consisting of local police officers, rescue workers and representatives from social services entered the property, expecting a rescue operation.
Instead, they found themselves facing a much more complex situation.
The children were physically alive, but they had grown up in an environment completely separate from normal society.
They were unaware of basic things that other children knew.
They did not understand ordinary conversations.
Few would have imagined that America would one day have sunk into a terrible Great Depression…
They reacted differently to foreigners.
They communicated primarily through gestures and sounds.
The social worker in charge of the case was Margaret Dunn, a seasoned child protection professional who had spent sixteen years working with neglected and abandoned children.
She had already dealt with difficult cases.
She had seen poverty.
She had seen families in difficulty.
She had seen children who had endured terrible circumstances.
But she later
