A new ID series lays out what happened when Michael & Kristine Barnett accused Natalia Grace, the 6-year-old they adopted in 2010, of being a 20-year-old sociopath.
How did Natalia Grace come to live with Michael and Kristine Barnett?
Before the Barnetts met her, prospective adoptive mom Judith Irving of Clinton, Ind., recalls in the series falling in love with Natalia's picture but ultimately her husband balked at paying the $25,000 in legal fees that Natalia's existing adoptive parents requested of them.
Kimberly Franklin, Michael's younger sister, recalls in the series hearing that the Barnetts had found"period underwear" hidden in Natalia's room. They took Natalia to several therapists, Michael recalls in the show, fully expecting she'd be diagnosed with a"severe mental disorder" that could help explain her behavior.But they were shocked, he says, when one of the specialists they met with labeled their adopted daughter a sociopath—meaning, she was fully in control of her actions and knew exactly what she was doing.
Michael alleges that Natalia tried to pull Kristine into the fence and everyone came rushing to the scene of the struggle, where Natalia was flailing about. Once she was around adult male patients, according to the staffers, she flirted with them constantly. After she'd been at the hospital for a few weeks, Michael says, they got a call to come pick Natalia up because she was creating a disturbance with her sexual advances.
Natalia stayed behind in an apartment they had rented in Lafayette, Ind. Michael describes a litany of services that were in a two-block radius, including a Salvation Army, a grocery store that took food stamps and a learning center where Natalia was going to get her GED. Michael filed for divorce from Kristine in 2014 after almost 20 years of marriage and their split was finalized in 2018.
After just a few hours of deliberations, Michael was found not guilty. He was initially subpoenaed to testify against Kristine, but prosecutors ultimately dropped their case against his ex-wife in March. Her trial was scheduled to begin in April.
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