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IN MAY OF 2023, THE STORY
OF A UKRANIAN ORPHAN

TOOK THE WORLD BY STORM

A child from Ukraine who was adopted
by a married couple here in the US.

What happens after that will make
your head burst into flame.

Is this a child or a grown woman?

Bruh, this documentary
is unhinged as hell.

It's called The Curious Case
of Natalia Grace.

The Curious Case of Natalia Grace.

It is shocking.

More than 10 million people watched.

I have never watched
a documentary this good.

This story captured
the imagination of the world.

Oh my God. I'm blown away.

I am shooketh.

She was gonna kill everybody.

She's evil.

You've adopted a kid
and now they're trying to kill you,

I mean, it's the stuff
of a horror movie, right?

Like a serial killer or something.

There was a mention of her doing
sexual favors for money.

Kristine tried to set me up with Natalia.

She was an adult.

Natalia was a child.

Is it true? Is it not? We don't know.

I am charged with two counts
of child neglect. Is that correct?

Definitely not an area of town

that I would let my kids walk
around unattended.

He's not the kind of guy that could
do well if he had to go to prison.

I couldn't. I just couldn't.

What a creepy guy,
who does that with his daughter?

Eight months later,
the world is unified in one thing.

They want to hear from Natalia.

We don't know that there's 100%
one villain here.

There were all these pieces to a puzzle
that we couldn't quite put together.

Natalia was a victim.
The Barnetts are the predators.

Kristine trying to beat the truth out of her.

And that was what broke
my heart the most.

Did you want to hurt them?

It's all gonna come to light.

NOW NATALIA SHARES
HER SIDE OF THE STORY...

Just when you think you have it solved,
you find out you don't.

The story just got crazier.

You might not like the truth.

NATALIA REVEALS NEVER
BEFORE HEARD DETAILS

The Barnetts tried to paint me
as this big monster.

They claimed I'm lying about my age.

I was six years old
when they adopted me.

But the Barnetts did a petition to change
my age to 22 years old.

I literally lost my childhood.

When the verdict was handed
down for Michael,

and they said not guilty,
and he looked at us and he smirked.

It was like watching
my daughter be raped.

There was no justice served.

I could've caught Kristine in an alley
and put a black hoodie on,

I would've busted her upside the head.

NEW VOICES

There are things I'm going to tell you

that you have not heard
from anyone else yet.

Michael and Kristine are cowards.
They're heartless cowards.

That's not love. That's hate.

NEW THEORIES

Sometimes the truth
is crazier than fiction.

She knew that she couldn't
"give the kid back."

She's a little girl. She's not a car.

NEW ANSWERS

Many of these questions, there's not
going to be a single answer to.

There's gonna be a lot of answers to.

What I am about to show you will be
definitive as to how old Natalia was.

Her DNA has all the answers.

I was never in y'alls room with a knife.

I know what I saw.

In every lie is a hidden truth. But you
gotta dig enough to be able to see it.

They're not gonna get away with this.

This is my side of the story.
Do I look like a monster to you?

NATALIA SPEAKS

THE CURIOUS CASE
OF NATALIA GRACE

APRIL 4, 2023

There's been so much time that I've
been just trying to figure out who I am.

I have no idea.

Because right now
this is like a 1000 piece puzzle

and I think I have, like,
maybe only 300 pieces together.

I want you to know how old I am.

I want you to know about my past
because I wanna know too.

It's very fuzzy, like there's a lot
of things that I remember

but, like, I can't picture it.

So I want the puzzle to be complete.

But the things that Kristine and Michael
said that I've done is a lie.

It was all copied
off the movie "Orphan".

Ukrainian girl, Russian girl, check.
Orphan, check. All this crazy stuff.

Standing at the end of the bed
with a knife, check.

That's why I wanna do this.

That's why I wanna tell people
what really happened

because I didn't get that chance.

Michael and Kristine are painting me
as this homicidal maniac.

She was eating her period

and she hid it for this long
and having pubic hair at 7 years old

like don't trust her,
don't believe anything she says,

she tried to murder my family
and this, that, and a third.

