# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/genie
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:04:24.937Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/genie"
name: "Genie"
slug: "genie"
description: "Genie is the pseudonym of an American feral child who was a victim of severe abuse, neglect, and social isolation. Her circumstances are prominently recorded in the annals of linguistics and abnormal child psychology. When she was approximately 20 months old, her father began keeping her in a locked room. During this period, he almost always strapped her to a child's toilet or bound her in a crib with her arms and legs immobilized, forbade anyone to interact with her, provided her with almost no stimulation of any kind, and left her severely malnourished. The extent of her isolation prevented her from being exposed to any significant amount of speech, and as a result she did not acquire language during her childhood. Her abuse came to the attention of Los Angeles County child welfare authorities in November 1970, when she was 13 years and 7 months old, after which she became a ward of the state of California."
tagline: "Abused child studied by linguists after spending most of early life locked in a room and tied to a chair"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Genie_immediately_after_rescue.jpg/330px-Genie_immediately_after_rescue.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1957-04-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           60.44
  momentum:             1.971357667252611
  historical:           24.49241733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%96_(%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0)"
    title: "Джині (покинута дитина)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(wilde_kind)"
    title: "Genie (wilde kind)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A_(%D8%B7%D9%81%D9%84%D8%A9_%D9%85%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%AD%D8%B4%D8%A9)"
    title: "جيني (طفلة متوحشة)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie"
    title: "Genie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%86%DB%8C_(%D9%85%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%B5%DB%8E%DA%A9%DB%8C_%DA%A9%DB%8E%D9%88%DB%8C)"
    title: "جنی (منداڵێکی کێوی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie"
    title: "Genie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(Wolfskind)"
    title: "Genie (Wolfskind)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%B6%CE%AF%CE%BD%CE%B9_(%CE%AC%CE%B3%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%BF_%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%B4%CE%AF)"
    title: "Τζίνι (άγριο παιδί)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child)"
    title: "Genie (feral child)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie"
    title: "Genie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie"
    title: "Genie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C_(%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%AF%DA%A9_%D9%88%D8%AD%D8%B4%DB%8C)"
    title: "جینی (کودک وحشی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie"
    title: "Genie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie"
    title: "Genie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%99_(%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%93%D7%AA_%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%90)"
    title: "ג'יני (ילדת פרא)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8B%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%AB_(%D5%BE%D5%A1%D5%B5%D6%80%D5%A5%D5%B6%D5%A1%D6%81%D5%A1%D5%AE_%D5%A1%D5%B2%D5%BB%D5%AB%D5%AF)"
    title: "Ջինի (վայրենացած աղջիկ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(ragazza_selvaggia)"
    title: "Genie (ragazza selvaggia)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC_(%E9%9A%94%E9%9B%A2%E5%85%90)"
    title: "ジーニー (隔離児)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A7%80%EB%8B%88_(%EC%95%BC%EC%83%9D%EC%95%84)"
    title: "지니 (야생아)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(wolfskind)"
    title: "Genie (wolfskind)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(dzikie_dziecko)"
    title: "Genie (dzikie dziecko)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(crian%C3%A7a_selvagem)"
    title: "Genie (criança selvagem)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8_(%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B1%D1%91%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BA)"
    title: "Джини (одичавший ребёнок)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(barn)"
    title: "Genie (barn)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B5_(%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%94%E0%B9%87%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%9B%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%B2%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%96%E0%B8%B7%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%99)"
    title: "จินี (เด็กป่าเถื่อน)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q237068"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump