Cambodian “Jungle Girl” Struggles to Adapt

By Spluch in Everything Else on Jan 19, 2007 at 9:46 am

Rochom.jpgFrom Fox News:

A woman who disappeared in the jungles of northeastern Cambodia as a child has apparently been found after living in the wild for 19 years, police said Thursday.

The woman รขโ‚ฌโ€ believed to be Rochom P’ngieng, now 27 years old รขโ‚ฌโ€ cannot speak any intelligible language, so details of her saga have been difficult to confirm. “She is like half-human and half-animal,” said Mao San, police chief of Oyadao district in Rattanakiri province. “She’s weird. She sleeps during the day and stays up at night.”

Rochom P’ngieng, then 8 years old, disappeared one day in 1988 when she was herding buffalo in a remote northeastern jungle area, said Chea Bunthoeun, a deputy provincial police chief. She was discovered this month after a villager noticed that food disappeared from a lunch box he left at a site near his farm.

Since being found, the woman has had difficulty adjusting to normal life, apparently because of her long stay in the wild, said Mao San.

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