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'Secret of the Wild Child'PBS Airdate: March 4, 1997ANNOUNCER:Tonight on NOVA, the Emmy Award-winning story of a girl who spenther childhood locked in a bedroom.WALTER CRONKITE:The girl reportedly was still wearing diapers when a socialworker discovered the case two weeks ago.ANNOUNCER:Raised in isolation, 'Genie' was a wild child, uncivilized, barelyable to walk or talk.SUSAN CURTISS: The indications are that she was beaten for making noise.ANNOUNCER:With footage never before seen on television, NOVA follows thecontroversial efforts to unlock the 'Secret of the Wild Child.' NOVA is funded by Prudential.Prudential. Insurance, health care, real estate, and financial services. Formore than a century, bringing strength and stability to America's families.And by Merck. Pharmaceutical research.
Dedicated to preventingdisease and improving health. Committed to bringing out the best inmedicine.The Corporation for Public Broadcasting. And viewers like you.STACY KEACH: Once in a great while, civilized society comes across a wildchild, a child who has grown up in severe isolation with virtually no humancontact. This is the story of such a case. The story begins in Los Angeles onNovember 4, 1970.WALTER CRONKITE:Officials in the Los Angeles suburb of Arcadia have takencustody of a thirteen-year-old girl they say was kept in such isolation by herparents that she never even learned to talk. Her elderly parents have beencharged with child abuse.STACY KEACH: This is the scene of the crime. The child was locked in a roomand tied to a potty chair for most of her life.
Completely restrained, she wasforced to sit alone day after day and often through the night. She had littleto look at and no one to talk to for more than ten years.WALTER CRONKITE:The girl reportedly was uttering infantile noises and stillwearing diapers when a social worker discovered the case two weeks ago, but theauthorities are hoping she still may have a normal learning capacity.STACY KEACH: Here was a thirteen-year-old who seemed like an infant, a girlwho'd be known as 'Genie.'