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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:05,890 --> 00:00:07,000 You wanna give me a word? 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:08,070 You want, you want, 3 00:00:08,270 --> 00:00:09,170 You wanna have me 4 00:00:09,370 --> 00:00:10,620 Give you one word 5 00:00:10,820 --> 00:00:12,960 That describes natalia to me? 6 00:00:13,510 --> 00:00:14,680 Enigma. 7 00:00:16,370 --> 00:00:18,240 She won't tell us the truth in who she is. 8 00:00:19,060 --> 00:00:22,790 We are living with a con artist sociopath. 9 00:00:22,990 --> 00:00:25,790 Now a story making headlines around the world. 10 00:00:25,990 --> 00:00:29,100 Is this a child or a grown woman? 11 00:00:29,300 --> 00:00:32,000 The barnetts believe the adoption was a scam all along. 12 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:33,620 They claim they were tricked 13 00:00:33,820 --> 00:00:35,370 Into adopting an adult. 14 00:00:35,890 --> 00:00:36,900 She's evil. 15 00:00:37,100 --> 00:00:39,790 I promise you, 16 00:00:39,990 --> 00:00:42,270 Within five years, someone's dead. 17 00:00:42,470 --> 00:00:43,680 What is it? 18 00:00:44,510 --> 00:00:45,650 Why? 19 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:49,900 She threatened to stab my sons, 20 00:00:50,100 --> 00:00:52,100 Drag their bodies outside 21 00:00:52,300 --> 00:00:54,270 And bury them under the deck. 22 00:00:54,470 --> 00:00:56,310 She tried to poison and kill my wife. 23 00:00:56,510 --> 00:00:59,000 Bye-Bye! 24 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:01,620 She said, "i pulled a knife on my parents. Big deal." 25 00:01:01,820 --> 00:01:03,790 It's like a serial killer or something. 26 00:01:03,990 --> 00:01:06,000 It's how casually they put attempted murder 27 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:07,380 Into a conversation. 28 00:01:07,580 --> 00:01:09,060 She was gonna kill everybody. 29 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:12,620 You've adopted a kid and now they're trying to kill you. 30 00:01:12,820 --> 00:01:14,790 I mean, it's the stuff of a horror movie, right? 31 00:01:15,270 --> 00:01:16,520 If you watch the orphan, 32 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:17,960 It's just like the orphan. 33 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:25,680 She was an adult. You could tell by looking at her. 34 00:01:33,100 --> 00:01:34,270 Natalia was a victim. 35 00:01:34,470 --> 00:01:36,100 The barnetts are the predators. 36 00:01:36,300 --> 00:01:38,000 They just literally left her to the wolves. 37 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:40,790 I don't know that there's 100% one villain here. 38 00:01:40,990 --> 00:01:44,480 Kristine basically said that natalia destroyed their lives. 39 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:48,520 Irregardless of her age, she was left 40 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:52,000 Feeling abandoned and neglected, alone. 41 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:53,380 Natalia was a child. 42 00:01:53,580 --> 00:01:55,070 I know that for sure 43 00:01:55,270 --> 00:01:57,750 Because i'm a little person. 44 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:00,270 I think kristine barnett 45 00:02:00,470 --> 00:02:02,440 Is a sorry excuse for a mother. 46 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:08,620 When i found out what happened to her, 47 00:02:08,820 --> 00:02:11,000 That was what broke my heart the most. 48 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:13,960 There were a lot of secrets in that house. 49 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:16,900 His minimum sentence 50 00:02:17,100 --> 00:02:18,270 Is three to 16 years. 51 00:02:19,510 --> 00:02:20,790 It doesn't smell right. 52 00:02:20,990 --> 00:02:22,170 There's something wrong. 53 00:02:22,370 --> 00:02:23,580 It smells like. 54 00:02:29,890 --> 00:02:32,690 Do you know the difference between the truth and a lie? 55 00:02:32,890 --> 00:02:35,210 - I didn't at the time, no. - Oh, you didn't know. 56 00:02:35,410 --> 00:02:37,410 I was just listening to what kristine told me to tell them. 57 00:02:37,610 --> 00:02:39,380 You just don't know the true barnetts. 