abuse, but Genie's father died by suicide the day before he was due to appear in court, leaving behind a note stating that "the world will never understand." The story of Genie's case soon spread, drawing attention from both the public and the scientific community.
In August 1984, over seven years after she'd been kidnapped while hitchhiking, Stan went to a bus station and had her family wire her money for a ticket home. She then called Cameron and told him she was leaving and there was nothing he could do about it, according to court documents.
Girl In The Box Is Based On True Story
Colleen Stan, then 20 years old, was kidnapped by Cameron Hooker in 1977, and he imprisoned her in his house in Northern California for seven years. The majority of the time, he kept Stan in a wooden box that was tucked under the bed that he and his wife Janice Hooker shared.
Alicia "Kozak" Kozakiewicz was abducted by a sexual predator that she met online as a 13-year-old in 2002 and was held captive in a dungeon for four days before she was rescued. Alicia "Kozak" Kozakiewicz remembers thinking she wasn't leaving her captor's dungeon alive after four days of rape and abuse.
Victor of Aveyron (French: Victor de l'Aveyron; c. 1788 – 1828) was a French feral child who was found at the age of around 9. Not only is he considered the most famous feral child, but his case is also the most documented case of a feral child.
During her six and a half years of isolation, she lived with her deaf and mute mother. She had no concept of relationships, no verbal skills, and was malnourished.
Due to the lack of human connection, most feral children suffer mental impairments, diminished language ability, a lack of social skills, and physical problems. During our formative years, we learn how to behave in accordance with our culture through a process called enculturation.
As Genie's stress began to grew over his desire to impress The Sultan at the royal delegations, he became beside himself with distress and exploded into different aspects of his own personality.
Straitjacketed for 13 years, adult "Genie" still lives a shuttered life. May 7, 2008 — -- They called her "Genie" -- a pseudonym to protect her privacy -- because since infancy her life had been bottled up in the horrors she experienced in one dimly lit room.
Eden (voiced by Valery Pappas) is a genie who is the Genie's girlfriend. She is first introduced in the episode "Some Enchanted Genie" and only appears in one other episode; "The Book of Khartoum".
Stan was starved, whipped, and burned by Hooker, a 23-year-old lumber mill worker. He would tie her to the ceiling by her wrists or leave her for days with a 20-pound hinged wooden box around her head, blocking the outside world.
A 20-year-old woman was kept as a sex slave in a coffin-like crate under a bed for seven years by a twisted kidnapper. The horror ordeal of Colleen Stan's years in captivity has now been adapted into a terrifying true crime drama that is due to air in the UK this month.
Colleen Stan became known as the "girl in the box" after she was held prisoner by Cameron and Janice Hooker inside their California home between 1977 and 1984. YouTube Colleen Stan, “the girl in the box,” before her abduction in 1977.
Colleen J. Stan (born December 31, 1956) is an American woman who was kidnapped and held as a sex slave by Cameron and Janice Hooker in their Red Bluff, California home for over seven years, between 1977 and 1984. At Cameron Hooker's trial, Stan's experience was described as unparalleled in FBI history.
She is now a proud mother and grandmother and went on to receive her accounting degree following her escape on August 10, 1984. Every year, she and her family celebrate the anniversary of her escape from the Hookers at the beach. In addition, she also counsels other women who have survived various forms of abuse.
[Watch Colleen Stan: The Girl in the Box on A&E Crime Central.] For seven years, Stan was held captive. She was locked in a small coffin-like wooden box the Hookers kept under their bed; occasionally, she would be let out—but only to be raped, whipped or forced to do household chores.
This week Miss Boever delivered a very provocative talk about what has become known as the “Forbidden Experiment.” This is an experiment which involves taking a newborn baby from birth and locking it in a room, denying the child any form of human communication or interaction.
She was 54.5 inches tall and weighed 62.25 pounds. She was unable to stand erect, could not chew solid or even semi-solid foods, had great difficulty in swallowing, was incontinent of feces and urine, and was mute. older brother never spoke to Genie although they barked at her like dogs.