But then you gonna come into that
apartment that y'all dropped me off in

and pretty much try to murder me.

I just want people to know the truth.

I'm Bishop Antwon Mans
and I am Natalia's dad.

We started taking in children.
We wanted to adopt

because there's a lot of children who
need a family who don't have a family.

I'm Cynthia Mans. I love being a mom,
I have literally 11 children.

And I'm Natalia Grace's mom.

I've been with the Mans family
for over 10 years.

You can see my life the way it is.

- Lot of love, great.
- Thank you.

I finally have parents that love me more
than Kristine and Michael ever did.

My dad and my mom,
they let me be a kid.

My dad protects me.
He does what a dad is supposed to do.

My mom gives me hugs every day
and tells me how much she loves me.

And never once had they had to worry
about me hurting their kids.

I have siblings that love me, you can see
that they love me and that I love them.

Hey, hey! Ow, jeez, hi! Hi!
Oh, hi, oh my gosh.

She has been a light to our family.
She has brought so much joy.

But when Natalia came into our family,
she was broken.

The hardest work in the beginning

was to get Natalia to recognize
that we're not gonna leave you.

We're here no matter what happens.

When it comes to the Barnetts,
they need to be brought to justice.

It took barely two and a half hours

for the jury to completely acquit
Michael Barnett,

returning a verdict of not guilty for all
four counts against him in this case.

- It might be over.
- Over well.

While the state may have lost this round,
some say this was just a practice run.

The real target is Kristine.

Within weeks, a new prosecution team
evaluated the evidence against Kristine,

basically the same evidence
plus Michael.

He was subpoenaed to testify
against Kristine.

And they concluded that they just don't
have a provable case against her.

And so for Natalia,

the quest to get the truth out there
about what really happened to her

and what her real age was,
was doomed from the beginning.

My name's Terrance Kinnard.

I'm a criminal defense attorney here
in Indianapolis, Indiana.

I've been representing Michael Barnett
for the better part of 5 years.

And it has been an interesting journey.

It's my opinion that
the prosecutor thought,

"Hey, if we get a conviction for Michael,
it'll absolutely give us the ammunition

"and help us get a conviction
against Kristine."

They also believed

that his animosity toward Kristine
was so deep and ingrained,

his hatred was so powerful
that they could get him to turn

and, you know, use him
as a states witness to convict her.

But it didn't work.
The charges were dropped.

And she's a free woman.

Kristine got a complete pass.

Kristine never had to answer
for her actions.

And, if true, Kristine got away
with some pretty horrific things.

I'm Beth Karas. I'm a former prosecutor in
New York City and also a legal analyst.

In my experience, this is one of the
most twisted cases I've ever seen.

This story is very different
from anything I've covered.

Usually I'm doing stories that have to do
with murder and mayhem

and this has no murder but it has a lot of
mayhem and a lot of it.

I mean it's like ping pong, you're just
going from one direction to another

as new information comes to light.

Especially now that Natalia
is able to speak to us.

And today it seems pretty clear

that Natalia has the family
she's always wanted, the Mans.

But that wasn't always the case.

Because back in 2013,

the Barnetts relocated Natalia to
Tippecanoe county as a re aged adult.

So she's living there on her own.
At an adult learning center,

Natalia gets the attention
of the faculty and staff

because it's an adult learning
center but she's kinda child-like.

So they call the police.

This is what led the current sheriff of
Tippecanoe county, Bob Goldsmith,

but then a detective, to get involved
in the investigation of Natalia.

I'm Bob Goldsmith,
I'm the sheriff of Tippecanoe county.

In our detective division,
I was the first detective involved.

People talk about a case that's
kind of like a defining moment.

The one they'll never forget.

This is one of those cases.

It was in September 2014

when I received a phone call
from the Excel Center.

And they said they had a young lady
that came in, was enrolled in school,

and things just weren't adding up.

