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   Rescued 8-year-old Thai boy raised among   
   04 Jul 25 22:53:10   
   
   From: invalide@invalid.invalid   
      
   Not a case of a feral child but...   
      
   https://gulfnews.com/world/offbeat/rescued-8-year-old-thai-boy-r   
   ised-among-dogs-only-communicates-by-barking-1.500185511   
      
   An eight-year-old boy from Thailand’s Laplae   
   district has been rescued from a drug-ridden home   
   where he was raised in near-total isolation and   
   learned to communicate only by barking.   
      
   Authorities found the boy living in squalor,   
   surrounded by six dogs, after a school principal   
   and local activists raised the alarm, according   
   to a report in Thaiger.   
      
   The child, referred to as “Boy A” for legal   
   reasons, had not attended school for over two   
   years. His mother, a drug addict, reportedly left   
   him alone for hours each day in a dilapidated   
   wooden house while she roamed the neighbourhood   
   begging for food.   
      
   With no friends, no adult supervision, and only   
   the dogs for company, the boy began mimicking   
   their behaviour — communicating by barking   
   instead of speaking.   
      
   “He didn’t speak, he just barked,” said Pawina   
   Hongsakul, head of the Pawina Hongsakul Foundation   
   for Children and Women, which led the rescue   
   operation on June 30.   
   ...   
      
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