@jkw8383 google her. Her sister was abused to death and the brother also severly abused. Then learn the basics of brain development. It would not make sense if an infant became socialized and learned language by him/herself, would it? newborns lie there, totally depending on parents
@jkw8383 frontallobe develops after birth - during the first year AFTER birth. Just an example. They didnt know enough when they made the documentary but it is irritating that they must have known about the siblings..
People have been asking what happened to Genie. She is 54 or so and living in a psychiatric ward in America. Also for those thinking "retarded" is a bad word in this case it is not, mental retardation is a legitimate mental disability.
Genie reminds me of the character Chief from the movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," whenever she's silent. I think she just needed to trust in people again. After gaining trust in them, she just wanted to talk. She had her way of communicating, even though we might not understand her, it was her way of expressing herself.
I'm so angry at her parents. She is an intelligent young lady and she had much potential but her parents took a lot away from her when they locked her up. What did she do to deserve this? Nothing!
I know it sounds bad, but im soooooo ANGRY at her parents i want them to face consequences for what they did to this poor child!!! We cant even imagine the life she must have lived.... no love... Affection... God, how horrible to do this to a person
I don't think that EVERYBODY means mere physical beauty when talking about her being beautiful, let alone sexual attraction. (There might be a few, though...) I think what many have in mind is that she looks pure and innocent, she seems to be so open to the people around her. The scene when she is at the seaside for the first time is so touching. Hopefully people would feel the same about her if she was ugly. I hope she has found something like happiness wherever she is now.
@magicrystalina I think a lot of people are not surprised, but more so merely captivated in her appearance, a young girl who appears so pure and innocent seeing the world for the first time. It is a shame such a bad thing happened to her though, and it makes you wonder how many other kids like that are being kept in isolation. Awful.
mentally retarded is just having brain problems. It's not like they're straight up calling her retarded as a mean insulting way, they're just saying she might have had brain problems. And if they're right or wrong I don't know, but don't get all mad that they said a bad word.
Why? It's a clinical word... So is spastic, it's people who make those words into insults that have the problem, not the people that use the words as scientific terms.
@rosydonut thats not true at all..... Retarded has a negative connotation whether your using it as an insult or not. You would never walk up to a mentally disabled person and call them a retard, because it would be considered rude.
Yeah I know, because people made it an insult. When this documentary was made it was not considered an insult, it was a clinical word, used in medicine to describe a person with brain retardation.
@ThePsychotropicFox No, but i would walk up to you and call you a brain dead retard....please don't use words beyond your vocabulary, i mean, it just makes you sound stupid when you use them incorrectly.
@leboharold From what I remember she has been permanently 'fostered' and her location is unknown due to her need to create a strong attachment and keep it. I think she had a name change as well to keep her even safer
As far as I know, Irene Wiley only regained custody of Genie in 1978, when much of the damage had already been done. Let's face it, the Riglers dumped her off after the research project collapsed. :(
As John Miner, Genie's legal guardian, once put it in court: "I couldn't understand how people not related to this child [the Riglers] could undergo what she was subjecting them to in terms of the strain on the household".
One doesn't know, of course one has only a vague idea of how difficult a girl Genie must have been.
Still, that's the line where one expects true parental love to come and save the day. The Riglers may have given Genie care and attention, but love...no.
@misspinkpunkykat Because Irene Wiley was acquitted of child abuse charges and regained custody of Genie. Since she was the legal guardian, the Genie team didn't have a choice.
shes so beautiful, you can see how much she had to over come with her horrible past. How ever people can treat anything so cruely is beyond me. And your own flesh and blood? It makes you think that you've really must appericate life and that we have the ability to walk , talk, sing, dance.... Oh, this whole story, that poor, brave girl!
I feel sooo sorry for her, she is swapping foster home all the time and people are just using her!! Even after she was rescued she had an horrible time!!!!
@MeesterCrumpet A 15 year old can't be pretty? I don't think they're saying it in a sexual way, she's beautiful because of the hardships she's overcome.
works with stuttering people. babies learn to control their voice by crying and making noise. so if she'd been hit when she did that she probably can't use her voice properly to begin with.
