"Feral child" is the latest project of the photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten (Julia Fullerton-Batten), in which she offers a look at the children who grew up under unusual circumstances.
Photographer gained fame after a series of photos of "Stories of teenagers" in 2005 when she studied the girl transition into adulthood.
Fullerton-Batten said that the book "Girl with no name" inspired her to search for other cases of feral children. So she collected several stories.Some of them lost, stolen other wild animals, and many of these children have been deprived of attention.
Children Mowgli
Lobo - wolf girl from Mexico, 1845-1852
In 1845, the girl ran on all fours with a pack of wolves chasing a herd of goats. A year later, people saw her again when she, along with the wolves ate goat. The girl was caught, but she escaped. In 1852, she was again noticed, fed two cubs. However, she ran away again, and since then the girl is no longer seen.
Oxana Malaya, Ukraine, 1991
Oksana found in the kennel dogs in 1991. She was 8 years old, and they lived with dogs for 6 years. Her parents were alcoholics, and one day they just left her on the street. In search of warmth 3-year-old girl climbed into the kennel, hiding from the pooch.
When they found her, she was more like a dog than a child. Oksana was running on all fours, breathing, tongue hanging out, its teeth and barked. Due to lack of human contact, she knew only the words "yes" and "no."
With intensive care little girl taught basic social conversational skills, but only at the level of 5 years. Oxana Malaya now 30 years old, she lives in a clinic in Odessa and works with pets Hospital under the direction of its trustees.
Shamdeo, India, 1972
Shamdeo - 4-year-old boy was found in a forest in India in 1972. He played with the cubs, his skin was very dark, he had sharpened teeth, long, hooked nails, matted hair and growths on the hands, elbows and knees. The boy loved to hunt chickens could eat the earth, and he wanted blood.
Shamdao weaned in time to eat raw meat, he did not talk, but can communicate in sign language. In 1978, he was accepted in the House for the poor and dying of Mother Teresa in the city of Lucknow, where he was named Pascal. He died in February 1985.
Rights - boy, bird, Russia, 2008
Rights - 7-year-old boy was found in a small one-bedroom apartment where he lived with his 31-year-old mother. He was imprisoned in a room filled with cells of birds, and the mother treated him as a pet. While she was feeding the boy and beat him, she had never spoken with him. His only source of communication were the birds. He could not speak, but only twittered and waved his arms like wings.
The Law was transferred to the center of psychological care, where doctors are trying to rehabilitate.
Marina Chapman - "Girl with no name", Colombia, 1959
Marina was kidnapped in 1954 at the age of 5 years old from a remote South African village and left in the jungle. Girl 5 years lived with a family of small monkeys, capuchin until it was discovered by hunters. She ate berries, roots, bananas, left monkeys sleep in tree hollows, and walked on all fours.
Once she was poisoned, and the older the monkey took her to the water, which forced her to drink until she pulled out and not recovered.
Girl friends with young monkeys, who taught her to climb trees and eat safe food.
When she found out, she completely forgot how to speak. The girl was sold to a brothel, where she ran away and lived on the street. Then it took into slavery mafia family while Marina had not saved a neighbor sent her to Bogota for her daughter and son in law. When Marina had reached adolescence, she was offered a job as a nanny and housekeeper.She moved to the UK in 1977, where he still lives.
Now she is married and she has children. However, in the younger daughter, Vanessa James, she wrote a book his experience, "The girl with no name."
Wild Children
Madina, girl Mowgli, Russia, 2013
Madina from birth lived with dogs until she was 3 years old. She shared a meal, played and slept with them in the winter cold. When social workers found her in 2013, the girl walked on all fours, was naked and growling like a dog.
Madina's father left the family soon after the birth of a girl. The mother, who was 23 years old, began drinking, did not care about her daughter and often disappears. His mother invited friends of alcoholics home, where she could eat at the table, while the daughter gnaw bones with the dogs.
The girl ran to the playground when the mother became aggressive, but the other children did not want to play with her, since she did not talk much and fought. Only friends for her steel dog.
Doctors concluded that Madina mental and physical health, despite all fallen to its share of trials. Great are the chances that she will have a normal life when she learns to talk like children her age.
Gini, USA, 1970
When Gini was a child, my father decided that it is "backward" and tied her to a chair, children's toilet in a small room.There, she spent 10 years and even slept in his chair. When she was 13 years old in 1970, she and her mother appealed to the social service.
The girl was not accustomed to the toilet and went strangely toward "like a rabbit." Jeanie did not speak and did not publish any sounds, constantly spitting and scratching himself. For years it has been the object of research. Gradually, she learned to speak a few words, but I could not build them grammatically. She also began to read simple texts and she has developed a certain form of social behavior.
For a while, she again began to live with her mother, but then for several years has been in foster care, where experienced abuse. Jeanie returned to the children's hospital, where she regressed and paused again.
Funding for the study and treatment of Gini was discontinued in 1974. For a long time about her fate was not known until a private investigator did not find her in a private specialized institution for mentally retarded adults.
Boy leopard, India, 1912
The boy was 2 years old when he took the female leopard in 1912. Three years later, a hunter killed her and found the three cubs, one of whom was a 5-year-old boy. He was returned to the family in a small village in India.