She said this this young lady
has an Indiana ID

that says she's like 22, 25 years old or
something like that, they said,

but the conversation she has,
I think she was like maybe 11.

I've been around people with special
needs throughout my career,

but nobody like Natalia

and when she walked in, her backpack
was bigger than she was

and she was very, very short.

And she climbed right up in the chair
and started talking.

I asked her, "Do you think you're
25 years old"? And she said, "No."

I remember we got in a car.

We both have kids and we were just like,
there's no way she's that old.

Some people have commented
that it's an act.

What's your take on Natalia acting?

In all the interactions that me
and you had with Natalia

at the Excel Center, here,

even watching her in the lobby,
she always acted like a little child.

She played like a little child.
She talked like a little child.

If she's acting, she never broke it
that we can see.

I know at one point, I asked Natalia
if she had been abused.

And she kind of closed up on me.
She quit talking. She got, she got silent.

You can tell she was uncomfortable.

I don't know if that's physical abuse,
sexual, I have no idea.

But I wasn't going to pry.
I learned through the training

and having interviewed several kids and
working these cases over the years,

it's not going to do any good to pry.

When a child's ready to tell their story,
they'll tell it. So I just left it alone.

Knowing what I know,
I don't think justice had been served.

But what I do believe is that Natalia's
in a place where she's happy now.

And she feels safe and she feels loved.
And that's what she said she wanted.

COURT DEPOSITION
Michael Barnett, March 20, 2023

How old did you think Natalia was?

No clue.

- Did you think she was a child?
- No.

Why did you think that?

Because Natalia had been telling
everybody, therapists, doctors, us,

that she was a grown up.

It's true that I told everybody
that I'm 22 years old.

But Kristine literally trained me to lie.

That's what makes it worse, the
fact that it had to come from me

and they can use that against me, like,
"Oh but you said it."

"You said that you was 22 years old".
And then they changed my age.

That whole thing was just a big chain
reaction from one lie.

But people don't know what happened
in that house.

They tortured me.

I was abused.

Kristine is the real monster.

Michael is an accomplice to the monster

because he went along
with everything that Kristine said.

Who does that?

Changing my age is the worst thing
that the Barnett's ever did to me.

It hurts every single day.
But I was so terrified of Kristine.

When she told me to tell people that I
was 22 years old, that's what I did.

One time, Kristine told me, she's like,

"I'm gonna show you
what it's going to feel like."

If you do something wrong,
I'mma pepper spray you.

Kristine told me to keep my eyes open
and then she just pepper sprayed me

and I couldn't do anything about it.

She literally made me sit there
for like 10 minutes

until I could finally go and wash it out.

And even then, it still hurt.

And she didn't care.

She didn't care.

It just really hurt because
she was supposed to be my mom,

but she didn't act like a mom to me.

Kristine was going to push the envelope

as far as she could to try
to break Natalia.

So Kristine starts putting words
in Natalia's mouth.

This is what you tell people,
this is what you say, you're 22.

And the threat of being pepper sprayed
was just another control mechanism.

The abuse against Natalia
didn't start immediately.

But the Barnetts attempt
to control the narrative did.

Michael Barnett Interview
NATALIA's ADOPTIVE FATHER

October 3, 2019

Looking back to 2010,
something just wasn't right.

And you gotta understand,
with it being a closed adoption,

the adoption agency was not willing
to share any details of her

when we asked them originally,

"Can you help give us contact
information for her old family,

"we have got to find out
what's going on here."

They said no we can't.

Then I got a phone call

from the secretary of the adoption
agency a little bit later that day

and she said I can't tell you where she's
from, but check her luggage closer.

There was a little ID tag inside of her
bag when we adopted her

that had the original
family's information on it.

I have never met them in person.

I've no idea why they'd say
they've never met the Ciccones

when they literally met them
at the adoption agency.

I remember having to wait
for who knows how long

while the Ciccone's talked
to the Barnetts.

Like that's literally how I remember it,
like, plain as day.

So I don't understand that.

The Ciccones were the first family that
ever adopted me from the Ukraine.

