Child Abuse Part 28: Genie

Human Monsters

Morgan Rector & Glassbox Media

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

3.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

By incarcerating his daughter for the first 13 years of her life with no clothing or stimuli of any kind, Clark Wiley thought he was doing her a favour by protecting her from the evils of the world. He only succeeded in denying her the fundamental human right to thrive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Glassbox Media Podcast.
0:06.0	It's 2011 and the Arab Spring is raging.
0:10.0	A lesbian activist in Syria starts a blog.
0:14.0	She names it Gay Girl in Damascus.
0:18.0	Am I crazy? Maybe.
0:20.0	As her profile grows, so does the danger.
0:24.0	The object of the email was please read this while sitting down.
0:28.0	It's like a genie came out of the bottle and you can't put it back.
0:32.0	Gay Girl gone, available now.
0:58.0	Welcome to Human Monsters.
1:12.0	November 17, 1970.
1:16.0	A headline on the cover of a Los Angeles Times read,
1:20.0	Girl 13.
1:22.0	Prisoner since infancy.
1:24.0	Deputies charge parents jailed.
1:28.0	The following day there was a similar related headline regarding this case.
1:34.0	Mystery shrouds home of child prisoner.
1:38.0	Even without the ghastly details, the story was potent in its ability to shock residents of Los Angeles and elsewhere.
1:48.0	The father and teenage brother were photographed and very visible to the public.
1:54.0	Later that week, the girl in question was photographed.
1:58.0	Though she looked directly into the camera's lens, she was not posing.
2:04.0	She didn't know people said cheese when photographed.
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