58 00:02:39,580 --> 00:02:41,000 There was domestic violence. 59 00:02:42,990 --> 00:02:44,690 They'll do anything to get what they want. 60 00:02:44,890 --> 00:02:46,900 There were all these pieces to a puzzle 61 00:02:47,100 --> 00:02:48,410 That we couldn't quite put together. 62 00:02:48,610 --> 00:02:50,100 You're saying you lie 63 00:02:50,300 --> 00:02:52,270 - Because she told you to lie. - Yes. 64 00:02:52,470 --> 00:02:54,620 Michael and kristine not only lied 65 00:02:54,820 --> 00:02:56,960 To get her into their family, 66 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:59,210 But they also lied to get rid of her. 67 00:02:59,410 --> 00:03:02,100 This is one of the most twisted cases ever. 68 00:03:02,300 --> 00:03:03,900 I know he's not the kinda guy 69 00:03:04,100 --> 00:03:06,000 That could do well if he had to go to prison. 70 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:08,000 You got a seatbelt? Buckle up. 71 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:10,170 I don't think anyone will ever get 72 00:03:10,370 --> 00:03:13,070 The complete truth. 73 00:03:13,270 --> 00:03:15,410 So much of this is a mystery. 74 00:03:15,610 --> 00:03:17,900 [man 1] i still don't have concrete answers. 75 00:03:18,100 --> 00:03:20,100 [man 2] somebody's not telling the truth. 76 00:03:20,300 --> 00:03:22,000 It is a web of lies. 77 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:24,580 I'm not sure you can trust anybody in this case. 78 00:03:26,060 --> 00:03:27,900 We were all abused! 79 00:03:28,100 --> 00:03:29,860 We were all abused! 80 00:03:32,890 --> 00:03:34,580 I'm so scared. 81 00:03:36,370 --> 00:03:38,550 This will never stop. 82 00:04:05,620 --> 00:04:07,210 I hope i don't overstate this 83 00:04:07,410 --> 00:04:10,000 And make it seem a little bit too normal rockwell, 84 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:12,070 American, uh, life, 85 00:04:12,270 --> 00:04:14,070 But life was fantastic. 86 00:04:14,270 --> 00:04:15,790 It really was. 87 00:04:16,790 --> 00:04:18,440 This was summer 2010. 88 00:04:18,890 --> 00:04:20,520 Life's great. 89 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:22,440 We'd been married for about 15 years. 90 00:04:23,170 --> 00:04:24,410 We have three sons, 91 00:04:24,610 --> 00:04:26,170 Jacob, wesley and ethan. 92 00:04:26,370 --> 00:04:27,580 Financially, we're doing great. 93 00:04:27,780 --> 00:04:30,860 We've got a literal brand new mcmansion, 94 00:04:32,510 --> 00:04:35,650 5,000-Square-Foot home in a prestigious town 95 00:04:36,790 --> 00:04:39,170 And a driveway loaded with cars in it. 96 00:04:39,370 --> 00:04:42,380 There's a lamborghini in my driveway, for god's sakes. 97 00:04:42,580 --> 00:04:44,900 We have 13 tvs. We've got 14 couches. 98 00:04:45,100 --> 00:04:49,210 There was hundreds of thousands of dollars in the bank account. 99 00:04:49,410 --> 00:04:52,170 More importantly, we were a very tight-Knit family. 100 00:04:53,370 --> 00:04:54,790 It really was 101 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:57,270 The pinnacle of life. 102 00:04:58,510 --> 00:05:00,070 Michael loved kristine dearly. 103 00:05:00,270 --> 00:05:02,480 When the flowers came for their anniversary, 104 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:03,960 It was a dozen roses for 105 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:05,790 Every year they were married. 106 00:05:05,990 --> 00:05:08,580 So, for their 10th anniversary, 107 00:05:08,780 --> 00:05:10,170 10 dozen roses. 108 00:05:10,620 --> 00:05:11,790 Kristine and i, 109 00:05:11,990 --> 00:05:14,000 We could do anything together. 110 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:17,410 And when we realized our oldest son jacob 111 00:05:17,610 --> 00:05:19,170 Has asperger's, or autism, 112 00:05:19,370 --> 00:05:20,960 We fought those fights. 113 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:22,620 We were downright amazing 114 00:05:22,820 --> 00:05:24,100 At the things we could accomplish. 