Here is what I am referring to. Amongst the podcasts I follow, only 99% Invisible or Hidden Brain could have done a story on this but none of them have.
Thanks in advance.

The young girl seen in this 1970 photo is Genie Wiley of California, otherwise known as the "feral child," barely able to walk at age 13.

For her entire life, her father had abused her viciously, keeping her in a makeshift straitjacket and tying her to a children's toilet in a locked room all day. When she made any sound or did anything he didn't like, he'd growl and bare his teeth at her like a dog.

Under such brutal conditions, Wiley never learned how to walk or speak. When this creepy photo was taken at a hospital just after she was rescued, her life inside a series of abusive institutions was only beginning. Her whereabouts today are unknown.

I think it would be great for you to narrate the story of “Genie.” It’s a case I actually learned about in my college developmental psychology class. Genie is the pseudonym name for a girl born in 1957. From the age of 20 months until she was 13 years old, she suffered extremely severe neglect and abuse. She was kept totally isolated and chained to a toilet or crib wearing nothing except a diaper. Her father was very domineering and violent, and he did not allow anyone to talk to Genie, or even talk around her, so in addition to neglect and abuse, she was deprived of language. When Genie came to the attention of Los Angeles child protective services, she immediately began receiving medical and psychological treatment. She was very malnourished, incontinent, unable to chew solid food, unable to speak, and could barely walk. Although she made some progress with treatment, she never developed anything more than basic language. Of course there is a lot more to the story, but I leave it to you to research and hopefully narrate the story. I think it’s perfect for your channel. Thank you!

I am referring to this case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child)

Very infamous and tragic situation for the girl, and not just due to the isolation she was condemned to during her formative years, but the seemingly callous and downright bewildering way she was treated after funding for studying her ran out and she was left to suffer further abuses in various foster homes, wiping out much of the progress she had previously made.

I'm not a scientist, but I often wonder about cases like this and whether the way this case was handled would still be considered "normal" in the current day and age. I wonder how things would have been handled had it taken place in the 2010s instead of the '70s. I wonder if things could have turned out differently for the girl.

And I wonder what modern scientists think of cases like this. Has our sense of ethics in studies of vulnerable humans and other primates shifted at all since then? I mean, I assume so, but I'd just like to hear what folks think. I find the case of "Genie" to be simultaneously fascinating, horrifying, and depressing.

I flaired this post as a 'General Discussion' but it could also be a 'What if' post, as in 'What if Genie were discovered in her infamous state not in 1970 but 2020'?

Starved, tortured, forgotten: Genie, the feral child who left a mark on researchers

With Genie approaching her 60th birthday, her fate remains an enigma.

With Genie approaching her 60th birthday, her fate remains an enigma. Photograph: Screengrab

More than four decades after she appeared in a Los Angeles County welfare office, her fate is unclear – but she has changed the lives of those who knew her.

She hobbled into a Los Angeles county welfare office in October 1970, a stooped, withered waif with a curious way of holding up her hands, like a rabbit. She looked about six or seven. Her mother, stricken with cataracts, was seeking an office with services for the blind and had entered the wrong room.

But the girl transfixed welfare officers.

At first they assumed autism. Then they discovered she could not talk. She was incontinent and salivated and spat. She had two nearly complete sets of teeth - extra teeth in such cases are known as supernumeraries, a rare dental condition. She could barely chew or swallow, and could not fully focus her eyes or extend her limbs. She weighed just 59lb (26kg). And she was, it turned out, 13 years old.

Her name – the name given to protect her identity – was Genie. Her deranged father had strapped her into a handmade straitjacket and tied her to a chair in a silent room of a suburban house since she was a toddler. He had forbidden her to cry, speak or make noise and had beaten and growled at her, like a dog.

It made news as one of the US’s worst cases of child abuse. How, asked Walter Cronkite, could a quiet residential street, Golden West Avenue, in Temple City, a sleepy Californian town, produce a feral child – a child so bereft of human touch she evoked cases like the wolf child of Hesse in the 14th century, the bear child of Lithuania in 1661 and Victor of Aveyron, a boy reared in the forests of revolutionary France?

Over time, Genie slipped from headlines – Vietnam was burning, the Beatles were in the midst of breaking up – but she retained the attention of scientists, especially linguists. She was a prize specimen for having grown up without language or social training. Could she now learn language?

Jostling for access, they took brain scans and audio recordings, performed countless tests, compiled reams of data, published papers. And gradually they, too, with a few exceptions,

Apparently, she's still alive.