Others who’d encountered Natalia before she lived with the Barnetts say that she was nothing more than a disabled and harmless child who had been bounced around from home to home after arriving in the US in 2008. Phil, Natalia firmly denied that she was an adult impersonating a child. Phil” and said the claims were “not true at all.” Natalia, who did not participate in the documentary and could not be reached by The Post, has publicly denied all of the allegations. “She talked about sex a lot … Natalia was propositioning the men.” “I remember seeing how busty she was,” says another. That’s an adult,” an anonymous hospital employee says in the doc. In 2012, the couple had Natalia admitted to the Larue Carter House mental hospital in Indianapolis. Michael claims Natalia subjected him and his family to violence and often threatened to kill them in their sleep. You’re going to die,’” he says of the fence incident. “She’d been screaming out loud, ‘You f – – king bitch, I’m going to kill you. Michael claims that Natalia maliciously baited the Barnett boys onto high-traffic roadways, smeared feces on their faces, spiked Kristine’s coffee with poisonous cleaning supplies and attempted to push her into a high-voltage electric fence. “, ‘I’m going to kill your in your sleep.’” “She’d been taking knives out of the kitchen and hiding them under her bed,” says Michael in the doc. In April 2010, Kristine and Michael Barnett decided to adopted a little girl into their brood of three boys. He also alleges that Natalia began plotting to murder his family within the first four months of the adoption. “Who the f – – k is this person? For all I know, she’d been living in Ukraine for 20 years.” We don’t know where she’s really from,” says Michael. Later, the couple claimed to have discovered she’d been menstruating. The disturbing find prompted them to believe she was an adult masquerading as a child - despite paperwork showing her date of birth as September 4, 2003. Michael and others in the doc allege that Natalia showed physical signs of maturity although she claimed to be six years old.
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“Natalia had full pubic hair,” says Michael. On April 26, 2010, after retrieving Natalia from the Adoption by Shepherd Care agency in Hollywood, Florida, the Barnetts allegedly made a shocking discovery while bathing their new daughter. “What they’d hoped would be a very happy home life turned into a true-life horror story,” legal analyst Beth Karas, a featured contributor in the doc, told The Post.īut was Natalia the perpetrator - or the victim? A separate adoptive family originally brought her to the U.S. The Barnetts adopted Natalia in April 2010. In the six-part series, Michael details the terror he, Kristine and their biological sons, Jacob, Wesley and Ethan, claim they endured at the hands of Natalia, who was born with a rare form of dwarfism called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita. “She tried to poison and kill my wife!” he says. “ threatened to stab my sons, drag their bodies outside and bury them under the deck,” Michael Barnett alleges in Investigation Discovery’s new docuseries “The Curious Case of Natalia Grace,” out Monday. When Indiana couple Michael and Kristine Barnett adopted 6-year-old Natalia Grace, a girl originally from Ukraine, in April 2010, it was a dream come true.īut almost immediately, the Barnetts claim they found themselves living in a nightmare. Why Donna Summer kept cancer a secret: ‘God was going to heal her’ Robert Englund done playing Freddy Krueger: ‘Too old and thick’ ‘American Gladiators’ dark side revealed in ESPN doc: ‘Like wartime’ Once you have created your account, please use these credentials to sign in on our desktop or mobile website for full access to your subscriber benefits.Celebrate Israel Parade Grand Marshal gives names to Jews slain by Nazis.Click "Create Account" and follow the instructions to make a profile.Click on the settings (gear) icon in the top right corner of the screen,.Open our app that you purchased a subscription for,.To link your subscription, please follow the directions below:.If you do not link your subscription, you will not be able to access unlimited stories, subscriber-only content, and the eNewspaper on our desktop and mobile website and eNewspaper app. If you purchased a subscription through an app store you will need to link your app purchase in order to have full access to our desktop and mobile website, in addition to our app.
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