115 00:05:24,300 --> 00:05:25,620 I'm jacob barnett 116 00:05:25,820 --> 00:05:28,070 Here with an introduction to scientific notation. 117 00:05:28,270 --> 00:05:29,790 I figured that, since i was teaching it 118 00:05:29,990 --> 00:05:31,620 To my two brothers, wesley and ethan, 119 00:05:31,820 --> 00:05:33,620 I would be able to post it onto youtube. 120 00:05:33,820 --> 00:05:36,900 Okay, so i'm going to finish this integral. 121 00:05:37,100 --> 00:05:38,580 D by dx. 122 00:05:38,780 --> 00:05:40,310 Their oldest son is a genius 123 00:05:40,510 --> 00:05:42,480 And was moving through schooling 124 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:44,650 Faster than i move through a pair of shoes. 125 00:05:46,510 --> 00:05:47,900 I did not come here 126 00:05:48,100 --> 00:05:49,620 To frighten you all with quantum mechanics. 127 00:05:50,890 --> 00:05:52,370 Not yet. 128 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:57,070 We would get a message from michael saying, 129 00:05:57,270 --> 00:05:58,620 "hey, did you see the paper? 130 00:05:58,820 --> 00:06:00,170 Jake's on the front page," 131 00:06:00,370 --> 00:06:02,620 To, "kristine's writing a book. 132 00:06:02,820 --> 00:06:04,960 It's been picked up by a publisher." 133 00:06:06,780 --> 00:06:07,960 Cubed, divided by... 134 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:09,690 He has a full scholarship 135 00:06:09,890 --> 00:06:12,380 At the joint indiana university-Purdue campus. 136 00:06:12,580 --> 00:06:15,790 For jake, fun is reciting from memory 137 00:06:15,990 --> 00:06:19,000 The infinite series of numbers known as pi. 138 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:24,580 3.1415926535897932384626433... 139 00:06:24,780 --> 00:06:28,620 Jacob's one of the smartest people i've ever heard of. 140 00:06:28,820 --> 00:06:30,550 They're travelling the world. 141 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:33,270 Jacob, when he was 15, 142 00:06:33,470 --> 00:06:34,790 Got an award from the vatican. 143 00:06:38,410 --> 00:06:40,690 This was where the barnett's lived. 144 00:06:40,890 --> 00:06:43,270 The garage was, um, 145 00:06:43,470 --> 00:06:46,790 Where kristine barnett had her daycare. 146 00:06:46,990 --> 00:06:49,000 They were all special-Needs kids. 147 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:52,000 The barnett family opened up a foundation 148 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:55,690 A place where parents and kids with autism 149 00:06:55,890 --> 00:06:58,380 Could go be with other parents and kids with autism 150 00:06:58,580 --> 00:06:59,580 And feel normal. 151 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:01,900 We were proud of them 152 00:07:02,100 --> 00:07:05,550 And they just seemed so happy together. 153 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:10,440 The barnetts had the picture-Perfect life 154 00:07:11,370 --> 00:07:12,550 It seemed. 155 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:17,210 So, we went from early 2010 156 00:07:17,410 --> 00:07:19,690 Were blessed with many things. 157 00:07:19,890 --> 00:07:21,790 By the time 2014 came around, 158 00:07:21,990 --> 00:07:24,170 I have 37 cents in my bank account, 159 00:07:25,370 --> 00:07:26,550 I have no wife, 160 00:07:27,060 --> 00:07:28,410 I have no children, 161 00:07:28,610 --> 00:07:29,680 I have no home, 162 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:31,900 I have no job. 163 00:07:32,100 --> 00:07:33,900 My possessions, at that moment, 164 00:07:34,100 --> 00:07:37,060 Was my car and a backpack of clothing. 165 00:07:38,890 --> 00:07:41,030 If natalia never entered our lives, 166 00:07:42,100 --> 00:07:43,480 I never get divorced. 167 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:51,790 They, they're... They interviewed me three times 168 00:07:51,990 --> 00:07:54,380 With a detective in a bulletproof vest. 169 00:07:54,580 --> 00:07:56,860 What? What are they gonna charge you with? 170 00:08:02,890 --> 00:08:04,270 Kristine, listen— 171 00:08:05,170 --> 00:08:06,580 I'm... Kristine... 172 00:08:06,780 --> 00:08:08,270 Kristine, listen. Listen to my voice. 