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[News anchor] Officials in the [br]

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Los Angeles suburb of Arcadia

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have taken custody of a 13 year old girl,

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who they say, was kept in such isolation[br]by her parents,

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that she never even learned to talk.

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The girl still wore diapers,

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and was uttering infantile noises,

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when a social worker discovered the case

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two weeks ago.

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The authorities are hoping

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she still may have a normal[br]learning capacity.

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Among the first to see the child

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was Temple City detective,

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Sergeant Frank Linley.

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[Eerie music]

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[Sgt. Linley] I already knew that

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the child was 13 1/2 years old,

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and I took one look at her,

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and she wasn't much bigger

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than my daughter, Beverly,

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who had just turned seven[br]about 3 months earlier.

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And, I really had a hard time

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conceiving of the idea that the child

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was the age that she was.

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The child, uh, obviously,

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had been severely mistreated.

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She was still in diapers, couldn't walk,

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she had no verbal skills at all,[br]at that point.

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[Eerie music]

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The last time I was on this street

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was probably 30 years ago.

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Yep, there it is.

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Hasn't changed much.

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The back yard looks the same.

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It's all weeds and dead grass.

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Looks the same as it did in 1970.

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[Narrator] The house belonged[br]to Clark Wiley.

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A loner, Clark had turned his

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back on the world,

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after his mother had been killed

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in a hit and run accident.

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After the accident,

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things in the Wiley house

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would never be the same again.

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[Sgt. Linley] The house was[br]completely dark.

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All the blinds were drawn.

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There were no toys.

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No clothes.

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Nothing that would ever[br]indicate to you

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that a child of any age[br]lived there.

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[Eerie music. Passing cars whoosh.]

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The child