Child Locked In Attic For 13 Years

When she was approximately 20 months old her father began keeping her in a locked room.

Child locked in attic for 13 years.

The french socialite locked in her attic for 25 years blanche. Is this something like a cinderella syndrome. This girl was locked alone in a room for 12 years before she was. Her disapproving mother angered by her daughter s defiance locked her in a tiny dark room in the attic of their home where she kept her secluded for 25 years.

Just like any other girl she was searching for her prince charming. Blanche was 25 years old and was desperate to find a suitor before her flames of youth became extinguished. Louise monnier and her brother marcel continued on with their daily lives pretending to mourn blanche s death. Blanche s father emile who had been the head of a local arts faculty died in 1879.

An oshkosh couple have been charged with keeping a 13 year old girl locked in a sparsely furnished bedroom in the attic of this home for about 20 hours a day for about two years. If she made any. It wasn t until genie was 13 years old that her abuse was discovered. Because of her father s sensitivity to noice and lack of care for others genie spent the first 13 years of her life strapped to a potty or a chair in a homemade straightjacket.

On november 4 1970 her mother who was nearly blind sought public assistance in temple city california after leaving her husband. The social worker soon discovered that the girl had been confined to a small room and an investigation by authorities quickly revealed that the child had spent most of her life in this room often tied to a potty chair. A third a boy named john survived followed five years later by the girl who would become known as genie. Story of child kept in a cage told by now grown.

When a social worker met with the family genie s appearance and condition gave away the sinister secrets. When a drunk driver killed wiley s mother in 1958 he unravelled into anger and paranoia.