Couple Adopts 6 YO Kid, Later Claims That She’s A 22 YO Sociopath & Wants To Kill Them
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I remember being completely freaked out after watching the 2009
psychological horror film ‘Orphan’. To even think that something very,
very similar happened in real-life is daunting!
According to a shocking story by Mail Online,
Kristine and Michael Barnett had adopted 6-year-old Ukrainian-born
Natalia Grace back in 2009 and in 2013, the couple faced charges of
abandoning and dumping her at an apartment and then flying off to
Canada.
When faced with police charges, the couple in their defence claimed
that Natalia wasn’t a “kid” and that she was actually a 22-year-old
woman with dwarfism, posing to be a child. She alleged that the “kid”
had been threatening the family and trying to kill them.
After adopting Natalia back in 2009, they said they noticed on their
way back home that the child couldn’t walk. The adoption paperwork
allegedly didn’t state that she couldn’t walk. However, being the loving
parents that they were, they made up their mind to care for Natalia
even with her disability.
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The Barnett couple had 3 other sons. They shared that one day, when
the entire family was at the beach and the boys were playing near the
waves, Natalia insisted her father to take her to play with them,
because you know, she couldn’t walk.
“Michael and myself were physically
exhausted so we asked her to wait just a few minutes. With that she just
got up and ran into the ocean. I remember looking at Mike and thinking,
what’s going on? She couldn’t walk a second ago and now she just got up
and ran,” said Kristine. That’s the first time the couple was
suspicious.
Another incident which added to Kristine’s suspicion was when she
was bathing Natalia. She allegedly noticed that the child had full pubic
hair, which was unusual for a 6-year-old. Later, Kristine claims she
discovered Natalia’s blood-stained clothes in the trash, inferring that
Natalia was on her periods.
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The couple claimed there were further clues leading to the conclusion
that Natalia must have been much older than she claimed – she allegedly
shunned dolls, prefered the company of older women, dispised children,
and had the perfect vocabulary.
According to The Sun,
things got worse when the Barnetts decided on getting some tests done
on her. When her bone-density test results came, it declared that
Natalia was “14 years or older”. The couple claims that was when the
“child” started attacking the family. Her adoptive parents claimed she
tried pushing the mother to an electric fence, tried poisoning her, left
blood-smeared death threats on the mirror, and so on.
After the couple sought psychiatric treatment for Natalia in 2012,
she allegedly admitted to one of her therapists that she was 22 years
old. Further evidence collected by the couple apparently convinced them
that there were discrepancies in Natalia’s real age, reports Business Insider.
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If this doesn’t scare the bejesus out of you, I don’t know what will.
Further updates reveal Natalia has now moved in with her new family. Read the updated story here.
