March 29, 2019
Genie Wiley
James Kent
Susan Curtiss
Ava Rodriguez
This is such an interesting article. It is crazy how Genie went through thirteen years without any social interactions. It is heartbreaking thither are so many feral children out there in the world not interacting with others and not developing social skills. She should have had a normal childhood, and received help.
31/03/2019
9:12 pm
Makenzie Santana
The article was extremely well written, it did an amazing job at giving information along with the depth of the topic. Reading this was heartbreaking, Genie lived such an unfair life, being abused by her father, then treated like a test by scientists, and then abandoned by her mother being put in foster care. It seemed like no one genuinely cared for Genie and never got the care she deserved from day one. It angers me knowing that even tho she was used for research, she was improving with linguistics and on the road to recovery, and even though I understand the mother’s frustration with her daughter being used solely for research, she took her away from that road and then abandoned her soon after that, leaving Genie to go back to square one.
31/03/2019
9:12 pm
Chelsea Alvarez
This article was very well written. The descriptions used throughout to describe the conditions of Genie gave me chills. Her father’s abuse and neglect is so horrifying and unimaginable to think that a father could do that to his own daughter. I am glad that Genie was able to be rescued. It was so interesting to read that actual research was conducted to find out what exactly had gone with her development. Genie’s story is tragic but also very interesting. It is a shame that she chose not to speak in the end.
31/03/2019
9:12 pm
Noah Wesolowski
It’s crazy to think that a child could grow up like this. Genie Wiley once found was in a terrible condition I can’t imagine how terrible it was to find her trapped in her house stuck in diapers and unable to speak. While her father escaped his punishment by committing suicide the way he treated and abused his family made it clear it was not right in the head.
31/03/2019
9:12 pm
Diego Terrazas
This story is very much saddening. Genie was treated as a test subject rather than a human being. They were attempting to teach her linguistic skills, but for the sake of science and thus there is not much compassion there. i do not believe she was initially mentally ill but had drastic physiological damage and also lack of development in what makes humans human.
31/03/2019
9:12 pm
Krystal Rodriguez
I have heard about this girl before. Her story is so saddening and it’s tragic that someone would do that to an innocent child. It’s horrible to hear how she was treated and all the years she spent alone with no one to help her. Her ending is also so sad since the scientist used her for their own research And left her even more scared than before.
01/04/2019
9:12 pm
Paola Arellano
To think that any human could be cruel enough to hate their child this much is eye opening. If your own father could not treat you like a human being then your test of other people would probably be close to none. I am very glad that the mother finally built up the courage to go and tell a social worker because who knows what would of happened if she did not. Of course the father committed suicide as most cowards do once they are caught with their crimes because they cannot bear the embarrassment or shame that they would face. I am not sure if I like the idea that scientists took her as an opportunity and a type of experiment but if they were helping her, for example, to speak then maybe it was beneficial.
01/04/2019
9:12 pm
Michael Hinojosa
I remember learning about this story in my linguistics class but I had no idea that the abuse and torture was this horrendous. Everything just gets worse when you realize that this whole story of Genie Wiley just went full circle as even when she was picked up by the researchers and was given arguably better treatment with them than at home she ended up being sent back to her mother who sent her to a foster home which in turn erased all of the progress the scientists made with her.
01/04/2019
9:12 pm
Engelbert Madrid
I can’t believe how a father could place his child in a cage and to leave her isolated from her family and the world. This is quite saddening, because no child deserves to be place in such conditions where he or she feels like nothing. Although Genie Wiley, the victim child, was saved at thirteen-years old, her life would never be the same.
01/04/2019
9:12 pm
Alicia Guzman
What an interesting article! How horrific and terribly sad the tribulations that Genie had to go through in such a developmental period of her life. Prior to reading this article, I had no idea what the critical period was and how important it was to the development of speech ability. It is truly sad that through all of Genie’s hardship she never got a happy ending either.
31/03/2019
9:12 pm