This is the first picture of the Cambodian jungle girlwho was found last week 18 years after she went missing as a little girl.
Filthy and naked when she was discovered, with long matted hair and a furtive, hunted expression, she was caught stealing food left under a tree by a villager.
Yet despite the fact that she is only able to speak three words — father, mother and stomach ache — she has been identified as Ro Cham H’pnhieng, 27.
Her father Ksor Lou had not seen her since she was eight,but says he recognised her instantly from a childhood scar. He had thought his daughter had been killed by wild animals after she disappeared herding buffalo in 1989.
But Ro Cham is finding it hard to adjust to life with other humans. “She prefers to crawl rather than walk like a human,” said Mao Sun, a district police chief in the north-eastern province of Rattanakiri, where the girl’s family live.
“Unfortunately, she keeps crying and wants to go back to the jungle,” he said. “She is not used to living with humans. We had to clothe her. When she is thirsty or hungry she points at her mouth.”
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