Sunday, May 31, 2009

Russian 'Jungle Book' girl adapting to daily life

  • A five-year-old girl Russian who was shut away with dogs and cats is adapting to normal life after being rescued and transferred to a clinic
  • she had been found living with the animals in the filthy apartment in Eastern Siberia
  • "Everything is fine. Other medical tests will be carried out but she is in good health," the director of the rehabilitation centre Tatyana Missnik told the RIA Novosti news agency.
    "The one problem is that at five years old she doesn't speak. We don't know why."
  • Police announced Wednesday that child protection officers had taken the girl into care at the "Nadezhda" (Hope) children's rehabilitation centre.
  • Doctors said the girl pushed aside a spoon offered for eating, preferring instead to lap up food.
  • police said her father -- with whom Natasha had lived -- had been briefly detained and could face a criminal investigation
  • "The mother says that the father stole the girl from her. The father said that the grandmother of his wife suggested he bring up the girl himself, which he did."
  • In March, President Dmitry Medvedev urged action on child abuse, saying 760,000 children were living in "socially hazardous conditions".

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