A happy end to the strange tale of the Ratanakkiri "jungle girl" who was found wandering in the jungle a decade ago ?

Rocham P’nhieng (second right), now known as Tak, stands with her Vietnamese family on Saturday in Ratanakkiri province before departing for Vietnam. Adhoc

‘Jungle girl’ returns to family in Vietnam
Mon, 15 August 2016
Phak Seangly and Erin Handley

The “jungle girl” discovered in a Ratanakkiri forest almost a decade ago has farewelled her Cambodian home and returned to her long-lost family in Vietnam.

Tak, formerly known as P’hnieng, made headlines when she was found in 2007 with no intelligible language and was claimed by a Cambodian family, who believed she was their child who went missing in 1989.

But five Vietnamese family members, including her father Pel, 70, came forward and claimed her as their own after they saw stories about her on social media.http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/j ... ly-vietnam


Ratanakkiri ‘jungle girl’ claimed by another family
Mon, 1 August 2016
Phak Seangly
The decade-old mystery surrounding “jungle girl” Rochom P’nhieng has taken yet another turn, with a family from Vietnam coming forward to claim her as their long-lost daughter.

P’nhieng captured international headlines when she was discovered wandering naked in a Ratanakkiri forest in 2007. She was taken in by a family in Un village who identified her as their daughter, claiming that she went missing while herding buffalo at the age of 9 or 10 in 1989 and was believed to have roamed the jungle for some 18 years.

However, a man named Pel, 70, from Gia Lai province in Vietnam, visited P’nhieng’s Cambodian custodians last Wednesday and Saturday, claiming that the woman was his long-lost daughter. Pel told P’nhieng’s purported Cambodian brother, Rochom Khamphy, the woman was not called P’nhieng but Tak and that she had disappeared in 2006 at the age of 23 after having a mental breakdown.
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