Later, Kristine found a pink bicycle by her Natalia's house and a little dress in her wardrobe she became concerned that Natalia was repeating the process: duping another family into caring for a child that was really an adult.Īccording to the Lafayette Journal & Courier, there was another couple that wanted guardianship of Natalia. In her interview, she claimed that once the family had moved to Canada, Natalia vanished. They were arrested, released on bail and appeared for a hearing in court in September this year.įor her part, Kristine has said she didn’t abandon anyone. Police started looking for the Barnetts, who were later charged with two counts of felony neglect of a dependent. The story gets more complicated from here.Īccording to NBC News, Natalia told police in 2014 that she had been left by her family, living alone in a rented apartment. (As they deny providing financial help beyond paying her rent, though, it’s still unclear how she managed alone, either way.) The authorities landed on the former.
If you believe she’s a child, they abandoned a three-foot tall little girl whose dwarfism means she needs help walking if she’s an adult, they helped her rent an apartment, which is what they claim and moved away. Not, as might be expected from their claims, to escape the threats of violence, but to put one of their sons in a special school. Then, in 2013, the family rented Natalia an apartment and moved to Canada without her. In 2012, the family legally changed Natalia’s age to 22 on official documents, her year of birth changing from 2003 to 1989. It gets worse: Kristine found her putting bleach in her coffee and Natalia once dragged her towards an electric fence. She started jumping out of moving cars and smearing blood on mirrors. She would stand over them when they were sleeping.
In an interview with the Mail, Kristine Barnett said she began to terrorise the family. She had been in the United States for two years already when the Barnetts adopted her her last adoptive family had apparently given her up for ‘ undisclosed reasons’. She had a form of dwarfism, which meant she was three-foot tall and had issues walking. In 2010, they adopted a six-year-old Ukrainian girl called Natalia Grace. The couple also had two other sons together. Her son Jake had been diagnosed with autism at two. Kristine was a parenting author and motivational speaker, who was known for her expertise in raising children with special needs.
Kristine and Michael Barnett were a ‘Christian couple’ (to use the Daily Mail ’s words) from Indiana. Except this time, the story is true and it doesn’t end there. Eventually, they realised she wasn’t who they thought she was and she was trying to kill them. A couple adopted a little girl, but over time, she started acting strangely, her behaviour became sinister, even. It’s a story out of a horror film, literally.
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