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Jung-le Girl

 
 
Reply Thu 18 Jan, 2007 09:38 am
HANOI (Reuters) - A woman has been returned to her home in Vietnam's Central Highlands 18 years after she went missing as an eight-year old girl tending cows near the Cambodian border, her father told a newspaper on Thursday.

Policeman Ksor Lu long believed that his daughter had been eaten by a wild animal until last Saturday when he was told that loggers had found "a forestman" at a village in Cambodia's province of Ratanakiri.

Lu arrived and "recognized his daughter from the first sighting" even though her body was blackened and she had long hair down to her legs and could not speak, according to the account in the Vietnam Rural Today newspaper.

Lu said his daughter, Ro Cham H'pnhieng of the Jrai ethnic minority group, probably spent most of the time in the jungle in Cambodia since she went missing in 1989.

The loggers told Lu that they caught her after realizing that someone had sneaked up and taken their lunch.

Lu said that at first it was difficult bringing her back to normal life because she resisted showering, wearing clothes or using chopsticks, fending him off and shouting and crying.

Four days later she started cooperating, Lu said.
"It is not easy indeed but life is waiting ahead for her."


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070118/wl_nm/vietnam_woman_dc

Oh man, that gets me going!:eek: Imagine a human mind barely touched by anything but nature, survival and solitude. Weird to think about.

Well have a nice day!:p
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Reply Thu 18 Jan, 2007 11:04 am
@Electra phil,
Wow, interesting story indeed. That's a long time... can't wait for the book. Smile
Electra phil
 
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Reply Sat 20 Jan, 2007 06:43 am
@Justin,
Justin wrote:
Wow, interesting story indeed. That's a long time... can't wait for the book. Smile


Hi Justin

Well as with most things, the different news coverages are unclear and in some ways contradictory. But it did capture my imagination. A person set apart from society, family, words, manners, etc. In nature, just surviving and being human.



'Jungle Woman' Yields No Clues to Past
Jan 20, 2:02 AM EST
By KER MUNTHIT
Associated Press Writer http://hosted.ap.org/photos/T/TOK80401191350-big.jpgPrivacy Policy.

I am not really sure if I was supposed to copy and paste that, but here is the link:

http://www.columbian.com/news/APStories/AP01202007news94989.cfm
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Justin
 
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Reply Sat 20 Jan, 2007 08:16 am
@Electra phil,
I think the link is sufficient. If they ask to remove it, I'll remove it.
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