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Chapman states that when she was approximately four years old, she was taken from her village (whose name she was too young to have learned), and then released for a reason she did not understand. She spent the next several years following capuchin monkeys, until hunters rescued her — by which point she had no human language. According to Chapman, she later was sold to a brothel in Cúcuta, then lived on the streets, and then became a slave of a mafia family.
A neighbour, Maruja, rescued her from her predicament.
This family had connections to the city of Bradford through the textile industry. She had lived in Bradford since about 1983.
Her daughter, Vanessa, was involved in creating the book She currently lives in Bradford, Yorkshire, England.
National Geographic created the documentary Woman Raised By Monkeys.
lieutenant was scheduled to premiere on Thursday 12 December 2013. Carlos Conde, a professor in Colombia, stated that he did a test using pictures of Chapman"s adopted family and capuchin monkeys that strongly suggested that Chapman was telling the truth. A University of London psychology professor, Christopher French, argued that Chapman may be affected by false memories.