173 00:08:08,470 --> 00:08:09,550 I'm done... 174 00:08:17,100 --> 00:08:18,620 We had no idea what we were dealing with. 175 00:08:18,820 --> 00:08:21,240 And tensions were so incredibly high. 176 00:08:22,790 --> 00:08:25,440 It was a very rough time, 177 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:28,240 Especially for the children. 178 00:08:35,270 --> 00:08:36,550 I'm jake barnett. 179 00:08:37,270 --> 00:08:40,580 Since i've last been seen publicly, 180 00:08:40,780 --> 00:08:43,240 In some ways, i think i've regressed. 181 00:08:44,620 --> 00:08:47,000 I'm, uh, in my dad's basement right now. 182 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:48,340 It's in indiana. 183 00:08:52,100 --> 00:08:54,620 Usually, i say natalia's my adopted sister, 184 00:08:54,820 --> 00:08:56,520 So then, uh, i guess i would say, 185 00:08:56,720 --> 00:08:58,790 "i'm jacob. I'm natalia's adopted brother," 186 00:08:58,990 --> 00:09:01,690 But that particular, um, 187 00:09:01,890 --> 00:09:03,790 Way of introducing myself is kind of irrelevant 188 00:09:03,990 --> 00:09:06,680 Because i haven't seen natalia in, like, a decade. 189 00:09:08,100 --> 00:09:11,790 I find the situation incredibly confusing. 190 00:09:13,310 --> 00:09:15,520 It's like i wanna know what happened 191 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:17,790 And i wanna know the actual, like, truth 192 00:09:17,990 --> 00:09:19,900 And everyone's motives, 193 00:09:20,100 --> 00:09:23,100 But at the same time, um, 194 00:09:23,300 --> 00:09:24,960 I don't wanna remember that 195 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:28,690 And i don't want to, um, 196 00:09:28,890 --> 00:09:31,960 Have to revisit, um, 197 00:09:32,890 --> 00:09:35,440 A lot of trauma from my childhood. 198 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:40,620 It's, uh, difficult for me to piece together 199 00:09:40,820 --> 00:09:42,860 What happened with adopting natalia. 200 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:52,030 Before natalia, we had been married for about 15 years. 201 00:09:52,680 --> 00:09:55,410 It's easily the best moment in time 202 00:09:55,610 --> 00:09:56,790 That our marriage ever had. 203 00:09:56,990 --> 00:09:59,170 We were so happy and comfortable 204 00:09:59,370 --> 00:10:01,900 That we had gotten to the point that, you know, 205 00:10:02,100 --> 00:10:04,170 We started talking about, "maybe, 206 00:10:04,370 --> 00:10:06,170 Maybe there's room here for somebody else." 207 00:10:06,370 --> 00:10:09,520 We were gonna adopt a little girl out of haiti named gilberta, 208 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:12,380 And right before that april, 209 00:10:12,580 --> 00:10:14,480 Uh, the earthquake hit haiti, 210 00:10:14,680 --> 00:10:17,070 And suddenly our hopes were dashed 211 00:10:17,270 --> 00:10:20,620 Because haiti shut down all adoptions out of the country. 212 00:10:20,820 --> 00:10:23,790 So we were ready to adopt, but we missed our window. 213 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:27,070 And then we get this phone call out of nowhere 214 00:10:27,270 --> 00:10:29,000 From this adoption agency in florida 215 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:30,750 Called adoption by shepherd care. 216 00:10:32,270 --> 00:10:34,380 They say, "hey, we know you. 217 00:10:34,580 --> 00:10:36,480 We've seen your home study. 218 00:10:36,680 --> 00:10:39,000 We know that you have a charity for special-Needs children, 219 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:40,900 You've been doing that for a decade. 220 00:10:41,100 --> 00:10:43,790 We think you'd be perfect for this little girl 221 00:10:43,990 --> 00:10:46,000 That's gonna be coming to us. 222 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:48,380 She's a little person. She has dwarfism. 223 00:10:48,580 --> 00:10:50,060 Now, here's the problem. 224 00:10:50,620 --> 00:10:52,480 You got 24 hours to decide, 225 00:10:53,370 --> 00:10:54,900 And if you don't come get her on monday, 226 00:10:55,100 --> 00:10:57,380 She's going directly to foster care." 227 00:10:57,580 --> 00:10:59,550 Kristine and i almost took it as a sign from above. 