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Genie (feral child) Genie (born 1957) is the pseudonym of an American feral child who was a victim of severe abuse, neglect, and social isolation. Her circumstances are prominently recorded in the annals of linguistics and abnormal child psychology. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] When she was approximately 20 months old, her father began keeping her in a ...
Mary Ellen Wilson. Mary Ellen Wilson (March 1864 – October 30, 1956), also called Mary Ellen McCormack, was an American victim of child abuse whose case led to the creation of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the first child protection agency in the world. [1] At the age of eight, she was severely abused by her ...
Cases involving adults. Kaspar Hauser, Nuremberg, Germany, 16 years. [49] Marvin L. Maple, US, arrested in 2009 for kidnapping his grandchildren, 20 years earlier. Colleen Stan, US, an American woman who was kidnapped and held captive between 1977 and 1984. Alexander Komin, Vyatskiye Polyany, Kirov Oblast, Russia.
McMartin preschool trial. The McMartin preschool trial was a day care sexual abuse case in the 1980s, prosecuted by the Los Angeles District Attorney, Ira Reiner. [1] Members of the McMartin family, who operated a preschool in Manhattan Beach, California, were charged with hundreds of acts of sexual abuse of children in their care.
Child cruelty. Victoria Adjo Climbié (2 November 1991 – 25 February 2000) was an eight-year-old Ivorian girl who was tortured and murdered by her great-aunt and her great-aunt's boyfriend. Her death led to a public inquiry, and produced major changes in child protection policies in the United Kingdom. Born in Abobo, Côte d'Ivoire, Victoria ...
The Turpin case involved the abuse of children and dependent adults by their biological parents, David and Louise Turpin of Perris, California, U.S. The ages of the 13 victims ranged from 2 to 29 years-old. On January 14, 2018, one of the daughters, then-17-year-old Jordan Turpin, escaped and called local police, who then raided the residence ...
Murder of Elisa Izquierdo. Elisa Izquierdo (February 11, 1989 – November 22, 1995) [3] was a six-year-old Puerto Rican – Cuban-American girl [2] who died of a brain hemorrhage [2] inflicted by her mother, Awilda Lopez, at the peak of a prolonged and escalating campaign of physical, mental, emotional, and sexual abuse conducted between 1994 ...
Before Dunne's crime-writing job, he was a famous Hollywood producer on films like 1970 "The Boys in the Band." In 1954, he married Ellen Griffin, and they had five children together before their ...