Post by daisy on Mar 28, 2006 7:30:36 GMT -5
aid workers retrain man raised as chicken
social workers in fiji are trying to rehabilitate a 32-year-old man they say was raised by chickens.
the man was locked in a chicken coop as a child for years by his grandfather after his parents died, nbc reported.
after escaping from the coop, the man was taken to a local hospital.
no one knew how to treat him, so hospital workers locked him in a room and tied him to his bed for more than 20 years.
now, doctors are trying to treat the man. they say he has no mental defects and agree his condition is from years of abuse and neglect.
he had imitated or imprinted with the chicken, clayton said. he was perching, he was picking at his food, he was hopping around like a chicken. he'd keep his hands in a chickenlike fashion, and he'd make a noise, which was like the calling of a chicken, which he still has."
clayton took over kumar's care and he has reportedly made "remarkable progress," learning to walk and speak like a human.
www.nbc5.com/news/3510370/detail.html
social workers in fiji are trying to rehabilitate a 32-year-old man they say was raised by chickens.
the man was locked in a chicken coop as a child for years by his grandfather after his parents died, nbc reported.
after escaping from the coop, the man was taken to a local hospital.
no one knew how to treat him, so hospital workers locked him in a room and tied him to his bed for more than 20 years.
now, doctors are trying to treat the man. they say he has no mental defects and agree his condition is from years of abuse and neglect.
he had imitated or imprinted with the chicken, clayton said. he was perching, he was picking at his food, he was hopping around like a chicken. he'd keep his hands in a chickenlike fashion, and he'd make a noise, which was like the calling of a chicken, which he still has."
clayton took over kumar's care and he has reportedly made "remarkable progress," learning to walk and speak like a human.
www.nbc5.com/news/3510370/detail.html