A “jungle woman” discovered naked scavenging by a farmer in Cambodia nine years ago was reunited with her father in Vietnam on Saturday, her adoptive family said. In 2007, the farmer found the woman covered in dirt, crouched like a monkey and searching the ground for bits of dried rice. She was taken in by a Cambodian family who identified her as Rochom P’ngieng, a girl who disappeared in 1989 while herding water buffalo in a northeastern province bordering Vietnam that is home to some of Cambodia’s wildest jungle areas. She was thought to have lived in the jungle for about 18 years. But nearly a decade later, a 70-year-old Vietnamese man named Peo claimed to be her real father, saying his daughter disappeared in 2006 – just a year before she was found – and had a history of mental health problems. In a letter to her adoptive Cambodian family last month, Peo said he recognized his daughter, named Tak, after seeing recent photos on Facebook. Rochom Khamphy, a member of her adoptive Cambodian family, told AFP she was returned to the Vietnamese man on Saturday morning after authorities recognized his paternity claim. “We returned her to his Vietnamese father. Both my family and Vietnamese relatives cried when they saw their reunion,” he said, adding the family believed Peo was her biological father. “We will miss her,” Rochom Khamphy told AFP, adding the woman had left his family no belongings, only “the clothes she was wearing.” The Vietnamese father has agreed to pay the adoptive family $1,500 to care for his daughter.