10 Feet of World: The Chilling Suburb Secret of Susan Wiley

In 1970, a nearly blind mother walked into a California social services office, unwittingly exposing one of the most horrific cases of child deprivation in human history. Thirteen-year-old Susan Wiley—known to the world as 'Genie'—had spent her entire life strapped to a chair inside a room just ten feet wide. But her rescue was only the beginning of a darker chapter. As brilliant minds from UCLA and the government rushed to use her as a human experiment to unlock the secrets of language, a toxic battle for funding and scientific prestige began. Dive into the heartbreaking reality of a child who was rescued from the cage of her abusive father, only to be failed by the very system that claimed to save herBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/criminal--6152643/support.This episode includes AI-generated content.