228 00:11:04,270 --> 00:11:06,680 Now we're jumped on a plane, flying to florida. 229 00:11:07,100 --> 00:11:08,440 It's exciting. 230 00:11:11,510 --> 00:11:14,030 When i found out i was gonna have a sister, 231 00:11:14,580 --> 00:11:15,860 I was really excited. 232 00:11:16,890 --> 00:11:19,410 We had some white t-Shirts 233 00:11:19,610 --> 00:11:22,680 That we painted on saying, "welcome home, natalia." 234 00:11:28,510 --> 00:11:29,900 We pull up in the town, 235 00:11:30,100 --> 00:11:31,270 And, you know, i'll be honest, 236 00:11:31,470 --> 00:11:33,580 I was a little taken aback by 237 00:11:33,780 --> 00:11:35,900 The adoption agency location. 238 00:11:36,100 --> 00:11:39,790 It was in a rundown strip mall, 239 00:11:41,060 --> 00:11:42,580 Maybe on the wrong side of tracks, 240 00:11:43,580 --> 00:11:47,690 Little house that's been converted into offices. 241 00:11:47,890 --> 00:11:49,900 It didn't look like an adoption agency at all. 242 00:11:50,100 --> 00:11:53,520 First thing i'm saying to my wife is, "check the address. 243 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:55,070 This just doesn't look right. 244 00:11:55,270 --> 00:11:56,860 We're gonna get a child here?" 245 00:11:57,620 --> 00:11:58,790 Uh, so we start coming in 246 00:11:58,990 --> 00:12:00,790 And they sit us into a little room 247 00:12:00,990 --> 00:12:03,210 No bigger than the size of this room we're in right now, 248 00:12:03,410 --> 00:12:05,240 And they tell us, "just wait here." 249 00:12:05,890 --> 00:12:07,790 Natalia's coming soon." 250 00:12:07,990 --> 00:12:09,000 And you've gotta understand, 251 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:10,480 With it being a closed adoption, 252 00:12:10,680 --> 00:12:12,070 The adoption agency was not willing 253 00:12:12,270 --> 00:12:14,000 To share any details of her 254 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:15,310 Before we came down. 255 00:12:15,510 --> 00:12:17,580 They gave us two pictures of her. 256 00:12:17,780 --> 00:12:20,790 They gave us a ukrainian-Language birth certificate. 257 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:23,440 Birth certificate supported six. 258 00:12:23,890 --> 00:12:25,690 Uh, september, 4th, 2003. 259 00:12:25,890 --> 00:12:27,310 We were all excited about that. 260 00:12:27,510 --> 00:12:29,310 My youngest son was six. 261 00:12:29,510 --> 00:12:31,620 He was also born in the summer of 2003. 262 00:12:31,820 --> 00:12:34,070 We thought this was gonna be a situation 263 00:12:34,270 --> 00:12:36,960 Where they're going to grow and develop and be twins. 264 00:12:39,680 --> 00:12:41,790 We're in there for about an hour by ourselves. 265 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:44,380 We sign paperwork pretty quick. 266 00:12:44,580 --> 00:12:46,170 "sign here, sign here, sign here." 267 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:48,380 We hear the front door open. 268 00:12:50,100 --> 00:12:51,520 "that's gotta be her." 269 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:53,270 We start peeking through the keyhole. 270 00:12:53,470 --> 00:12:55,210 There's a little itty-Bitty keyhole. It's a solid door. 271 00:12:55,410 --> 00:12:57,410 And we're looking and we're looking. 272 00:12:57,610 --> 00:12:59,960 Like, "oh, can i see her?" 273 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:02,340 I was really excited for her to come home. 274 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:05,310 About 20, 30 minutes go by, 275 00:13:05,510 --> 00:13:07,070 And we can see the door open 276 00:13:07,270 --> 00:13:10,100 And we can see the other family leave. 277 00:13:10,300 --> 00:13:11,900 She was adopted before. 278 00:13:12,100 --> 00:13:13,960 This was her family that adopted her the first time. 279 00:13:14,680 --> 00:13:15,790 Natalia's left behind. 