• The girl in the window (July 31, 2008)
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• Video
• Everyone wants to help 'The Girl in the Window' (August 10, 2008)
• Purchase the complete series in electronic format.
• Judge cuts probation short for mother of feral child (Oct 12, 2009)

• Doreen: "Unbelievable! How many other children are out there like this? God Bless her adoptive parents." more comments

• Child Abuse Council
  If you think a child is being neglected or abused, call the anonymous hotline: 1-800-962-2873.
• Crisis Center of Tampa Bay
  If you need help taking care of your child, call the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay: 211.

Three years later, "The Girl in the Window" learns to connect

• Photo gallery: Danielle Lierow lives on a small farm in Tennessee
• All Eyes: Then and now
  (August 21, 2011)
• About this story
  The St. Petersburg Times first told Danielle Lierow's story three years ago. "The Girl in the Window" remains the most popular story in the history of tampabay.com, with 1.3 million page views since its publication in August 2008. Staff writer Lane DeGregory won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for the story.
  

• Tampa Bay Heart Gallery Hillsborough County
  (813) 229-2884
• Heart Gallery Pinellas/Pasco County
  (727) 456-0637
• The Sylvia Thomas Center
  To provide respite child care in Hillsborough County for foster/adoptive families and other child related support.
  (813) 651-3150
• Project Patchwork
  If you can't adopt, but want to help foster children in Pinellas/Pasco County. (727) 824-0863

• Dani's story
  A fund has been established by the Lierow family to support Dani's therapy and long term care.
• NOVA: Secret of the Wild child

Saved from squalor:
Inside the case of a feral child
Mother of feral girl:
'I love that baby, she's my life'

Looking Through 'The Girl in the Window'

Dani's stirring story carried us from tragedy to hope

Humanity triumphs

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