Re: "The Girl in the Window"

On Aug 29, 10:48 pm, "Chocolic" <chatter...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"earthage" <earthage2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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Long but worth reading.  And it happened where else, but Florida.

http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/article750838.ece
The girl in the window
By Lane DeGregory,
St. Petersburg Times Staff Writer
Posted: Jul 31, 2008 04:35 PM

Excerpt:

The family had lived in the rundown rental house for almost three
years when someone first saw a child's face in the window.

A little girl, pale, with dark eyes, lifted a dirty blanket above the
broken glass and peered out, one neighbor remembered.

Everyone knew a woman lived in the house with her boyfriend and two
adult sons. But they had never seen a child there, had never noticed
anyone playing in the overgrown yard.

The girl looked young, 5 or 6, and thin. Too thin. Her cheeks seemed
sunken; her eyes were lost.

The child stared into the square of sunlight, then slipped away.

Months went by. The face never reappeared.

Just before noon on July 13, 2005, a Plant City police car pulled up
outside that shattered window. Two officers went into the house — and
one stumbled back out.

For morehttp://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/article750838.ece

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Wow.  What a sad, yet an interesting story.  I hope there are updates on her
progress.  She looks like an angel.
I do wonder about their son, William, if he might eventually be resentful of
her attention.  He's still a kid too, and has had to give up his bedroom for
the laundry room.  That part doesn't seem really fair.  Although when you
think about what poor Dani has gone thru, maybe William doesn't mind the
sacrifice.  But he is just a kid.

The little girl sounds a lot like she has Angleman's Syndrome.  I had a
nephew (deceased now) that we seriously suspect had that and when I was
reading about Danielle's story, she seemed to have displayed the same
symptoms.   Her symptoms may be situational, but they sure rang familiar.

Chocolic

Here, too. I've had limited contact with the symptoms (my daughter
and her husband give respite care to families with challenged
children)....
and Danielle's symptoms *do* sound exactly like a boy they care for
once in awhile, who is autistic. The flapping hands, the
tiptoes.....

But the mother. Remember the IQ measured at 77? There are
hundreds of thousands of people like this, absolutely incapable of
taking care of themselves OR their own children. At what point are
we another's keeper.....when it reaches Danielle's level?

Kris
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