Why does everyone focus on her being pretty? Why is that a factor in how terrible her childhood was? Why would it have been any less horrible if she was ugly?
@masteryeslek I have no idea some people are really twisted and weird and find some type of sexual attraction to this girl or something...I even read "Id hit that" in the comments on part 4. Some people are just sick in the head.
like you said what the hell does her being pretty have to do with anything.
It's sad what has happened to this girl and I'd feel bad for her whether she looked like Precious or Kim Kardashian.
@masteryeslek that's exactly what i'm thinking all the time. isn't it SICK to point out her physical aspect, hence, her sexual attraction? people is just sick.
anyway, it's long time known that people empathizes better and likes better pretty people. i can't even start to imagine the type of comments that would be running here if she was ugly.
I don't have a problem with them recounting her childhood, the word retarded, or "wild child," or even the doctors trying to adopt her (save for Butler). I have a problem with the NIMH cutting funding for this project. Is not the goal of NIMH to advance humanity through mental health? Apparently, only if it's lucrative. Shame on you NIMH and the federal government, shame on you!
anyone can learn a language after the Critical Age Period.. it's just how fluent you are or how unaccented your speech is. For example, people learn French in high school, and many businessmen are learning Mandarin Chinese. They can learn the language, but an accent is often always inevitable.
@xoxobliss its not learning a language, its learning full communication and word association. You can learn French in high school because you understand the concept of the words themselves. for example, hearing a child say a swear word. That child doesn't understand what they are saying. but they associate our reaction to that word. but i agree that you can learn language after the CAP, but it take such immense work to get it. and it will not be anywhere as comprehensive
shes not wild, nor retarded. she just simply didnt learn the bases of language. this film always calls her retarded. its kinda un true. shes very intelligent. if you look at people who lived in caves millions of years ago, they didnt speak they just made noises and without them where would we be today?
@iheartunibrows They call her retarded, because when she was younger, she had minimal brain stimulation. Therefore, she wasn't able to strengthen some connections in her head and lost them as a result. Her childhood damaged her brain development.
Being "mentally retarded" is much more involved than language development. They focused on that to discover how humans learn language. Genie was intellectually stunted thanks to the lack of stimulation she recieved as an infant. Humans are social creatures, who learn and thrive on human contact. If you notice, Genie cannot do things a normal teen can do. These are called "adaptive skills". These and a person's IQ are what determine mental retardation.
F*CK YOU, YOU STUPID FOSTER PARENTS PIECES OF SHIT. HOW DARE YOU MAKE HER LIVE THROUGH THAT AGAIN SHE'S NOT EVEN FIGURED OUT ALL THE LANGUAGE SHE CAN LEARN, YOU THINK SHE'S MENTALLY PREPARED FOR THAT AGAIN?!?!
@fizzletto3 Victor has, of course, passed away but according to a few comments before and a wikipedia article Genie is still alive at age 53 (i think) living in an undisclosed location Southern California.
In any case, wherever she's living i hope she's happy as she seemed to be with the woman shown in multiple interviews even if their scientific intent may have been a little unsettling at times.
I find it horrible that they make her remember her childhood. I think she has thoughts about it, and who want to remember such a poor childhood? It's stupid I think >< It was horrble for me to see this conversation about her father ..
I find it horrible that they make her remember her childhood. I think she has thoughts about it, and who want to remember such a poor childhood? It's stupid I think . It was scary for me to see this conversation about her father ><
@1PieceFMA Ha! You rock. Some doofus commented about her looks on one of the other vids too, as though it's more tragic given the way she looks. Welcome to YouTube huh? Where only one in every 100 comments has some evidence of thought behind it.
@Fevrure It's her reality, it's her past. She can't avoid it, it's not cruel. They are trying to let her know what her past was and differenciate the wrong and the right. It's better than lying to her.
@RetartedWaffles I just don't like how they used her like a guini pig.. they put her back to the adoption center which made me angry and sad that they left her just like that after all they did with her..and she suffered more abuse!
@Fevrure I agree, they should have built up her coping resources first. I don't see the point in re-traumatising her. It's such a shame she regressed later; she was doing so well. But it's not wonder with everything she had to go through. It's not "only" the abuse and neglect she had to go through - she was let down later by so many other people, and that's the real tragedy.