I remember finding out
that they were gonna adopt me

and I was so excited because all I'd ever
known was being in that orphanage

and then just to find out that
someone was gonna adopt me

was just an awesome thing for me.

Like I was so excited,

I was happy that I was finally gonna have
a family that actually wanted me.

When we finally, like, pulled up into
their big driveway, like, it was a hill,

I was just like whoa.

Like I remember my 5 year old self being
so excited because it was a big house.

Once we got in, I literally just,
like, looked everywhere.

And then they opened a door and
through that door was my bedroom.

And I was so excited, it was pink.

And it was just, like,
there was everything in there.

I was with them for about 2 years.

But yeah, there was a lot
of good memories there.

But then it was like after a while, like,

everything kinda changed.

One time, me and the little boy, Piro,
we were just playing.

I landed on Piro's arm wrong.

And I just kept saying "I'm sorry,
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you."

But then Gary came in
and he just started yelling.

And then, as he was walking away,
I was crying and I was mad.

I said "I hate you."

After that, Gary,
he didn't like me anymore,

like that's what it felt like,
it felt like he hated me.

Then one day, I remember Diane
coming in my room.

She told me, she was like
"I'm not gonna be your mom anymore,

"but I will always love you."

And, like, I didn't
know what was going on.

I felt like I was abandoned
most of the time

because I bounced around from so many
different families.

Dyan Ciccone had gone to
the Little People of America

and said this little girl
is available for adoption.

There were three little people couples
interested in Natalia.

But none of them worked out.

Gary and Dyan they passed me around
from the families.

And I met a bunch but they didn't want
to adopt me or something happened.

And then all of a sudden she told me
that they found a family that wanted me.

And that's where we were going.
We were going to Florida.

It makes me mad because I pretty
much got sold! Like I'm some toy!

When the Ciccone's took me
to the adoption agency,

I remember being told to just sit outside
the room and just wait.

And the Ciccone's went in first

and talked to Michael and Kristine
and the three boys.

I remember waiting for a while,
it felt like a long time.

Finally, the Ciccones came out
and was like you can come in now.

And I remember running up to Michael
and giving him a hug

and I called him daddy '

cause the Ciccones told me that Michael
and Kristine were gonna be my parents.

Then I think it was Kristine who told me,

she was like,
"We're gonna be your family now."

And I remember still being very sad
and very confused.

I believe I cried too.

She was like it's okay.

They acted like they wanted me
to be their daughter.

So all I thought was just
"I found my family."

They're going to love me.

But thinking back on it,

I think I trusted them too fast.

My name is Jackie Starbuck.

I was the lead deputy prosecutor
on the state versus Barnett cases.

There are things I'm going to tell you

that you probably have not heard
from anyone else yet

that are part of the truth.

As we were conducting this investigation
and talking to witnesses,

it was clear that there
was something going on

that was unusual,
to say the least.

From the time

that Natalia came to the Barnett's
in April of 2010,

there continued to be a pattern of saying,

"Well, we don't know how old Natalia is.
We think she's this age.

"We think she's an adult."

When in fact,
they had been told repeatedly

by multiple medical professionals
that that wasn't the case.

They were working to hide, really,

that they ever had any connection
with Natalia,

because they also claimed that
they didn't have any records at all

about Natalia's prior medical history.

And yet they were providing
to the school system medical records

from before she was with them.

Michael lied when he said
he never met the Ciccone's

and he lied when he said
this was a closed adoption.

A closed adoption, by definition,

means no information about or contact
with the prior family.

Not only do we have Natalia's account

of the Ciccones and Barnetts meeting
at Adoption by Shepherd's Care,

but we have email exchanges between
the Barnett's and the Ciccones

and these email exchanges included

the executive director
of Adoption by Shepherds Care.

They were talking to both families.
There are also signed contracts.

And the Ciccones and Barnetts were
involved in a legal proceedings

within a few months of picking up
Natalia in Florida

because there were complications
with the adoption.

But for some reason,
Michael hid this fact.

