IRL Orphan Natalia Grace Barnett's Adoptive Father & Brother Say She Was 'Trying To Kill' Family In Shocking New Doc
perezhilton.comNatalia Grace Barnett‘s story is finally being told — and it is still confusing as ever! You might recall a few years ago a story about a young orphan made headlines when her adoptive family claimed she was actually an adult woman hellbent on killing them.
The whole thing seemed pulled straight from Orphan, but it was real! If you’re not caught up on the case, the drama all began when Michael Barnett and his wife Kristine Barnett adopted a Ukrainian child who was born with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia, a rare genetic disorder, whom they were told was 6 years old.
Once the adoption went through in 2010, the parents and their three sons began to believe Natalia was far older than she said and they even managed to get Marion County Superior Court to agree to legally change the girl’s birth record to indicate she was born in 1989 — not 2003.
Now that she was legally a 20-something, they moved her into an apartment in Lafayette, Indiana while they moved with their sons to Canada. Related: 15-Year-Old Girl Charged With 19 Murders In School Dorm Fire There, she befriended neighbors Antwon and Cynthia Mans who welcomed her into their home.
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