Feral Russian Girl Raised By Cats And Dogs In Siberia: Police

May. 27, 2009
In a real-life "Jungle Book" situation, a 5-year-old Russian girl has been rescued from an un-heated Siberian flat, where she has lived her entire life in the company of feral cats and dogs without ever really adopting a vocabulary, police told the Ria-Novosti news agency. According to...
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