And he led us to believe that
Adoption by Shepherd Care

was the sole adoption agency
brokering the adoption of Natalia.

But that's not true.

We get this phone call out of the blue
from Adoption by Shepherd Care.

We get this phone call from
Adoption by Shepherd Care.

I have nobody to trust except
for the experts involved.

In this case, it's going to
be Adoption by Shepherd Care.

But Gateway Woods
was their adoption agency.

But Michael never mentions
Gateway Woods. Why not?

I remember after we left the adoption
agency, we went to Disney World

and I remember seeing the Ciccone's
and I remember pointing them out.

I was like, "Hey, it's Mom."

And then Kristine was like, "That's not
your mom anymore. I'm your mom now."

And I was like, I didn't really know
what to say to that.

I was worried, like, I hope I don't do
something wrong.

We get to the hotel that night

and Kristine's going to give our brand
new daughter a bath.

And I hear a shout from the bathroom.

And she says, "Michael, look down."
And Natalia had full pubic hair.

The first night, Kristine gave me a bath

and she never mentioned anything to me
about pubic hair or anything like that.

Like, I didn't know what that even was,

like, nobody explained anything like that
to me. I was six, about to be seven.

Like, I didn't know. I don't know
why they said what they've said.

I don't remember Michael
ever coming into the bathroom.

Honestly I don't, like I just remember
Kristine as helping me get dressed

and then we was getting ready
to go to bed.

I don't remember her calling Michael
or anything like that.

I don't remember Kristine doing
any of that.

I just don't understand

why the Barnetts would say that I have
pubic hair or anything like that

because literally I didn't start noticing
any hair

until I was like seven, almost eight.

But that doesn't mean
that I'm this big monster.

I was still a kid.

Look, some kids start early, you know,
that's just that's what happens.

Regardless of what happened
in that hotel room,

we do know that that event did not trigger
any desire on the part of the Barnetts

to return Natalia.

Was this horror story by the Barnetts
in a Florida hotel room

about massive amounts of pubic hair
really revisionist history

as justification for re-aging
her years later?

Now that Natalia is able to speak
to us, we have more information.

And some of that information

includes the Gateway Woods
reports on home visits

and Dr. Riggs' report.
We did not have these before.

And this is how we learned the fact

that the Barnett's were represented
by Gateway Woods

during the adoption of Natalia.

Natalia was seen by a Dr. Riggs,
an endocrinologist,

on June 3rd, 2010.

What age was he saying
that Natalia was?

Okay, here we go, June the 3rd, 2010.

So at that time she was somewhere
between the ages of 9 and 11 years old.

And did you tell the parents this
directly?

Yes, oh yes. They were informed that.
We felt that she was a child.

So this is, like, five weeks after she
enters the Barnett household.

They knew right away she was a child.

Michael had to distance himself
from Dr. Riggs and his report

because the doctor specifically told him

that Natalia was a
child between the ages of 9 and 11.

He also had to distance himself
from Gateway Woods

because Gateway Woods incorporated
this information in their report.

Is that why Michael led everyone
to believe

that Adoption by Shepherd's Care
was his agency?

By leading others to believe
the adoption was closed,

Michael guaranteed that few would
question his story about the adoption.

We know now that this is not true,

but it made a great cover story.

Everything could've been so different
for Natalia

if she had been adopted by one of the
families she met before the Barnetts.

We're the DePauls.

As far as Natalia's age, she was a child.

We think the Barnett's should be in jail.

Both of them.

We attempted to adopt Natalia
back in 2009.

We set up a private meeting, really,
at a museum, right?

Her adoptive mother
at the time brought her.

- She came in.
- What a cute kid.

- Oh my gosh.
- She was adorable. Absolutely.

We had Mackenzie already,
our daughter, and she was 4.

We actually have pictures of Mackenzie
and her on the scooter together.

They were just like long lost sisters.

Like two peas in a pod.
It was really nice.

And we had two subsequent visits.

Halloween and they were both
princesses that year.

They got ready for bed together,
they did everything.

Helped each other blow dry their hair.