280 00:13:15,990 --> 00:13:17,060 They had flown in, 281 00:13:17,580 --> 00:13:19,680 Dropped her off, flew out. 282 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:22,380 We never spoke to them 283 00:13:22,580 --> 00:13:24,000 And we are just thinking, 284 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:28,240 "how dare these other people give up on her?" 285 00:13:29,060 --> 00:13:31,070 And we'd been worried 286 00:13:31,270 --> 00:13:33,900 For the last couple of days, worried sick 287 00:13:34,100 --> 00:13:35,960 That our new daughter's not gonna like us. 288 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:38,170 And the next thing you know, the door opens, 289 00:13:38,890 --> 00:13:39,900 Natalia's right there, 290 00:13:40,100 --> 00:13:41,410 She comes running in, 291 00:13:41,610 --> 00:13:43,380 She's got this big smile on her face, 292 00:13:43,580 --> 00:13:45,380 She's happy as can be, 293 00:13:45,580 --> 00:13:48,440 And she's shouting, "mommy, daddy, mommy, daddy, mommy, daddy!" 294 00:13:49,790 --> 00:13:51,410 We're overcome with joy and emotion. 295 00:13:51,610 --> 00:13:52,480 Oh, my gosh. 296 00:13:52,680 --> 00:13:54,070 That day in and of itself, 297 00:13:54,270 --> 00:13:56,100 Without context, 298 00:13:56,300 --> 00:13:58,030 Is one of the five greatest days of my life. 299 00:14:00,270 --> 00:14:02,170 She was very small. 300 00:14:04,100 --> 00:14:06,680 She had long, curly brown hair. 301 00:14:08,370 --> 00:14:10,380 She had brown eyes and pronounced cheeks 302 00:14:10,580 --> 00:14:13,240 That really stood out when she smiled. 303 00:14:15,270 --> 00:14:16,620 I remember the way that 304 00:14:16,820 --> 00:14:19,480 Her hands are jointed 305 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:22,410 As not the same as ours 306 00:14:22,610 --> 00:14:23,790 Because of her dwarfism. 307 00:14:23,990 --> 00:14:25,000 Like, her fingers, like, 308 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:27,440 Sort of bent in a bit like this. 309 00:14:28,410 --> 00:14:31,170 But i was overjoyed the day that i met her. 310 00:14:33,100 --> 00:14:35,000 The fun times i can remember with natalia 311 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:37,680 Are pretty much from that first week where we were in florida. 312 00:14:39,510 --> 00:14:41,960 We went with natalia to disney world. 313 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,410 We were all excited to have her in the family 314 00:14:45,610 --> 00:14:49,340 And natalia seemed happy to join our family. 315 00:14:50,410 --> 00:14:53,580 If i was a little girl needing to be adopted 316 00:14:54,100 --> 00:14:56,310 And they came for me, 317 00:14:56,510 --> 00:14:58,790 Heck yeah, jackpot. 318 00:15:01,580 --> 00:15:03,410 So, we get to the hotel that night, 319 00:15:03,610 --> 00:15:07,340 And kristine's going to give our brand-New daughter a bath 320 00:15:08,270 --> 00:15:10,440 And i hear a shout from the bathroom. 321 00:15:13,170 --> 00:15:15,620 This was a, "i'm not playing around. 322 00:15:15,820 --> 00:15:18,100 Come here right now, michael," shout. 323 00:15:18,300 --> 00:15:21,000 I get up, i go flying to the bathroom, 324 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:24,240 And the color's almost gone from her face. 325 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:26,690 It's almost like she's seen a ghost. 326 00:15:26,890 --> 00:15:28,790 She's, she's truly frightened 327 00:15:28,990 --> 00:15:30,790 And she just doesn't know what she's seeing 328 00:15:30,990 --> 00:15:32,070 And what's going on. 329 00:15:32,270 --> 00:15:34,790 She says, "michael, michael, look. 330 00:15:35,790 --> 00:15:36,900 Look down." 331 00:15:37,100 --> 00:15:38,790 And natalia had full pubic hair. 332 00:15:39,790 --> 00:15:43,130 And i don't know what to think. 333 00:15:44,790 --> 00:15:47,580 "is that possible? Is that even possible?" 334 00:15:50,370 --> 00:15:51,750 "who the is this person?" 335 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:59,070 "can a 6-Year-Old have full pubic hair? I don't know." 336 00:15:59,270 --> 00:16:02,070 Google's telling us, "well, earliest possible time, 337 00:16:02,270 --> 00:16:04,240 Lowest common denominator, eight." 338 00:16:05,270 --> 00:16:07,170 So we just go, "okay, look, our mission, 339 00:16:07,370 --> 00:16:09,000 We were going to show love and compassion 340 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:10,690 To somebody that never had it before. 