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20 months after genie was born her father locked her up in one of the family bedrooms because her father believed she was mentally retarded.
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The week before Genie was found, the movie "the wild child" came out, helped the scientist and psychologist draw conclusions from such a rare case study.
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Genie was found in the room of her house by a social worker
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From when she was found until this date, she had learned about 100 words
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After several years of conducting experiments on Genie and trying to understand her case study and her behavior, the NIMH stopped funding this research because of the lack of scientific findings.
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The government stopped funding this study because it was wasting to much money.
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after her mother realized she was too much work to take care of Genies mother once again gave her up and she had to again go through a series of foster homes.
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An anonymous individual hired a private investigator to track her down, and when found, they described her as "happy".
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Today Genie is part of an adult foster care home somewhere in southern California.