A woman who disappeared in the jungles of northeastern Cambodia as a child has apparently been found after living in the wild for 19 years, police and a man claiming to be her father said on Thursday. The woman believed to be Rochom P'ngieng, who would now be 27 years old cannot speak any intelligible language, so details of her saga have been difficult to confirm. "When I saw her, she was naked and walking in a bending-forward position like a monkey... She was bare-bones skinny," said 45-year-old Sal Lou, who says he is her father. "She was shaking and picking up grains of rice from the ground to eat. Her eyes were red like tigers' eyes." Rochom P'ngieng, then 8 years old, disappeared in 1988 when she was herding buffalo in a remote jungle area, said Chea Bunthoeun, a deputy provincial police chief.

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