When it was first found, he squatted and ran on all fours faster than many adults on two legs. His knees were covered with tumors, and the toes are wrapped almost at a right angle to the lifting legs, palms and paw big toes and hands were covered with thick and calloused skin. He bit and fought with everyone who approached him, eating raw poultry.The boy could not speak, only groaning and uttering growls.
Later he learned to talk and walk straight. Unfortunately, he became blind from cataracts. But it was not related to his stay in the jungle, and that the disease was hereditary.
Sujit Kumar - boy chicken, Fiji, 1978
Sujit different dysfunctional behavior in childhood. Parents locked the boy in the hen house. His mother committed suicide and his father was killed. Educate a boy became a grandfather, but he still kept him in the chicken coop.
At the age of 8 years Sudzhita found the middle of the road when he cackled and waved his "wings."
He pecked food and bent in his chair, as if the roost, and make a clicking sound of the language.
His fingers were twisted inward. Social workers took him to a nursing home, but there is because of the fact that he was aggressive, he was tied to the bed sheets for 20 years. Now he has more than 30 years, and it takes care of a woman, Elizabeth Clayton, who had saved him from his home.
Kamala and Amala, India, 1920
This is one of the most famous cases of feral children. Kamal, 8 years old, and Amal, a 12-year-old found in 1920 in a den of wolves. They found the Reverend Joseph Singh, who was hiding in a tree above the cave, where the girls were.When the wolves left the cave, he saw the girls, who ran on all fours and did not look like people.
When they were caught, they were sleeping, curled up, growling, tearing his clothes and ate only raw meat. Their tendons and ligaments in the arms and legs were deformed and shortened. They did not express any interest in dealing with people. However, their hearing, sight and smell was exceptional.
Amala died the following year after the girls caught. Kamala over time learned to walk upright and began to speak a few words, but she died in 1929 of kidney failure at the age of 17 years.
Ivan Mishukov, Russia, 1998
Ivan had been ill-treated by his family and ran away from home when he was only 4 years. He lived on the streets, begging, and eventually became friends with a pack of wild dogs, and shared with them a meal. Dogs began to trust him and in the end, it was for them something of a leader.
Thus, he lived for about 2 years, but in the end, he was found and placed in an orphanage. Ivan helped that he preserved language skills through begging. That and the fact that he was a feral short time, helped him recover faster. Now helives a normal life.
John Ssebunya (boy monkey), Uganda, 1991
John ran away from home in 1988, when he was 3 years old, he witnessed how his father killed his mother. He escaped into the jungle, where he lived with monkeys. It was discovered in 1991 and was placed in an orphanage. When washed, they found that his body was covered with hair.
His meals consisted mainly of roots, nuts, sweet potatoes and cassava, he had found a lot of intestinal worms that reach to half a meter in length. On his lap was the build-up of walking like a monkey.
John learned to talk, he has found a good voice for singing, and he became famous, touring in the UK and speaking with the children's choir "Pearl of Africa".
Children Mowgli in world history
Marie Angelique Memmi LeBlanc (wild girl of Champagne), France, 1731
History of Marie Angelique Memmi LeBlanc (Marie Angelique Memmie Le Blanc), which occurred in the 18th century, has been well documented. For 10 years, the girl herself took thousands of kilometers of forest in France. She feeds the birds, frogs, fish, leaves, branches and roots.
Armed with a club, it fend off wild animals, especially wolves.
When it was discovered at the age of 19 years, she has acquired hair, her skin was dark, and the hands were claws.When she bent down to drink water, she constantly looked around because that was in a constant state of vigilance.She could not talk and communicate only through the shouts and squeals.
She skinned with rabbits and birds and eaten raw. For many years, Memmi not eat cooked food. Her thumb was deformed as it used it to dig up the roots and swaying from one tree to another like a monkey.
In 1737 the Queen of Poland - the French queen mother took Memmi hunting with him, which she ran fast enough and kill rabbits.
Memmi recovery after a decade spent in the wilderness, it was awesome. She had a few wealthy patrons, she learned to read, write and speak fluent French. In 1747, she was for a while became a nun, but her patron died. She got sick and left without means of livelihood, but soon found a new patron. In 1755, Madame Heket (Hecquet) published her biography. Memmi died, being prosperous in Paris in 1775 at age 63.
Victor - a wild boy of Aveyron, France, 1797
This is a historic and well-documented case of feral child who carefully examined in order to understand the origin of language.
Victor saw at the end of the 18th century in the woods of San sulfur-sur-Rance in the south of France, he was captured, but escaped.
However, January 8th, 1800 he was again caught. Victor was about 12 years old, his body was covered with scars, and he could not talk. When news of his capture spread, many people wanted to learn it. It is believed that he spent 7 years in the wild.
Professor of Biology examined resistance Victor, sending him naked in the snow, and he stood the test well.
Others tried to teach him how to talk and behave normally, but without success. Perhaps the boy could talk in early childhood, but was unable to recover these skills, returning from the wild. As a result, he was taken to the Institute in Paris, and he died at the age of 40 years.
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