I don't think it's cruel. They were trying to help her get it out of her head and help her to heal. For me, and I think most of us, it would be incredibly difficult to have some tragic event happen to us and not be able to get it out of us, not be able to talk about it. I think that's what they were trying to do.
@Rachierach4593 I understand that, and yes it therapeotic, but still those scientist treat her as a guini pig rather than human..like those two that had her for "foster" care and once their testing time was up they quickly got rid of her and she ended in an orphanage where she was abused...just saying they really had no heart for her to begin with...
When she vocalized her childhood experiences, that was very powerful. It's not a simple thing to understand. But she seems to be expressing a very primitive form of distress.
I will never understand what can make a person treat another person as Genie was treated.
According to Wikipedia, Genie (born in 1957) will be 53 years old on 18th April this year. She lives in sheltered accommodation in an undisclosed location in Southern California
I think she was autistic to begin with
jkw8383 2 weeks ago
@jkw8383 based on?
belugavision 8 hours ago
@jkw8383 google her. Her sister was abused to death and the brother also severly abused. Then learn the basics of brain development. It would not make sense if an infant became socialized and learned language by him/herself, would it? newborns lie there, totally depending on parents
belugavision 8 hours ago
@jkw8383 frontallobe develops after birth - during the first year AFTER birth. Just an example. They didnt know enough when they made the documentary but it is irritating that they must have known about the siblings..
belugavision 8 hours ago
@berdisthewerd the word "retarded" is suitable in American society but not in Irish society
JadeBeasley 1 month ago
@JadeBeasley Not anymore, the documentary was made when the use of the word retarded was acceptable. please don't think we use the word retard today
jfrielx3 1 week ago
People have been asking what happened to Genie. She is 54 or so and living in a psychiatric ward in America. Also for those thinking "retarded" is a bad word in this case it is not, mental retardation is a legitimate mental disability.
berdisthewerd 1 month ago 4
@berdisthewerd can she talk normally? has she fully learned the english language?
fulltimeweirdos 4 weeks ago
the sad thing is the doctors gave up on her just as they gave up on victor centuries earlier...
sourkisses24 1 month ago 6
2 people abuse their children by keeping them locked in isolation.
RyderDavis 1 month ago
Hmm juicy fruit
badromenful 2 months ago
Genie reminds me of the character Chief from the movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," whenever she's silent. I think she just needed to trust in people again. After gaining trust in them, she just wanted to talk. She had her way of communicating, even though we might not understand her, it was her way of expressing herself.
Wushu17 3 months ago
I'm so angry at her parents. She is an intelligent young lady and she had much potential but her parents took a lot away from her when they locked her up. What did she do to deserve this? Nothing!
DragonLadyxox 3 months ago
I know it sounds bad, but im soooooo ANGRY at her parents i want them to face consequences for what they did to this poor child!!! We cant even imagine the life she must have lived.... no love... Affection... God, how horrible to do this to a person
RodTalon00 4 months ago
Afro Bus Driver FTW!
Ventus2225 4 months ago
@Ventus2225 Hahaha... I know, right? Guy needs his own funkadellic theme music he's so cool!
raggedyanarchist 2 weeks ago
I just want to hug her..I don't know why but I just do
GUIMOHEAD 4 months ago 6
@GUIMOHEAD Really, that what she needed. Not experimentation, not forcing her to relive trauma, just love and patience.
annagitana1 2 months ago 6
Poor Genie. I would have taken care of her.
rosydonut 5 months ago 3
"I like log!" She is adorable. x)
Stellana 5 months ago 5
At least her father was good in one thing....in ability to set gun against his head
KorsoTheCorsair 5 months ago in playlist Genie - Secret of the Wild Child
up to 0:40 is the fucking saddest part of this whole documentary. wow
RussianAssassin21 5 months ago 4
bad things always happen to the good
yummmize 5 months ago
I don't think that EVERYBODY means mere physical beauty when talking about her being beautiful, let alone sexual attraction. (There might be a few, though...) I think what many have in mind is that she looks pure and innocent, she seems to be so open to the people around her. The scene when she is at the seaside for the first time is so touching. Hopefully people would feel the same about her if she was ugly. I hope she has found something like happiness wherever she is now.
tatia641 5 months ago 7
this truly is a terrible life for anyone to live, but it just goes to show how miraculous the human brain is.
iamthetaisho 5 months ago
this truly is a terrible life for anyone to live, but it just goes to show how miraculous the human brain is.
iamthetaisho 5 months ago
I wonder whatever happened to Genie.
