Woman abandons adopted girl, claims she's really adult dwarf
Oct 1, 2019 1:47:23 GMT -5
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Woman claims adopted girl she 'abandoned' was really an adult dwarf who wanted to kill her family
A US woman accused of abandoning her daughter has claimed the girl she adopted in 2010 was in fact an adult suffering from dwarfism who ‘tried to kill’ the family.
Kristine Barnett and ex-husband Michael Barnett were charged with neglect after leaving Ukraine-born Natalie Grace in an apartment shortly before the family moved to Canada in 2013.
The family paid Natalie’s rent after they left the United States but otherwise broke off contact, Michael Barnett reportedly told police.
In a defence echoing the 2009 horror film ‘The Orphan’, Ms Barnett, 45, says Natalie was 22-years-old when they left her behind - not nine, as court documents claim.
According to a letter from the family doctor, which Ms Barnett provided to a local TV station, Natalie’s date of birth at the time of adoption was 'clearly inaccurate'.
The letter, which Indiana University Health have not confirmed as genuine, states that she had adult teeth and had begun menstruating.
It also states that the girl had made a ‘career of perpetuating her age facade’, and was diagnosed with sociopathic personality disorder.
The Barnetts had the girl’s age legally changed from eight to 22 in 2012, making her legal date of birth September, 4 1989. Ms Barnett has told Daily Mail TV that the she had attempted to harm other members of the family whilst she was under their care.
“She was hiding knives in our couches. She was talking about [how] she was going to kill family members. She put chemicals in the coffee,” Ms Barnett said.
‘She was jumping out of moving cars. She was smearing blood on mirrors. She was doing things you could never imagine a little child doing.’
“She would stand over people in their sleep. She would be standing in the middle of the room and say ‘I’m waiting for the right time’.”
Natalie was in and out of mental health facilities, but was left in an apartment in Lafayette, Indiana in 2013 when the Barnetts moved to Canada to support their son, Jacob, in further education.
The family are already known to the world through Jacob - a child prodigy who was the subject of a 2012 episode of ‘CBS 60 Minutes’. At the age of 12, Jacob was taking university maths classes and is currently pursuing a PhD in quantum gravity at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
It is not clear what happened to Natalie since she was left in Layafette, although court documents obtained by local media suggest that she was evicted from the apartment in 2014.
Mr Barnett is due to appear in court later this month.
Kristine Barnett and ex-husband Michael Barnett were charged with neglect after leaving Ukraine-born Natalie Grace in an apartment shortly before the family moved to Canada in 2013.
The family paid Natalie’s rent after they left the United States but otherwise broke off contact, Michael Barnett reportedly told police.
In a defence echoing the 2009 horror film ‘The Orphan’, Ms Barnett, 45, says Natalie was 22-years-old when they left her behind - not nine, as court documents claim.
According to a letter from the family doctor, which Ms Barnett provided to a local TV station, Natalie’s date of birth at the time of adoption was 'clearly inaccurate'.
The letter, which Indiana University Health have not confirmed as genuine, states that she had adult teeth and had begun menstruating.
It also states that the girl had made a ‘career of perpetuating her age facade’, and was diagnosed with sociopathic personality disorder.
The Barnetts had the girl’s age legally changed from eight to 22 in 2012, making her legal date of birth September, 4 1989. Ms Barnett has told Daily Mail TV that the she had attempted to harm other members of the family whilst she was under their care.
“She was hiding knives in our couches. She was talking about [how] she was going to kill family members. She put chemicals in the coffee,” Ms Barnett said.
‘She was jumping out of moving cars. She was smearing blood on mirrors. She was doing things you could never imagine a little child doing.’
“She would stand over people in their sleep. She would be standing in the middle of the room and say ‘I’m waiting for the right time’.”
Natalie was in and out of mental health facilities, but was left in an apartment in Lafayette, Indiana in 2013 when the Barnetts moved to Canada to support their son, Jacob, in further education.
The family are already known to the world through Jacob - a child prodigy who was the subject of a 2012 episode of ‘CBS 60 Minutes’. At the age of 12, Jacob was taking university maths classes and is currently pursuing a PhD in quantum gravity at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
It is not clear what happened to Natalie since she was left in Layafette, although court documents obtained by local media suggest that she was evicted from the apartment in 2014.
Mr Barnett is due to appear in court later this month.
Parents plead not guilty:
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/indiana-couple-pleads-not-guilty-abandoning-adopted-daughter-moving-canada-n1059681
An Indiana couple accused of abandoning their young, adopted daughter and moving the rest of their family to Canada made their first appearance in court Friday.