And then Mackenzie had a little car.

Just an adorable 4 and 6 year old
playing in the yard.

We were hopeful that it was going
to move forward...

And I feel like a bomb got dropped

and then we weren't able to see Natalia
again after the last visit over Christmas

because things just got really messy
with the attorneys, you know,

it had nothing to do with Natalia.
It was heartbreaking.

It was very heartbreaking.

Very, very heartbreaking.

The bond between Natalia and
the DePaul's was deep and enduring.

They loved her,
had no problems with her.

They wanted Natalia
to be a member of the family.

I'm sorry, honey.

This should have worked out
with the DePauls

but things get complicated when Child
Protective Services in New Hampshire

receive a report regarding Natalia
and the Ciccones.

The Ciccones suspected
the DePauls filed that report.

The DePauls denied it

but it culminated in Natalia's adoption
being taken off the table.

She was no longer available
to the DePauls.

As you could imagine

this was heartbreaking for the DePauls
and their daughter Mackenzie

but also, it was heartbreaking
for Natalia.

The DePauls,
they were little people like me.

And I used to always go and visit them.

I was there for Christmas,

Halloween,

and Makenzie and I were,
like, I felt like we were best friends.

I loved hanging out with her.
We did, like, almost everything together.

We're just like
what how sisters would be.

And I really did want to stay with the
DePaul's,

so I wouldn't have had to go through
the pain that I went through.

I felt like they actually wanted me
and they loved me.

But then it was just like I just stopped
seeing them. And I was sad about that.

I don't know.
It was just a really weird thing,

like I just stopped seeing
them altogether.

Yeah.

A few months later, Kristine messaged
me and she said we adopted Natalia.

The first red flag that I saw
with the Barnett family

was they got Natalia way too quickly.
Never even met her.

And they just basically that was it.
They just ripped her out of the family.

That was kind of shocking to us.
Should we make sure it's a good fit?

Should we make sure she likes us?

Should we make sure she's comfortable
with us and our other kids?

She's a little girl. She's not a car.

Another thing that felt weird
was Kristine asked me, you know,

had you ever questioned Natalia's age.

I said I never once
questioned Natalia's age.

I said I have her birth certificate,
I have all of her paperwork.

- Do you remember this?
- Yeah.

This was at the museum when
we first met Natalia. It was in 2009.

And look at her tooth.
See? It's missing, right?

Yeah.

In this picture, you can see
the difference. See the teeth?

This one's from Halloween.
Can you see the teeth?

And then this one is before that.

You can tell the changes obviously
in her teeth here.

And adults don't have changes
in their teeth like that.

That happens only once in your life,
when you're around 6 years old,

exactly how old she is in 2009.

Does that look like a 20 year old to you?

I mean, come on.
I'm sorry, but it's ludicrous.

I remember when I was with the Barnetts,

we had just got back from dinner
and my tooth came out.

I had a wiggly tooth
and my tooth came out.

'Course Kristine didn't believe me.
She said why'd you pull your tooth out?

I said I didn't pull my tooth out.

And there was, like, a long piece, like,
I guess like, almost like the root of it.

And she's like, "See, the root
is right there. You pulled it out.

"That wouldn't be there if
your tooth actually fell out."

And I didn't know what to say to that,
but I just kept telling her, no, I didn't.

I didn't pull my tooth out, it fell out.
But she just kept telling me,

"You're lying.
You pulled your tooth out. "

My name is Dr. Tim Gossweiler,

I have been practicing general dentistry
for 34 years

and I am the dentist that Natalia Barnett
and her mother came to see in 2011.

Mrs. Barnett brought in Natalia
and was saying,

"We have a question as to how
old Natalia is."

"We think she might be older
than what she says she is.

"Is there a way you can find out?"
Which is an unusual request.

Talking to Natalia, she looked like
she was about seven,

but she acted like she was much older.

She was answering questions
articulately at 7 years old,

you just don't see that all the
time and that's why I thought,

"Well, this girl can't be
seven years old."

