Thread: Jungle woman Rochom P'ngieng wants to return to the wild

Originally Posted by Sdigit

Sounds like she was doing a number on you, I cant see how an adult can lose a mother tounge.

Yes, you can - quite easily, actually.

If she had more time than a 20 minute phone call, the language patterns might have started to come back to her, but at this particular moment, not having spoken this dialect exclusively for so long, it was not accessible to her. Happens to whenever I find myself not speaking one of the languages I speak for a considerable period of time - I encounter someone, try to speak, and find myself missing words and how to construct the sentence properly. After 20-30 minutes of stuttering about, it starts to come back.

It's not unusual.

Originally Posted by Mid

nearly 960 miles (600 kilometers) northeast of Phnom Penh.

When did a mile become shorter than a kilometer?

Originally Posted by DaffyDuck

Happens to whenever I find myself not speaking one of the languages I speak for a considerable period of time - I encounter someone, try to speak, and find myself missing words and how to construct the sentence properly. After 20-30 minutes of stuttering about, it starts to come back.

Me good man no same same British... me not drink beer and no like football... me like take you Kho Chang khrap.. you not work bar I pay naa.

Probable scenario: Jungle family has a child with a mental deficiency. The local treatment for such disorders is to tie the afflicted person up. Although a quickfix, over time it exacerbates the problem as the subject loses all coping and social skills. It is not an uncommon occurrence either. There have been a few stories of children being chained up. The most recent notable cases were the foster kids in New Jersey, USA. The boy was 18 years old but due to malnutrition had the body size of a 12 year old. Another case was the 17 year old in the Bay area of Cali.

‘Jungle girl’ is located
Mom Kunthear
Monday, 07 June 2010

THE saga of Cambodia’s “jungle girl” took another dramatic turn Friday when the Ratanakkiri runaway was reportedly discovered at the bottom of a 10-metre-deep dugout toilet.

Sal Lou, who says he is the father of “jungle girl” Rochom P’nhieng, said his daughter had been discovered on Friday evening by a young neighbour who went to use the outdoor toilet and heard a cry for help from within.

Sal Lou and other villagers were summoned to the scene, where they shone torches into the hole and discovered Rochom P’nhieng at the bottom.

“The villagers pulled my daughter out of the toilet, and we cleaned her up, but now she looks pale and weak,” Sal Lou said.

Rochom P’nhieng, believed to be 29 years old, was discovered in the wilds of Ratanakkiri province in January 2007 and taken in by a family who say she is a daughter who went missing in 1989 while herding buffalo.

Family members said she had since lived peacefully with them until last month, when she took off her clothes and fled back into the jungle.

Since being rescued from the toilet, Sal Lou said his daughter appeared to be in poor health.

“She looks pale and has no strength. She has been sleeping all the time in a hammock under the house,” Sal Lou said.

A local doctor, he added, had attempted to give Rochom P’nhieng an IV drip to help replenish her strength, but she tore it out and refused other medicine and injections.

Hing Phan Sakunthea, director of the Ratanakkiri provincial referral hospital, said that although Rochom P’nhieng’s time in the toilet could result in minor skin irritation, it is unlikely to affect her health in the long term.

“She looked pale at first, but she will be fine in a few days,” he said. “She was stuck in that deep toilet without enough oxygen, so that’s why she looked so pale.”

Sal Lou said Sunday that he plans to stay home with Rochom P’Nhieng from now on in order to prevent her from escaping again.

“I don’t know what I can do to stop her from leaving,” he said.

But Chhay Thy, a provincial investigator for the local rights group Adhoc, said Rochom P’nhieng’s family may be incapable of caring for someone with her mental and emotional problems.

“She has fled the house three times already since she came back from the forest,” he said.

phnompenhpost.com

Bloody hell. What a horrid life.

Makes you realize that your own problems are nothing compared to others

Surprised she's not had to fill out a tax return before she's allowed back into the jungle!

Sounds like they're all jungle people tbh.

Jungle girl goes into training
Mom Kunthear and Vong Sokheng
Thursday, 09 September 2010

Jungle girl sits in a hammock
Photo by: Douglas Long

CAMBODIA’s “jungle girl” is receiving life skills training from an NGO in her native Ratanakkiri province as she works to reintegrate into society, her purported father said yesterday.

Local residents say Rochom P’nhieng, believed to be 30 years old, spent 18 years living in the wilds of Ratanakkiri after going missing in 1989 while herding buffalo.

After being discovered in the jungle in January of 2007, she was taken in by the family of Sal Lou, from O’Yadav district, who claimed her as his long-lost daughter.

While Rochom P’nhieng was said to have made progress in the years following her return to civilisation, helping out around the house and learning a few words of Khmer and Phnong, a local language, she fled her home briefly in May in an attempt to return to the jungle.

She was later discovered stranded in a 10-metre dugout toilet, and Sal Lou said her efforts at reintegration had been largely stunted since then.

“I hope that she can be reintegrated in our community and learn the language,” Sal Lou said.

“I have no time to teach her, so I am happy she is working with an NGO”.

phnompenhpost.com

Originally Posted by Mid

She was later discovered stranded in a 10-metre dugout toilet, and Sal Lou said her efforts at reintegration had been largely stunted since then

I can fully understand her problem as life's a shit sometimes!