CrystalChord2010 6 months ago 2
why is it so surprising that she's pretty? just because a person is uncivilised, that does not make him/her ugly (appearance wise)
magicrystalina 6 months ago 28
@magicrystalina I think a lot of people are not surprised, but more so merely captivated in her appearance, a young girl who appears so pure and innocent seeing the world for the first time. It is a shame such a bad thing happened to her though, and it makes you wonder how many other kids like that are being kept in isolation. Awful.
LumynescenceK8 5 months ago
mentally retarded is just having brain problems. It's not like they're straight up calling her retarded as a mean insulting way, they're just saying she might have had brain problems. And if they're right or wrong I don't know, but don't get all mad that they said a bad word.
littlemisDana 6 months ago 5
I hate it when they keep calling her retarded
JamesP4003 6 months ago
@JamesP4003
Why? It's a clinical word... So is spastic, it's people who make those words into insults that have the problem, not the people that use the words as scientific terms.
rosydonut 5 months ago 3
@rosydonut yea i really dont give a shit i think its still mean.
JamesP4003 5 months ago
@rosydonut thats not true at all..... Retarded has a negative connotation whether your using it as an insult or not. You would never walk up to a mentally disabled person and call them a retard, because it would be considered rude.
Deathy666x 3 months ago
@Deathy666x
Yeah I know, because people made it an insult. When this documentary was made it was not considered an insult, it was a clinical word, used in medicine to describe a person with brain retardation.
rosydonut 3 months ago 2
@Deathy666x You wouldn't walk up to a blind person and call them "blindy" either, but that doesn't make it any less clinical.
ThePsychotropicFox 3 weeks ago
@ThePsychotropicFox No, but i would walk up to you and call you a brain dead retard....please don't use words beyond your vocabulary, i mean, it just makes you sound stupid when you use them incorrectly.
Deathy666x 3 weeks ago
:02 - :10 heartbreaking :(
myke7777 6 months ago
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TheWorldOfKids 6 months ago
i wonder how she wouldve behaved with people her own age
regengy 6 months ago
they should have tried sign language along with the verbal learning
czechsanchez01 7 months ago
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she likes log... okay.... im not even going to make any inappropriate associations regarding that
imgordonfreeman 7 months ago
@imgordonfreeman lol omg.
XTen1000DaysX 6 months ago
It's such a sad story, and terrible how the system failed her. And I hate this melodramatic music and presentation for cheap sensationalism.
the81kid 7 months ago 8
What ever became of her in later yrs?
leboharold 7 months ago
@leboharold From what I remember she has been permanently 'fostered' and her location is unknown due to her need to create a strong attachment and keep it. I think she had a name change as well to keep her even safer
OVERKILLxxPro 7 months ago
At the end, I guess the National Institute of Mental Heath needed some more money to do weird experiments on rats...
sneakyguest 8 months ago 3
As far as I know, Irene Wiley only regained custody of Genie in 1978, when much of the damage had already been done. Let's face it, the Riglers dumped her off after the research project collapsed. :(
mesfern 8 months ago
Why didn't the Riddler famly just adopt her as their daughter?
misspinkpunkykat 8 months ago 2
@misspinkpunkykat
As John Miner, Genie's legal guardian, once put it in court: "I couldn't understand how people not related to this child [the Riglers] could undergo what she was subjecting them to in terms of the strain on the household".
One doesn't know, of course one has only a vague idea of how difficult a girl Genie must have been.
Still, that's the line where one expects true parental love to come and save the day. The Riglers may have given Genie care and attention, but love...no.
mesfern 8 months ago
@misspinkpunkykat Because Irene Wiley was acquitted of child abuse charges and regained custody of Genie. Since she was the legal guardian, the Genie team didn't have a choice.
