Marks Unexplained World Podcast - Episode 125: Genie Wiley (The Feral Child)

Contains distressing detail, listener Discretion is Advised

Genie Wiley 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.

During this period, he almost always strapped her to a child's toilet or bound her in a crib with her arms and legs immobilized, forbade anyone to interact with her, provided her with almost no stimulation of any kind, and left her severely malnourished.

Her abuse came to the attention of Los Angeles County child welfare authorities in November 1970, when she was 13 years and 7 months old, after which she became a ward of the state of California.

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