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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.100,0:00:06.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tonight on Nova, the shocking story of a girl who spent her childhood locked in a bedroom.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.14,0:00:10.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The girl reportedly was wearing diapers, social workers discovered the case two weeks ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.80,0:00:16.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Raised in isolation, Genie was a wild child,\Nuncivilized barely able to walk or talk.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.43,0:00:19.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The indications are that she was\Nbeaten for making noise.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.12,0:00:22.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(narrator) With footage never before \Nseen on television.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.27,0:00:26.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nova follows the controversial efforts to\Nunlock the secrets of the wild child.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.66,0:00:46.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(narrator) Once in a great while, \Ncivilized society comes across a wild child.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.03,0:00:50.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A child who has grown up in severe isolation, \Nwith virtually no human contact.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.70,0:00:53.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the story of such a case.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.54,0:01:01.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The story begins in Los Angeles, \Non November 4th 1970.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.01,0:01:02.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(reporter) Specials in the Los Angeles suburb of Arcadia,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.54,0:01:06.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have taken custody of a 13-year-old girl and\Nthey say was kept in such isolation by her parents
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.98,0:01:09.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that she never even learned to talk.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.96,0:01:11.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her elderly parents have been \Ncharged with child abuse
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.73,0:01:14.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Narrator) This is the scene of the crime,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.11,0:01:18.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the child was locked in the room and\Ntied to a potty chair for most of her life.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.50,0:01:27.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Completely restrained she was forced to sit alone day after day and often through the night.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.44,0:01:32.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She had little to look at and no one \Nto talk to for more than 10 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.74,0:01:36.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The girl reportedly was making infantile \Nnoises and still wearing diapers,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.12,0:01:38.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when a social worker discovered \Nthe case 2 weeks ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.49,0:01:42.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Authorities are hoping that she still may \Nhave a normal learning capacity.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.86,0:01:48.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here was a 13-year-old who seemed like an infant, girl who would be known as Genie.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.08,0:01:56.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Genie was taken to Childrens hospital in Los Angeles
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.81,0:02:01.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where she immediately won the \Nheart of doctors and scientists
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.15,0:02:07.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was fragile and beautiful almost haunting and\Nso I was pulled and I was very drawn to her
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.70,0:02:13.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even though I was nervous and had no idea \Nin many respects what to expect.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.31,0:02:19.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Genie was about to test an idea important to \Nscience and society.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.34,0:02:23.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That a nurturing environment can make up for even \Nthe most nightmarish past.