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Linguists, psychologists, anthropologists flood to Cambodia.

By omnibrain on January 18, 2007.

i-8f2095a701777599d19a737bd4a3027e-wildchild.jpegOk... not really - but I see some lawsuits coming on who can research the wild girl ;)

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - 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 - believed to be Rochom P'ngieng, now 27 years old - 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."

The father of Rochom P'ngieng, a member of the Pnong ethnic minority, said he recognized his daughter by a scar on her back and her facial features, according to Mao San. The father is a village policeman named Sal Lou.

Rochom P'ngieng, then eight 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.

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Perhaps someone could locate Tarzan and call on him to translate. DO NOT however call on the Geico Neandertal, as he is going through a "sensitive" phase,and would get all insulted.

poor guy! I like those commercials ;)