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'Half-animal' woman found in Cambodian jungle
Topic Started: Jan 19 2007, 01:50 AM (974 Views)
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'Half-animal' woman found in Cambodian jungle may be long-missing daughter

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A woman who disappeared in the jungles of northeastern Cambodia as a child has apparently been found after living in the wild for 19 years, police and a man claiming to be her father said Thursday.

The woman - believed to be Rochom P'ngieng, who would now be 27 years old - cannot speak any intelligible language, so details of her saga have been difficult to confirm.

"When I saw her, she was naked and walking in a bending-forward position like a monkey... She was bare-bones skinny," said Sal Lou, who says he is her father.

"She was shaking and picking up grains of rice from the ground to eat. Her eyes were red like tigers' eyes," Sal Lou, 45, told The Associated Press by telephone from Oyadao district in Rattanakiri province, where the woman was found last Saturday.

Rochom P'ngieng, then 8 years old, disappeared in 1988 when she was herding buffalo in a remote jungle area, said Chea Bunthoeun, a deputy provincial police chief.

The province is about 325 kilometers (200 miles) northeast of Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh.

Mao San, police chief of Oyadao district, described the woman as 'half-human and half-animal.'

Sal Lou, a village policeman who is a member of the Pnong ethnic minority, said he recognised his daughter by a scar on her right arm, a result of a cut from a knife she played with when she was young.

The woman was discovered this month after a villager noticed that food disappeared from a lunch box he left at a site near his farm, Chea Bunthoeun said.

"He decided to stake out the area and then spotted a naked human being, who looked like a jungle person, sneaking in to steal his rice," he said.

The villager gathered some friends and the group managed to catch the woman on Jan. 13.

Since being found, the woman has had difficulty adjusting to normal life, apparently because of her long stay in the wild.

Sal Lou said it was virtually impossible to communicate with her because she cannot speak the local Pnong language.

When she is hungry, she pats her stomach as a signal.

"If she is not sleeping, she just sits and glances left and right, left and right," he said.

Sal Lou said his family was now closely watching the woman after she took off her clothes Thursday morning and acted as if she was going back into the jungle.

Many questions still remain unanswered about the circumstances of her disappearance and what happened to her in the wild, said Mao San, the district police chief.

Authorities want medical experts to take DNA samples from the parents and the woman to see if they match. The parents have given verbal consent for such a test, he said.


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No picture? Darn.
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I've slept with women like that. <_<
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Jan 18 2007, 10:01 PM
No picture? Darn.

Exactly what I was going to say.
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I watched a TV Documentary about a feral child who grew up in a dog-house with dogs looking after her as her parents abandoned her on a farmyard. She couldn't speak, and she barked and howled like a dog. It's sad really. :/

Ta for the story, interesting read.
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Jan 19 2007, 02:28 AM
I watched a TV Documentary about a feral child who grew up in a dog-house with dogs looking after her as her parents abandoned her on a farmyard. She couldn't speak, and she barked and howled like a dog. It's sad really. :/

Ta for the story, interesting read.

I saw that too. First thing I thought of as I read this.
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Interesting read. Red eyes though?
Tis a shame. Makes me always wonder how does one survive the wild.

Surely she must know some language though if she was 8 when she was missing? Mind you, When your young its easier to learn and forget I guess?
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Very interesting read.
19 years in the wild.

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Surely she must know some language though if she was 8 when she was missing? Mind you, When your young its easier to learn and forget I guess?

I guess so.
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She must be the ******* child of Ray Mears.
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Pictures FTW. Interesting story ;o
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Wow, that's really... [No word]
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holy shit look who it is
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Wow, interesting.
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It's pretty interesting to know that a human born in this day and age can survive out in the wild for that long with nothing but nature to survive, it would of been good if there were pictures.
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Wow. Amazing she could survive that long.
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it's kinda like Tarzan or something. I'm sure she wasn't REALLY half-animal, she just acted like an animal after living with them so long.
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