The girl in the window

St. Petersburg Times by Lane DeGregory | Dec. 7, 2008 (Investigative Report)

"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." Full Story »

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Subjects: World, U.S.
Topics: Poverty
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Posted by: Posted by Margarita Persico - Dec 7, 2008 - 4:12 PM PST
Reviewed by: Margarita Persico (review), Elisa Oreglia (review)
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Edited by: Margarita Persico - Dec 7, 2008 - 4:12 PM PST

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Margarita Persico
3.9
 by Margarita Persico - Dec. 7, 2008

This is a well written, researched and organized investigative story about child abuse.

" The authorities had discovered the rarest and most pitiable of creatures: a feral child." More »

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Elisa Oreglia
3.6
 by Elisa Oreglia - Dec. 8, 2008
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