Is this a hoax? Back in the late 80s, there was another story very much like this one, where Vietnamese villagers set up an ambush for whoever or whatever had apparently been sneaking into villages in the area at night and stealing chickens, one at a time, for months. To their surprise, the villagers captured a disheveled nude teenage girl with poorly-cut hair who was only about four-and-a-half feet tall and very skinny. When they finally got government officials involved, the villagers had been holding the naked girl all tied up and gagged all the time for over two weeks because, they said, she thrashed about wildly and was dangerous, and the only sounds she made were unintelligible shrieks that disturbed the village children.
This girl was also Cambodian, and had to be coaxed back into using language because she had lived in the surrounding jungle for over ten years and lost her vocabulary, forgetting what words meant. The officials got enough of her story to know that she had escaped a Khmer Rouge execution squad who had killed her family when she had been about five years old, and she had apparently hidden from all human contact in the jungle since then. That made her about sixteen years old when she was captured. This girl also insisted on constantly taking off all the clothes she had been given, and eventually vanished, probably back into the jungle. This story sounds eerily like the Rochom case, except that no one knew who this girl was or claimed she was their daughter.
This girl was also Cambodian, and had to be coaxed back into using language because she had lived in the surrounding jungle for over ten years and lost her vocabulary, forgetting what words meant. The officials got enough of her story to know that she had escaped a Khmer Rouge execution squad who had killed her family when she had been about five years old, and she had apparently hidden from all human contact in the jungle since then. That made her about sixteen years old when she was captured. This girl also insisted on constantly taking off all the clothes she had been given, and eventually vanished, probably back into the jungle. This story sounds eerily like the Rochom case, except that no one knew who this girl was or claimed she was their daughter.