Dad who claims he adopted violent grownup ‘masquerading’ as 6-year-old breaks down over ‘abuse’
A household in Indiana that adopted a younger lady from Ukraine however later alleged she was an “grownup masquerading as a baby with intent to hurt their household” are talking out concerning the ordeal 13 years later.
“We have been all abused,” father Michael Barnett screams within the trailer for an upcoming documentary on Investigation Discovery. “I hate this.”
Michael Barnett and his then-wife, Kristine Barnett, adopted in April 2010 somebody whom they believed to be a 6-year-old lady named Natalia, who suffers from a uncommon type of dwarfism known as spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita.
However the household quickly questioned her age after coping with allegedly violent conduct.
“She tried to poison and kill my spouse,” Michael Barnett mentioned within the trailer for the documentary, “The Curious Case Of Natalia Grace.”
“One night time, I opened my eyes and Natalia is standing on the foot of the mattress with a knife in her hand.”
In 2012, the dad and mom petitioned a courtroom to legally change Natalia’s delivery 12 months from 2003 to 1989, which was granted and altered her age from 8 years previous to 22.
The household then moved to Canada with their organic kids, the place their oldest son was slated to start out school.
The dad and mom of the alleged lady landed in sizzling water in 2013 when it was found Natalia was residing alone in an condominium in Lafayette, Indiana, resulting in an investigation and their arrests.
In 2019, the couple, who’ve since divorced, have been charged with neglect of a dependent.
“The media is portray me to be a baby abuser, however there is no such thing as a youngster right here,” Kristine Barnett informed the Every day Mail in 2019.
“Natalia was a girl. She had durations. She had grownup enamel,” she added within the interview.
“She by no means grew a single inch, which might occur even with a baby with dwarfism.
The docs all confirmed she was struggling a extreme psychological sickness solely identified in adults.”
Michael Barnett was in the end discovered not responsible by a jury in 2022, and Kristine Barnett had all of her fees dismissed in March of this 12 months.
Each dad and mom had beforehand spoken out that the fees have been bogus, citing Natalia was an grownup and never a uncared for youngster.
The documentary, a three-part sequence that may kick off on Might 29 on Investigation Discovery throughout three consecutive nights, will characteristic “bombshell interviews with members of Natalia’s adoptive household,” equivalent to Michael Barnett and his son, Jacob Barnett, in addition to authorized consultants, associates and neighbors, in keeping with a press launch from Investigation Discovery.