Genie
In Los Angeles in 1970, a 13-year-old girl was found who had lived as a prisoner since birth tied to a potty in a back room of her parents' house, unable to move anything except her hands and feet and without having heard human speech.
After her escape with her blind mother, Genie (not her real name) became an object of fascination to psychological and linguistic researchers because she couldn't speak and was completely unsocialised. For a while she was fostered by the head of the project's family, but when scientists ceased to be interested in her she was returned, still severely disturbed, to her inadequate mother and forgotten.
Horizon tells her story, and Investigates what subsequently became of the girl after she helped scientists with their study. Producers Linda Garman and Colin Poole Series editor Jana Bennett Stereo
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