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- The Horrifying Upbringing That Turned Genie Wiley Into A “Feral Child”
- Genie Wiley’s Salvation from Torment
- Researchers Begin Experimenting on The “Feral Child”
- Continued Exploitation of Genie Wiley
- Genie Wiley Today
Genie isn’t the Feral Child’s real name. She was given the name to protect her identity once she became a spectacle of scientific research and awe. Susan Wiley was born in 1957 to Clark Wiley and his much-younger wife Irene Oglesby. Oglesby was a Dust Bowl refugee who had drifted to the Los Angeles area where she met her husband. He was a former as...
Genie Wiley’s mother was nearly blind which she later said kept her from interceding on her daughter’s behalf. But one day, 14 years after Genie Wiley’s first introduction to her father’s cruelty, her mother did finally muster her courage and leave. In 1970, she stumbled into social services, mistaking it for the office where they’d give aid to the...
Genie Wiley’s discovery timed precisely with an uptick in the scientific study of language. To language scientists, Wiley was a blank slate, a way to understand what part language has in our development and vice versa. In a twist of dramatic irony, Genie Wiley now became deeply wanted. One of the foremost tasks of the “Genie Team” was to establish ...
For all their contributions to understanding human nature, the “Genie Team” was not without its critics. For one thing, each of the scientists on the team accused each other of abusing their position and relationships with Genie Wiley the feral child. For instance, in 1971, language teacher Jean Butler obtained permission to bring Wiley home with h...
Genie Wiley’s present life is little-known; once her mother took custody, she refused to let her daughter be the subject of any more studies. Like so many people with special needs, she fell through the cracks of proper care. Wiley’s mother died in 2003, her brother John in 2011, and her niece Pamela in 2012. Russ Rymer, a journalist, tried to piec...
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Being the victim of severe child abuse and a research subject in language acquisition. 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.
- 1957 (age 65–66), Arcadia, California, U.S.
Mar 18, 2024 · While there have been a number of cases of feral children raised in social isolation with little or no human contact, few have captured public and scientific attention, like that of Genie Wiley. Genie spent almost her entire childhood locked in a bedroom, isolated, and abused for over a decade.
NOVA follows the contentious attempts to unbolt the secret of the wild child who has reached near maturity in an agonizing seclusion with almost no human contact. The story begins in Los Angeles on November 4, 1970, when authorities have taken under protection a thirteen-year-old girl that was kept in such solitude imposed by her parents that ...