Enid1911 8 months ago
shes so beautiful, you can see how much she had to over come with her horrible past. How ever people can treat anything so cruely is beyond me. And your own flesh and blood? It makes you think that you've really must appericate life and that we have the ability to walk , talk, sing, dance.... Oh, this whole story, that poor, brave girl!
BeckiiHale 9 months ago 5
At 9:02 Genie really shows how much she was enjoying that particular test...
mesfern 9 months ago
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mesfern 9 months ago
I feel sooo sorry for her, she is swapping foster home all the time and people are just using her!! Even after she was rescued she had an horrible time!!!!
femm2695 10 months ago 2
its not a question of her being pretty. shes like 15 in these films.and severely developmentally disabled. perverts
MeesterCrumpet 10 months ago
@MeesterCrumpet A 15 year old can't be pretty? I don't think they're saying it in a sexual way, she's beautiful because of the hardships she's overcome.
ANeonTiger 9 months ago
i really feel sad for her
may god have mercy on her soul and aid her on her journey to life ):
T3rm3nator 10 months ago 6
@T3rm3nator Too bad god doesn't exist.
bmw123321 8 months ago
@bmw123321
so dont u
T3rm3nator 8 months ago
@T3rm3nator Well I'm replying to one of your comments, I haven't seen god replying on youtube. =D hahaha
bmw123321 8 months ago
@bmw123321
1st proove ur existince
T3rm3nator 8 months ago
From what I'm hearing, her voice is immensely attractive. She is beautiful!
mcmac101592 11 months ago
@mcmac101592 creepy,dude
MeesterCrumpet 10 months ago
8:05 ok?
Gingerorla 11 months ago
should have tried singing maybe?
works with stuttering people. babies learn to control their voice by crying and making noise. so if she'd been hit when she did that she probably can't use her voice properly to begin with.
lexichronicle2 11 months ago
Why does everyone focus on her being pretty? Why is that a factor in how terrible her childhood was? Why would it have been any less horrible if she was ugly?
masteryeslek 11 months ago 9
@masteryeslek I have no idea some people are really twisted and weird and find some type of sexual attraction to this girl or something...I even read "Id hit that" in the comments on part 4. Some people are just sick in the head.
like you said what the hell does her being pretty have to do with anything.
It's sad what has happened to this girl and I'd feel bad for her whether she looked like Precious or Kim Kardashian.
FreshSinceMyGenesis 11 months ago 8
@masteryeslek Your comment gives me a faint light of hope. Anyway, people are superficial morons who treat people better if they are 'attractive'.
ebolaoutkast 11 months ago
@masteryeslek that's exactly what i'm thinking all the time. isn't it SICK to point out her physical aspect, hence, her sexual attraction? people is just sick.
anyway, it's long time known that people empathizes better and likes better pretty people. i can't even start to imagine the type of comments that would be running here if she was ugly.
kiromasaje 9 months ago
I don't have a problem with them recounting her childhood, the word retarded, or "wild child," or even the doctors trying to adopt her (save for Butler). I have a problem with the NIMH cutting funding for this project. Is not the goal of NIMH to advance humanity through mental health? Apparently, only if it's lucrative. Shame on you NIMH and the federal government, shame on you!
ThorlikeSmash 11 months ago 3
anyone can learn a language after the Critical Age Period.. it's just how fluent you are or how unaccented your speech is. For example, people learn French in high school, and many businessmen are learning Mandarin Chinese. They can learn the language, but an accent is often always inevitable.
xoxobliss 11 months ago
@xoxobliss its not learning a language, its learning full communication and word association. You can learn French in high school because you understand the concept of the words themselves. for example, hearing a child say a swear word. That child doesn't understand what they are saying. but they associate our reaction to that word. but i agree that you can learn language after the CAP, but it take such immense work to get it. and it will not be anywhere as comprehensive
gioFunk 11 months ago
*snigger*...So, it woulda been okay if she were ugly? And people, some of the doctors and foster parents really just wanted to help her.
