Story here.
I remember when they found her. Hers will certainly be an amazing story once she’s able to communicate it.
Excerpts: "Cambodia’s ‘jungle girl,’ who lived alone in the forest for 18 years after vanishing at age nine, has learned to dress herself, bathe, and laugh in the year-and-a-half since she returned to her family, but she remains unable to speak, her father and a local police officer say.
"Rochom P’ngieng, now 29, vanished in 1989 while tending buffalo near the jungle in Cambodia’s remote northern Rattanakiri province.
"Her plight came to light when a villager noticed some of his food had been taken and staked out the area, 350 kms (220 miles) northeast of Phnom Penh.
“No doctors or aid workers have visited her since January 2007, he said. Nor has her DNA been tested to ascertain that she is Sal Lou’s daughter. She ran back to the jungle for nine days in April 2007 but her mother retrieved her after village children reported seeing her.”
That last part about the DNA. Even if it IS determined at some point that she’s not the daughter in question, it’s clear she did grow up alone in the jungle.
