Child Locked In Attic For 13 Years

It wasn t until genie was 13 years old that her abuse was discovered.

Child locked in attic for 13 years. Blanche was 25 years old and was desperate to find a suitor before her flames of youth became extinguished. An oshkosh couple have been charged with keeping a 13 year old girl locked in a sparsely furnished bedroom in the attic of this home for about 20 hours a day for about two years. When a social worker met with the family genie s appearance and condition gave away the sinister secrets. Her disapproving mother angered by her daughter s defiance locked her in a tiny dark room in the attic of their home where she kept her secluded for 25 years.

On november 4 1970 her mother who was nearly blind sought public assistance in temple city california after leaving her husband. The social worker soon discovered that the girl had been confined to a small room and an investigation by authorities quickly revealed that the child had spent most of her life in this room often tied to a potty chair. If she made any. Just like any other girl she was searching for her prince charming.

Even in a storybook i don t think cinderella was even treated like this. Story of child kept in a cage told by now grown. Because of her father s sensitivity to noice and lack of care for others genie spent the first 13 years of her life strapped to a potty or a chair in a homemade straightjacket. 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.

A social worker discovered the 13 year old girl after her mother sought out services for her own health. The french socialite locked in her attic for 25 years blanche. Is this something like a cinderella syndrome. This girl was locked alone in a room for 12 years before she was.

A third a boy named john survived followed five years later by the girl who would become known as genie. Louise monnier and her brother marcel continued on with their daily lives pretending to mourn blanche s death.