Russian police find feral girl in Siberia

[Nagishkaw 510]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian police have taken into care a 5-year-old girl who has been shut up in a flat in the company of cats and dogs for her entire life, police said on Wednesday.

The girl, who lived in the Eastern Siberian city of Chita, could not speak Russian and acted like an dog when police took her into care.

"For five years, the girl was 'brought up' by several dogs and cats and had never been outside," a police statement said.

"The unwashed girl was dressed in filthy clothes, had the clear attributes of an animal and jumped at people," it said.

The flat had no heat, water or sewage system.

A police spokeswoman said the girl, known as Natasha, is being monitored by psychologists in an orphanage. Her mother was being questioned but her father has not been found yet.

She appears to be about 2-years-old, though her real age is five, refuses to eat with a spoon and has taken on many of the gestures of the animals with which she lived, police said.

"When carers leave the room, the girl jumps at the door and barks," the police said.

Feral children, the stuff of folklore all over the world, usually exhibit the behavior of the animals with whom they have had closest contact, a condition known as the Mowgli Syndrome after the fictional child from Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" who was raised by wolves in the jungle.

Such children have usually built strong ties with the animals with whom they lived and find the transition to normal human contact extremely traumatic.

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[almaty 19]

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[Ban Hammer 13,634]

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[Nagishkaw 510]

Meow.

[FaithfulandTrue 6]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian police have taken into care a 5-year-old girl who has been shut up in a flat in the company of cats and dogs for her entire life, police said on Wednesday.

The girl, who lived in the Eastern Siberian city of Chita, could not speak Russian and acted like an dog when police took her into care.

"For five years, the girl was 'brought up' by several dogs and cats and had never been outside," a police statement said.

"The unwashed girl was dressed in filthy clothes, had the clear attributes of an animal and jumped at people," it said.

The flat had no heat, water or sewage system.

A police spokeswoman said the girl, known as Natasha, is being monitored by psychologists in an orphanage. Her mother was being questioned but her father has not been found yet.

She appears to be about 2-years-old, though her real age is five, refuses to eat with a spoon and has taken on many of the gestures of the animals with which she lived, police said.

"When carers leave the room, the girl jumps at the door and barks," the police said.

Feral children, the stuff of folklore all over the world, usually exhibit the behavior of the animals with whom they have had closest contact, a condition known as the Mowgli Syndrome after the fictional child from Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" who was raised by wolves in the jungle.

Such children have usually built strong ties with the animals with whom they lived and find the transition to normal human contact extremely traumatic.

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I'll pray for you Natasha(born on Christmas Day)

[Niels Bohr 72]

This is off-topic but gives a glimpse to the dawn of man following other animals way of eating food. In this case, the Natasha imitated the dogs and do what they do just like the early man.

Well enough of the perspective, it's disgusting to see parents treat their children like that.

[Nagishkaw 510]

How do we know that early man ate like canines ?

[Niels Bohr 72]

How do we know that early man ate like canines ?

Ask the archeologist and anthropologists.

Well, we know their diet indirectly be referring to their teeth. And what's around the hearth where they cook food.

[Bobby+Umit 161]

"Feral Girl" wearing clothes?

Don't see many wild animals wearing clothes...

[spookyturtle 9,466]

I adopted a feral cat.

[alienlovechild 75]

"For five years, the girl was 'brought up' by several dogs and cats and had never been outside," a police statement said.

I highly doubt that as there's never been a documented case of feral child raised solely by animals.

The flat had no heat, water or sewage system

No food or water and living in Siberia- no way. Did the dogs and cats order take out food?

[msu17 0]

Haha, our neighbors adopted a little girl from the same town. I wonder if this little girl is at the same orphanage?

[mawilson 2,133]

Mags' long-lost daughter?

[panamania79 2]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian police have taken into care a 5-year-old girl who has been shut up in a flat in the company of cats and dogs for her entire life, police said on Wednesday.

The girl, who lived in the Eastern Siberian city of Chita, could not speak Russian and acted like an dog when police took her into care.

"For five years, the girl was 'brought up' by several dogs and cats and had never been outside," a police statement said.

"The unwashed girl was dressed in filthy clothes, had the clear attributes of an animal and jumped at people," it said.

The flat had no heat, water or sewage system.

A police spokeswoman said the girl, known as Natasha, is being monitored by psychologists in an orphanage. Her mother was being questioned but her father has not been found yet.

She appears to be about 2-years-old, though her real age is five, refuses to eat with a spoon and has taken on many of the gestures of the animals with which she lived, police said.

"When carers leave the room, the girl jumps at the door and barks," the police said.

Feral children, the stuff of folklore all over the world, usually exhibit the behavior of the animals with whom they have had closest contact, a condition known as the Mowgli Syndrome after the fictional child from Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" who was raised by wolves in the jungle.

Such children have usually built strong ties with the animals with whom they lived and find the transition to normal human contact extremely traumatic.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090528/od_nm/...3NpYW5wb2xpYw--

"For five years, the girl was 'brought up' by several dogs and cats and had never been outside," a police statement said.

I highly doubt that as there's never been a documented case of feral child raised solely by animals.

The flat had no heat, water or sewage system

No food or water and living in Siberia- no way. Did the dogs and cats order take out food?

I am visualizing dogs and cats calling Dominoe's .

[Niels Bohr 72]

I was hoping Mags would check out my cat thread. She didn't respond! >D