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  • The girl in the window - St. Petersburg Times

    Rated Nov 20 2008 • 192 reviews • psychology • tampabay.com

    THE GIRL IN THE WINDOW

    By Lane DeGregory, Times Staff Writer
    The girl in the window
    "    PLANT CITY — The family had lived in the rundown rental house for almost three years when someone first saw a child's face in the window. A little girl, pale, with dark eyes, lifted a dirty blanket above the broken glass and peered out, one neighbor remembered.


    Everyone knew a woman lived in the house with her boyfriend and two adult sons. But they had never seen a child there, had never noticed anyone playing in the overgrown yard. Just before noon on July 13, 2005, a Plant City police car pulled up outside that shattered window. Two officers went into the house...

    The girl in the window
    The doctors and social workers had no way of knowing all that had happened to Danielle    . But the scene at the house, along with Danielle's almost comatose condition, led them to believe she had never been cared for beyond basic sustenance. Hard as it was to imagine, they doubted she had ever been taken out in the sun, sung to sleep, even hugged or held. She was fragile and beautiful, but whatever makes a person human seemed somehow missing."



    The girl in the windowArmstrong called the girl's condition "environmental autism." Danielle had been deprived of interaction for so long, the doctor believed, that she had withdrawn into herself.

    The most extraordinary thing about Danielle, Armstrong said, was her lack of engagement with people, with anything. "There was no light in her eye, no response or recognition. . . . We saw a little girl who didn't even respond to hugs or affection. Even a child with the most severe autism responds to those."

    The authorities had discovered the rarest and most pitiable of creatures: a feral child.

    "In the first five years of life, 85 percent of the brain is developed," said Armstrong, the psychologist who examined Danielle. "Those early relationships, more than anything else, help wire the brain and provide children with the experience to trust, to develop language, to communicate. They need that system to relate to the world."

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    This article was really hard to read without crying. It's heartbreaking to hear  about the conditions this child was found in and to realize that there children out there who  have never really felt what it was like to be loved  and cared for. And that there are people out there so mentally ill equipped to raise a child and some even who are so emotionally bankrupt that they wouldn't think twice to lock their children away in a room and forget about them. Without nurturing them or caring for them...it's just hard to wrap my mind around that type of situation.

    [STORY UPDATE WITH VIDEO]