11? yr old girl found who may have been raised by monkeys

[kenny]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ot-there-is-a-mystery/?utm_term=.3b4f011203e6

Partial snip

Amid a troop of monkeys in the Katraniaghat forest range in northern India roamed a naked human girl, playing with the primates as if she were one of them. She looked emaciated, her hair disheveled. But she appeared to be in a comfortable state, until the police arrived.

A group of woodcutters had alerted authorities after spotting the girl, believed to be 10 to 12 years old. When police approached her, the monkeys surrounded the girl, protecting her as one of their own, and attacking an officer as the girl screeched at him, the New Indian Express reported this week. After rescuing the girl, the officer sped away in his patrol car, the monkeys chasing him.

 

[monarch64]

Wow, fascinating.

 

[AGBF]

This story reminded me of another story, a true one, made into a movie called "The Wild Child" by French director Francois Truffaut in 1970. Below is a review of the movie (which is superb) by Roger Ebert. This was the story of a young boy, who is named "Victor" by the people who find him, found to have been raised by wolves in eighteenth century France. If I remember correctly, Victor never learned to speak because he was found by humans after the age at which humans have ceased to be able to acquire language, but I may not recall correctly. Here is an excerpt from Ebert's review.

"Francois Truffaut's "The Wild Child" is the story of a "wolf boy" who lived like an animal in the woods, and about the doctor who adopted him and tried to civilize him. The story is essentially true, drawn from an actual case in 18th Century France, and Truffaut tells it simply and movingly. It becomes his most thoughtful statement on his favorite subject: The way young people grow up, explore themselves, and attempt to function creatively in the world."

Ebert's Review...http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-wild-child-1970

AGBF

 

[AGBF]

The story may not have been true. The girl may have been abandoned by her family. Here is a link to a story in "The Washington Post".

Link...https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...s-new-reports-suggest/?utm_term=.e4e42dfd495a

AGBF

 

[kenny]

I'm not sure which story is more tragic.