341 00:16:10,890 --> 00:16:12,440 That doesn't make a difference." 342 00:16:18,370 --> 00:16:19,830 I'm kathy barnett. 343 00:16:20,030 --> 00:16:21,750 I'm michael barnett's mother. 344 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:26,060 I found out that natalia was coming. 345 00:16:27,170 --> 00:16:29,000 I was so excited 346 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:32,070 To treat this child special. 347 00:16:32,270 --> 00:16:33,650 When they brought her home, 348 00:16:33,850 --> 00:16:37,270 They had a very large party to welcome her. 349 00:16:37,470 --> 00:16:39,650 She was dressed up in a dress. 350 00:16:39,850 --> 00:16:42,380 She had beautiful, curly, dark hair. 351 00:16:42,580 --> 00:16:44,480 And michael was euphoric that day. 352 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:47,000 He was almost as euphoric as the day jacob was born 353 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:49,070 And michael came out of the delivery room. 354 00:16:49,270 --> 00:16:50,650 He was a happy man. 355 00:16:52,100 --> 00:16:54,340 You want that? There you go. Go sit and chew. 356 00:16:54,860 --> 00:16:56,060 Go show him. 357 00:16:56,860 --> 00:16:58,580 My name's kimberly franklin. 358 00:16:58,780 --> 00:17:01,340 I am michael barnett's little sister. 359 00:17:01,930 --> 00:17:03,380 When i first met natalia, 360 00:17:03,580 --> 00:17:05,070 I was, you know, totally prepared. 361 00:17:05,270 --> 00:17:07,270 I knew that she was a little person. 362 00:17:07,470 --> 00:17:09,270 And what really struck me, though, 363 00:17:09,470 --> 00:17:11,650 Was that she almost looked like one of us. 364 00:17:11,850 --> 00:17:12,900 She had the dark hair. 365 00:17:13,100 --> 00:17:14,380 She really looked like 366 00:17:14,580 --> 00:17:16,170 She could've been my brother's daughter. 367 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:23,070 My name's rachel 368 00:17:23,270 --> 00:17:26,270 And i live two doors down from the barnetts, 369 00:17:26,470 --> 00:17:27,750 Where they used to live. 370 00:17:28,750 --> 00:17:30,900 Nosy neighbor, that's me. 371 00:17:31,100 --> 00:17:33,060 I like to know what's going on in the neighborhood. 372 00:17:38,750 --> 00:17:40,750 We were friends with michael and kristine 373 00:17:42,370 --> 00:17:43,750 And our kids played together. 374 00:17:44,580 --> 00:17:46,170 Everybody knew who natalia was. 375 00:17:46,370 --> 00:17:48,310 I have goosebumps just thinking about 376 00:17:48,510 --> 00:17:49,830 When they walked in with her. 377 00:17:50,030 --> 00:17:51,550 It was amazing. 378 00:17:52,510 --> 00:17:54,170 It was so uplifting 379 00:17:54,370 --> 00:17:55,900 To know that this little girl needed a home 380 00:17:56,100 --> 00:17:57,690 And they opened theirs up to her. 381 00:17:57,890 --> 00:17:59,830 - Hi, natalia. - Hi! 382 00:18:00,030 --> 00:18:03,380 And kristine was smiling, you know, ear-To-Ear. 383 00:18:03,580 --> 00:18:06,240 They were so excited. They have three boys, and they got a girl. 384 00:18:09,930 --> 00:18:11,830 I was looking forward to seeing how 385 00:18:12,030 --> 00:18:14,000 She'd react to the park we had across the street. 386 00:18:19,270 --> 00:18:20,820 Here's their yearbook. 387 00:18:22,750 --> 00:18:24,380 So, there's ethan 388 00:18:24,580 --> 00:18:26,170 And there's grace. 389 00:18:26,370 --> 00:18:27,580 Natalia came to our house a lot 390 00:18:27,780 --> 00:18:28,900 To play with my daughter grace 391 00:18:29,100 --> 00:18:33,170 Because they were both six. 392 00:18:33,370 --> 00:18:34,650 First grade. 393 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:36,820 Here's natalia. 394 00:18:39,510 --> 00:18:40,820 It's crazy. 395 00:18:41,510 --> 00:18:43,000 She's so cute in that picture. 