Inside the unbelievably true story surrounding Michael Barnett and Kristine Barnett's adoption of an adult who was accused of pretending to be a 6-year-old Ukrainian orphan.
The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks"This is my side of the story, and I'm going to say what happened because I never got a chance to say what happened," Natalia says.
In 2010, the Indiana couple thought they had adopted a 6-year-old orphaned girl from Ukraine. Not realizing she had a form of dwarfism called spondyloepiphyseal, the Barnetts became suspicious that their newest family member was not actually a child. Michael and Kristine, who are now divorced, were eventually charged with abandoning Natalia before Michael was found not guilty of three counts of neglect and conspiracy to commit neglect of a dependent in 2022 while charges against Kristine were dropped in March 2023.
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