She is said to be a wild child because she was raised by a pack of dogs. This is the case of Oxana, the orphan who surprises science with her life story.
Oxana Malaya was born in 1983, in the town of Novaya Blagoveschenka, located in Ukraine. It is said that the little girl grew up in a large family with alcoholic parents, according to her own account, her mother beat her.
However, psychologists, anthropologists, among other experts have studied the case in depth. In order to really know what happened to oxana.
Irresponsible parents or a neglectful orphanage?
In an interview with Oxana herself in an Australian program called “60 minutes”, it was revealed that the girl was abandoned. When she was only 3 years old, her parents left her away from home after a heated argument, in the middle of the night.
To protect herself from the cold, Oxana got into the kennel of the dogs, who instead of attacking or harming her, they took care of her. “I spoke to them, they barked and I imitated them. It was our way of communicating,” the young woman recalled.
Some years later, a neighbor warned the authorities about the case. When they rescued her, Oxana was already 8 years old and behaved like a dog. She barked, walked on all fours, and barely knew how to pronounce a few words.
Poor care in an orphanage
On the other hand, anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota noted certain inconsistencies in the story. She when she traveled to the Ukraine to record a documentary about the wild girl, entitled Feral Children/Raised Wildwhich was broadcast on Animal Planet.
She researched as much as she could about Oxana’s life, coming to know that the girl grew up in a soviet orphanage. He entered the institute when he was one year old, but the place did not have the conditions or the resources to meet the needs of the large number of orphans there were.
The lack of attention, care and affection, was what made Oxana look for company in dogs savages who also lived in the institution. He spent a good part of both his childhood and adolescence in this situation.
This caused development problems
Although she was admitted to the Baraboy clinic to recover, Oxana had a hard time reaching an adequate development. In this sense, despite his biological age of more than 20 years, she is only six years old mentally.
She learned to walk upright, to communicate with human beings, although with a different tone of voice than usual, to live together, but she still has certain canine attitudes. Not able to maintain long relationshipsis somewhat uncoordinated, her steps are strong, she usually squints her eyes intermittently and hides the objects that are given to her.
How has Oxana’s life been after her recovery?
Currently, what is known about Oxana is that she is in the Baraboy clinic. This is because outside the place the girl has no protection and their social skills are not well developed.
In 2006, she met her father and stepsister, who visited her at the clinic. She thanked them for coming, since I really wanted to meet your family. There is no information about his mother.
Without a doubt, this is an unbelievable but true story. Many specialists were surprised and were interested in knowing more about her, that is why we know Oxana today.