Eerily similar to Genie- The Story of A wild Child

While it is disgusting what these "scientist's" did to Nim. In the 70's another experiment quite similar was happening to a little Girl named Genie. She was a little girl who had been extremely abused and isolated from humans. She was tied down to a potty seat, in a dark room from the time she was 3 to 13. Her father was the abuser. Eventually her mother finally had enough of the abuse and told social services. Since no one communicated with her, the entire time she was held captive, she never picked up language.

She was discovered in 1970 right when the whole nurture vs nature debate, was very prevalent. There was a debate going on, that after a human reaches a certain age they can never truly pick up language. Naturally linguist's and scientist's alike jumped on the opportunity, to test this theory on Genie.

For the first few years of the experiment, she was very loved and taken care of by the scientist's but once her progress started to slow down, most of the scientist grew tired of her. Once funding stopped and the results of the experiment were found inconclusive, the family taking care of her, sent her back to her mother. Her mother could't provide her the care, Genie needed for her special needs and she ended up being sent to a mental hospital. To spend the rest of her day's.
It thoroughly disgusted me, how they exploited Nim, for their own selfish needs, but it doesn't surprise me, when they did the exact same thing to a human child.

If you want to watch the documentary about Genie's life you can see it on the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmdycJQi4QA ( sorry i don't know how to make links clickable).