Kristine Barnett and her now ex-husband, Michael, both pleaded not guilty to two counts of felony neglect of a dependent after prosecutors accused them of legally changing their daughter Natalia's age from 8 to 22 and then leaving her alone in an apartment in Lafayette in Tippecanoe County in 2013.
The couple, along with their biological children, then moved to Canada, according to a probable cause affidavit. They have both said that Natalia, who has a form of dwarfism, was actually an adult when they adopted her in 2010 and was pretending to be a child.
Kristine Barnett also told WISH-TV in Indianapolis that Natalia was diagnosed as both a psychopath and a sociopath.
Following Friday's hearing, Kristine Barnett declined to comment on the case when approached by reporters outside the courthouse. Her attorney, Philip Hayes, told NBC News that his client is "ready for this to be adjudicated" and is looking forward to telling "her story in court."
Terrance Kinnard, an attorney for Michael Barnett, held a brief news conference following the hearing and said that he believes his client and Kristine Barnett will be "vindicated of the charges." He also told reporters that he does not believe Natalia has ever been truthful about her actual age.
The Tippecanoe County Sheriff's Office became involved in September 2014 when Natalia told authorities that she had not seen Michael and Kristine Barnett since they rented an apartment for her and left her there while they moved to Canada. Natalia is originally from Ukraine and came to the United States in 2008 through an adoption program, according to court documents.
She was adopted by the Barnett family in November 2010. Kristine Barnett told WISH-TV that she and Michael initially believed they were adopting a child. According to the probable cause affidavit, hospital records from June 2010 showed that Natalia's age was approximately 8 years old.
However, hospital records from two years later in June 2012 showed her age to be about 11, the affidavit says. That same year, prosecutors allege that Michael and Kristine Barnett legally changed Natalia's age to 22 and Kristine instructed Natalia to tell people that she looked young but was an adult.
It remains unclear how the couple was able to change her age. According to prosecutors, the alleged neglect went on from July 2013 to February 2016, when Natalia moved out of the Tippecanoe County area. They have not said where she currently is or how she was able to care for herself while she was alone in Indiana.
Kristine Barnett is due back in court in December for a pretrial conference and Michael Barnett is scheduled to appear in October for a confidential hearing, according to online court records.
Kristine Barnett and her now ex-husband, Michael, both pleaded not guilty to two counts of felony neglect of a dependent after prosecutors accused them of legally changing their daughter Natalia's age from 8 to 22 and then leaving her alone in an apartment in Lafayette in Tippecanoe County in 2013.
The couple, along with their biological children, then moved to Canada, according to a probable cause affidavit. They have both said that Natalia, who has a form of dwarfism, was actually an adult when they adopted her in 2010 and was pretending to be a child.
Kristine Barnett also told WISH-TV in Indianapolis that Natalia was diagnosed as both a psychopath and a sociopath.
Following Friday's hearing, Kristine Barnett declined to comment on the case when approached by reporters outside the courthouse. Her attorney, Philip Hayes, told NBC News that his client is "ready for this to be adjudicated" and is looking forward to telling "her story in court."
Terrance Kinnard, an attorney for Michael Barnett, held a brief news conference following the hearing and said that he believes his client and Kristine Barnett will be "vindicated of the charges." He also told reporters that he does not believe Natalia has ever been truthful about her actual age.
The Tippecanoe County Sheriff's Office became involved in September 2014 when Natalia told authorities that she had not seen Michael and Kristine Barnett since they rented an apartment for her and left her there while they moved to Canada. Natalia is originally from Ukraine and came to the United States in 2008 through an adoption program, according to court documents.
She was adopted by the Barnett family in November 2010. Kristine Barnett told WISH-TV that she and Michael initially believed they were adopting a child. According to the probable cause affidavit, hospital records from June 2010 showed that Natalia's age was approximately 8 years old.
However, hospital records from two years later in June 2012 showed her age to be about 11, the affidavit says. That same year, prosecutors allege that Michael and Kristine Barnett legally changed Natalia's age to 22 and Kristine instructed Natalia to tell people that she looked young but was an adult.
It remains unclear how the couple was able to change her age. According to prosecutors, the alleged neglect went on from July 2013 to February 2016, when Natalia moved out of the Tippecanoe County area. They have not said where she currently is or how she was able to care for herself while she was alone in Indiana.
Kristine Barnett is due back in court in December for a pretrial conference and Michael Barnett is scheduled to appear in October for a confidential hearing, according to online court records.
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