AmaindeJH 11 months ago
those foster parents are assholes
thepaperheartful 1 year ago 2
Just watching this, I wanted so badly for her to be able to communicate her feelings about her past and be able to get them out and heal.
Rachierach4593 1 year ago
why are you torturing her with her past.
TheVampireHeartDiary 1 year ago 8
These people are sick.
woahhnelliez 1 year ago
I hope she is doing well now. Love, Andrea
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joematters 1 year ago
She sounds so distressed when talking about her childhood, it makes me want to cry :(
DragonHeart06 1 year ago 8
@7:21- are those socker boppers?! :D
kristine5050 1 year ago
shes not wild, nor retarded. she just simply didnt learn the bases of language. this film always calls her retarded. its kinda un true. shes very intelligent. if you look at people who lived in caves millions of years ago, they didnt speak they just made noises and without them where would we be today?
iheartunibrows 1 year ago
@iheartunibrows They call her retarded, because when she was younger, she had minimal brain stimulation. Therefore, she wasn't able to strengthen some connections in her head and lost them as a result. Her childhood damaged her brain development.
Rhoderluxel 1 year ago
@iheartunibrows
Being "mentally retarded" is much more involved than language development. They focused on that to discover how humans learn language. Genie was intellectually stunted thanks to the lack of stimulation she recieved as an infant. Humans are social creatures, who learn and thrive on human contact. If you notice, Genie cannot do things a normal teen can do. These are called "adaptive skills". These and a person's IQ are what determine mental retardation.
monny287 1 year ago
@iheartunibrows it was made around the 70's or later
back than retarded had a different meaning and different affect than it does now.
ItaKatPureMoonlight 1 year ago
1:30 ALL KIDS LOVE LOG!
mahound9 1 year ago 4
Jeez this is heartbreaking.... so damn sad...
Tavera12 1 year ago
She is beautiful.
bojoben 1 year ago
F*CK YOU, YOU STUPID FOSTER PARENTS PIECES OF SHIT. HOW DARE YOU MAKE HER LIVE THROUGH THAT AGAIN SHE'S NOT EVEN FIGURED OUT ALL THE LANGUAGE SHE CAN LEARN, YOU THINK SHE'S MENTALLY PREPARED FOR THAT AGAIN?!?!
it felt good to get that out
planetlychee 1 year ago
@planetlychee I'm pretty sure they're dead by now so no point shouting.
fizzletto3 1 year ago
@fizzletto3 Victor has, of course, passed away but according to a few comments before and a wikipedia article Genie is still alive at age 53 (i think) living in an undisclosed location Southern California.
In any case, wherever she's living i hope she's happy as she seemed to be with the woman shown in multiple interviews even if their scientific intent may have been a little unsettling at times.
wintermoons1215 1 year ago
I think that they're asking her just to get the answers, rather than actually help ==
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I find it horrible that they make her remember her childhood. I think she has thoughts about it, and who want to remember such a poor childhood? It's stupid I think >< It was horrble for me to see this conversation about her father ..
schecky029 1 year ago
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I find it horrible that they make her remember her childhood. I think she has thoughts about it, and who want to remember such a poor childhood? It's stupid I think . It was scary for me to see this conversation about her father ><
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schecky029 1 year ago
so sad.
CloudWatcherX 1 year ago
her face is so innocent, so expressive whenever she is told 'your father's not living' and answers 'not living?'
poor kid :S
Wiggyify 1 year ago 13
Hey guys, did you know I like log?
SilverTemplar 1 year ago
Because she is pretty it is a shame?! How about because she is a human?!
dickknowpantyho 1 year ago 36
Sign language makes sense. If punished for making sounds she would have found a way to do it without sound.
icekat83 1 year ago
Oh god, the word "retarded" just sounds so fking wrong. Thank god they dont use that word anymore as a scientific term...it just cruel ;x
Sukhime 1 year ago
@Sukhime actually... they do. in my college biopsychology class, we use the term a lot. how on earth is "retarded" a cruel word?
gldnkltz101 1 year ago
I think the father deserved the needle and I dont mean a flu shot of course after he served 13 years alone on the potty chair
future622 1 year ago 7
@future622 I'm sure in the next life he got what he deserved. Pitchforks, brimestone etc. etc.
hollywoodwerewolf 1 year ago
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HAHAHA a potty chair!
iceshaver 1 year ago
Its so sad, and heartbreaking watching this. I hope wherever she is, she is happy and contented nowadays.
