The devastating story of 'feral child' Genie Wiley whose father tied her up and locked her in a room until the age of 13 - and the scientific tug of war which broke out upon her discovery ⊖⊖

Strapped into a crude homemade straitjacket and tied to a child's potty, Genie Wiley knew nothing outside the darkness of her sparsely furnished bedroom until she turned thirteen.