'Half-Animal' Woman Found In Cambodian Jungle

[matcom]

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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.

She was discovered this month after a villager noticed that food disappeared from a lunch box he left at a site near his farm.

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/070118/K011802AU.html

[bridgit]

1. what a world...

[KG]

2. i'd hit it.

[underpants]

5. HEY!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x6074127

[Taverner]

3. No doubt the ongoing civil war didn't help things...

[begin_within]

4. Well, there's Mel Gibson's next movie.

[Deep13]

6. "She's weird. She sleeps during the day and stays up at night."

So would I if I didn't have to work.

[Hugin]

8. My kid does that...

But, she was raised by her peers.

[Hugin]

7. Eight years old and already herding buffalo...

*sigh* They grow so fast.

[matcom]

9. .....

:spray:

you owe my boss a new keyboard

[Hugin]

10. Have your boss send a bill to...

Attn: Finance Director
Canadian Navy
Up-North, Canada

They'll get right on it... ;)