CelticMaiden1 1 year ago
Its so sad, and heartbreaking watching this. I hope wherever she is, she is happy and contented nowadays.
CelticMaiden1 1 year ago
she's pretty too, shame that such an evil thing happened to her
lxFullMetal 1 year ago 186
@lxFullMetal is it a shame because shes pretty. would it not be so if she was plain
jenzZ84 1 year ago
@jenzZ84
it would still be messed up but i don't know how someone could do that to a kid.
lxFullMetal 1 year ago
@lxFullMetal What difference does it make? If she were ugly, would her history of abuse be any less bad?
Chocolateluvr1987 1 year ago 14
@lxFullMetal So if she was ugly you would feel less bad about it?
1PieceFMA 1 year ago 34
@1PieceFMA Ha! You rock. Some doofus commented about her looks on one of the other vids too, as though it's more tragic given the way she looks. Welcome to YouTube huh? Where only one in every 100 comments has some evidence of thought behind it.
RockSchooled 1 year ago
@lxFullMetal she is pretty, but it wouldn't be less evil if she weren't
oxfordpictionary 7 months ago 64
she's 52 right now, i think. somewhere in her early 50's
tender89 1 year ago
how cruel! they make her remember her poor childhood :(
Fevrure 1 year ago 157
@Fevrure It's her reality, it's her past. She can't avoid it, it's not cruel. They are trying to let her know what her past was and differenciate the wrong and the right. It's better than lying to her.
RetartedWaffles 1 year ago
@RetartedWaffles I just don't like how they used her like a guini pig.. they put her back to the adoption center which made me angry and sad that they left her just like that after all they did with her..and she suffered more abuse!
Fevrure 1 year ago
@Fevrure no. the mother took her off them, and she put her into a mental institute :/
LucieMarieRudge 1 year ago 4
@Fevrure I agree, they should have built up her coping resources first. I don't see the point in re-traumatising her. It's such a shame she regressed later; she was doing so well. But it's not wonder with everything she had to go through. It's not "only" the abuse and neglect she had to go through - she was let down later by so many other people, and that's the real tragedy.
Chocolateluvr1987 1 year ago
@Fevrure
I don't think it's cruel. They were trying to help her get it out of her head and help her to heal. For me, and I think most of us, it would be incredibly difficult to have some tragic event happen to us and not be able to get it out of us, not be able to talk about it. I think that's what they were trying to do.
Rachierach4593 1 year ago 5
@Rachierach4593 I understand that, and yes it therapeotic, but still those scientist treat her as a guini pig rather than human..like those two that had her for "foster" care and once their testing time was up they quickly got rid of her and she ended in an orphanage where she was abused...just saying they really had no heart for her to begin with...
Fevrure 1 year ago
which one of them got rid of her?? i think maybe you're confusing Victor's story with Genie's
franita1988 11 months ago
@franita1988 watch Secret of The Wild Child part 6, it answers your question
Fevrure 11 months ago
@Fevrure even though it is cruel, but they have to do that so she can let it all out. It is one time thing.
HottyAsakura 1 year ago
@Fevrure As cruel as it may seem, it's key in finding a way to effectively help her.
ThRedBaron 11 months ago
I think the moral of the story is" Like Victor once these children become less of a scientific curiosity they become expendable!
FULLOOKKK 2 years ago
When she vocalized her childhood experiences, that was very powerful. It's not a simple thing to understand. But she seems to be expressing a very primitive form of distress.
I will never understand what can make a person treat another person as Genie was treated.
Canuckboy123 2 years ago 6
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thaprecepta 2 years ago
where does the girl live now? and how old is she its 2010 now she like what fifty right?
Quilmaster12 2 years ago
According to Wikipedia, Genie (born in 1957) will be 53 years old on 18th April this year. She lives in sheltered accommodation in an undisclosed location in Southern California
Lionstar16 2 years ago