Foster Father Cleared Of All Charges In Case Of IRL Orphan Pretending To Be Adopted Child!
17.11.2022 - 23:57
/ perezhilton.com
Remember Natalia Grace Barnett?
She made headlines three years ago when her story first went viral and ultimately culminated in a shocking Dr. Phil episode. To recap, Ukraine-born Natalia was adopted by an Indiana family with three sons. The Barnett family was told by the adoption agency that she was six years old when the process went through in 2010.
By 2012, though, Michael and Kristine Barnett began to doubt Natalia’s real age and wondered whether she was actually much older than first claimed. They said she behaved far differently than any six-year-old. Further, the family later claimed she tried to physically harm them!
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Yes, we know what you’re thinking. It’s the plot of the horror movie Orphan. Well, outlandish and unbelievable as it may be, it happened for real!
In June of that year, the Marion County Superior Court agreed with the Barnetts’ assessment and amended the girls’ birth record to indicate that she was born in 1989 — and not 2003, as originally claimed via the adoption agency. That means she was a twentysomething woman. So of course the parents weren’t going to continue housing her.
However, the Barnetts didn’t abandon the young woman. They set Natalia up with an apartment in the city of Lafayette and moved to Canada with their three sons in tow. Per her new birthdate as ordered by the court, she would have been in her early 20s when that all happened. But per the old Ukrainian birth record, she supposedly wasn’t even ten years old, and living in an apartment all by herself.
Natalia’s story rose to prominence after two nearby apartment residents named Antwon and Cynthia Mans befriended and helped her. The trio