And I can see how Mom would think
that after talking to her

because she seemed very mature.

I did ask how do they know that she's not
6 or whatever when they got her.

She's like, well we had dental records
done on her

and the dentist said that none of
her teeth are baby teeth,

they're all adult teeth.

So I was like, okay. Okay.

This is the room where
we did Natalia's panoramic X-Ray.

So what I am about to show you
will be a definitive answer

as to how old Natalia was in 2011.

Now we determined that she had 12 baby
teeth remaining.

Three in each quadrant. These three
teeth right here in all the quadrants.

It's very simple to determine
Natalia's age.

I mean there's really no question
when you take an X-Ray like this.

You got baby teeth, adult teeth
and there's a range that you have

for someone that's got this level of tooth
development and that's going to be...

I'll go to extremes,
six to nine years old.

This is way too many baby teeth
to be an adult. It's indisputable.

You can't fake teeth coming in like this.

So when mom and Natalia left, mom
knew that Natalia was around 8 or 9

which is right in the range
of what she said she was.

Doctor, did you know that her age
was changed in 2012?

Oh her age was chang...
they legally changed her age?

Oh they tried... Oh, I wasn't aware
of that. What was it changed to?

It was to 22. So her birthday
was changed to 1989.

Oh, really? Wow.

Yeah.
That's a big jump.

Nothing on the X-Ray that we took

would show that she could be
anywhere near 15 years older.

Wow, that seems crazy.

So that means that even after signing
the dental records,

Kristine still told people
that Natalia was an adult.

After the trial and everything,

all the records I have,
especially the medical records,

all points to me being a kid.

So I understand what the truth is.

I've known the truth for as long
as I can remember, that I was a kid.

But there's a lot of people who are
thinking there is a way to tell her age.

There is a way to prove it.

I just want people to just really see
the truth about my age.

At TruDiagnostics really we're answering
a fundamental question,

"How old are you?"

In fact they use this
in the insurance world

to predict when someone is going to die,
right?

So if you think about that world,
this is super important to be accurate.

What we're trying to determine is
someone's chronological age

not based off of anyone's emotions
or what he said or she said.

For Natalia we're trying to figure out,
well how old is she?

- You ready?
- No.

We're really just taking a sample of blood

which has our answers
because it's in the DNA.

Once we get the sample,

we are very excited to really tie this
entire case together.

August, 14th, 2023

I'm praying for the best for this

but I'm really nervous.

Like I don't know what
they're gonna say.

Thanks for coming to the lab.

Want to take a look at the results?

Yes.

All right.

- So moment of truth. All right?
- Yes.

Based off of all the studies and
everything being analyzed,

you're more closer to 22.

Which is pretty close to what you think,
you're almost 20.

That's within two years.

This one little piece of paper

throws every single lie
that the Barnett's have said

right into the trash with a match.

This is so big because literally
this has been 13 years,

13 years of just two people lying
their butts off.

They ruined a kid's life.

They painted them as a big monster
when in reality they were the ones.

Exactly, right.

It just proves that I was
not lying about my age.

They ignored everything that
was pointing to the truth

just so they could create this stupid lie.

So if all of that is true about her age,

that means Natalia came into the country
in 2008 when she was 4 almost 5.

Adopted by the Barnett's in 2010
when she was 7.

Natalia was 8 when the age change
petition was filed

and was placed in the apartment
in Westfield.

In July of 2013 when she was placed
in the Lafayette apartment

she would've been 9
a few months shy of turning 10.

What that means is that Natalia
was a child living on her own.

I just want to know why create this story?

They knew and they still did
what they did.

Why do this? Why go through all of this?
For what? The question is, why?

That's the million dollar question.

I always knew I wasn't an adult

but I never knew why
the Barnett's adopted me.

Never once did I see any love.

I feel like there
is something bigger with this.

I don't know what it is.
How did they shut these doctors up?

How did they hide all this evidence?

They are hiding something big.

I want to know the answers
to these questions

and I want people to pay for
what they've done.

KRISTINE BARNETT
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