The Little Girl Found Living Like An Animal

The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast

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Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Original Airdate: March 3, 2009 Oprah explores the stories of four young children who were abused. At age 6, Danielle could not speak a word. After years of abuse Danielle was eventually rescued. She was adopted by Bernie and Diane Lierow. In March 2008, a Honduran boy, Jason, was rescued from a small, dark room where he was kept for years. At just 15 pounds, he was the size of an average 2-year-old, but shockingly, he was 9 years old. In 1997, Texas authorities discovered 9-year-old, Victoria, living in squalor. She couldn't speak or make eye contact. Oksana Malaya from Ukraine was thrown out of the house by her parents when she was just three years old and lived in the family's dog kennel for five years before being rescued. Want more podcasts from OWN? Visit https://bit.ly/OWNPods You can also watch Oprah’s Super Soul, The Oprah Winfrey Show and more of your favorite OWN shows on your TV! Visit https://bit.ly/find_OWN

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0:00.0	Through 25 seasons, 4,561 episodes.
0:06.4	I believe the Oprah Winfrey Show was one of the greatest classrooms in the world.
0:10.2	I really never thought of it that way.
0:12.2	The aha moments, the breakthroughs, the LOLs, the connections, the occasional ugly cry.
0:20.1	I'm missing so terribly, I'm missing every single minute.
0:23.7	The moments that mattered, the eye-opening light lessons, never allow them to take
0:29.9	you somewhere else.
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0:40.5	Every single person you ever will meet shares that common desire.
0:45.2	They want to know, do you see me?
0:48.0	Do you hear me?
0:49.0	Does what I say mean anything to you?
0:52.9	You are listening to the Oprah Winfrey Show, the podcast.
0:59.6	What happens to a child who grows up with virtually no contact with other human beings,
1:06.2	no parenting, no love, no affection, no touching?
1:11.4	Nearly everything we learn about being human, how to speak, how to walk, everything comes
1:17.7	from the people who raise us.
1:20.2	And today we're going to look at what happens when nobody does.
1:24.0	Experts say that we can learn a lot about our own humanity by studying children who
1:29.5	have been robbed of theirs.
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