396 00:18:43,750 --> 00:18:45,550 She looks like a sweet little girl. 397 00:18:46,930 --> 00:18:49,070 Once we got back to indiana, 398 00:18:49,270 --> 00:18:51,520 At first, there was a lot of acceptance 399 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:56,000 Of the situation with natalia and the pubic hair. 400 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:59,650 All that mattered was there's a little girl... 401 00:19:00,750 --> 00:19:03,000 That needs love and needs a home. 402 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:06,900 But, uh, eventually, 403 00:19:07,100 --> 00:19:08,900 We had a lot of escalation going on 404 00:19:09,100 --> 00:19:10,960 In the first few months that we had her. 405 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,240 There was a day i came home from work. 406 00:19:15,170 --> 00:19:17,000 Kristine's got a pair of natalia's underwear. 407 00:19:18,170 --> 00:19:20,930 Kristine asked natalia to tell me what's going on. 408 00:19:25,270 --> 00:19:26,340 Okay. 409 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:30,830 And i can remember her physicalness at the time. 410 00:19:31,030 --> 00:19:32,930 Her hands were just out in front of her like this. 411 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:35,480 She said, "well..." 412 00:19:37,170 --> 00:19:39,270 "... I have a period..." 413 00:19:39,470 --> 00:19:42,680 "... And i've been hiding it." 414 00:19:48,930 --> 00:19:50,440 And i... 415 00:19:51,860 --> 00:19:53,960 I just don't know what's going on right now. 416 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,380 Kris found some socks 417 00:20:00,580 --> 00:20:02,380 That she had used in her underwear 418 00:20:02,580 --> 00:20:04,000 And threw them out the window. 419 00:20:04,750 --> 00:20:07,520 Kris was just mortified. 420 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:11,170 She said, "this isn't normal. What have i gotten myself into?" 421 00:20:11,370 --> 00:20:14,170 And so i said, "you need to start finding out how old she is." 422 00:20:15,620 --> 00:20:18,760 I heard she had pubic hair when they first got her 423 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:21,480 And that they found, like, period underwear 424 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:23,070 Hidden in her room. 425 00:20:23,270 --> 00:20:24,690 So that would be the thing that, 426 00:20:24,890 --> 00:20:26,900 As, you know, not a doctor, as a layman, 427 00:20:27,100 --> 00:20:29,550 I'd be like, "yeah, that's definitely not a 6-Year-Old." 428 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:33,070 - Stand up. - Okay. 429 00:20:33,270 --> 00:20:34,760 After we'd first gotten natalia 430 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:36,170 And we started taking her to doctors, 431 00:20:36,370 --> 00:20:38,070 Within two months of getting her, 432 00:20:38,270 --> 00:20:41,380 Natalia needed foot surgery because of her condition. 433 00:20:41,580 --> 00:20:43,000 Natalia has a very rare form of dwarfism, 434 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:44,900 Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia. 435 00:20:45,100 --> 00:20:48,170 There's only about 3,400 people like that on this planet, 436 00:20:48,370 --> 00:20:50,790 - We were explained by doctors. - Mmm-Hmm. 437 00:20:50,990 --> 00:20:53,340 It just so happened, miraculously, 438 00:20:54,270 --> 00:20:55,900 That a doctor knew 439 00:20:56,100 --> 00:20:59,380 Another 6-Year-Old girl with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia 440 00:20:59,580 --> 00:21:00,750 Living in indiana. 441 00:21:01,930 --> 00:21:03,170 We were stunned. 442 00:21:04,100 --> 00:21:05,830 We're gonna have her meet and interact 443 00:21:06,030 --> 00:21:07,930 With somebody just like her. 444 00:21:08,270 --> 00:21:09,900 How great is that? 445 00:21:10,100 --> 00:21:11,750 The other girl comes in 446 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,070 And, for lack of a better term, 447 00:21:16,270 --> 00:21:17,830 Natalia is gigantic 448 00:21:18,030 --> 00:21:19,750 Compared to this other girl. 449 00:21:24,170 --> 00:21:26,060 Their cranial structures are different. 450 00:21:27,270 --> 00:21:29,650 Natalia, she's got the full forehead of an adult, 451 00:21:29,850 --> 00:21:31,960 She's got the fine cheekbones of an adult. 452 00:21:33,750 --> 00:21:36,680 The other girl, her head is not developed at all. 453 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:39,310 There's no way anybody could look at this picture 454 00:21:39,510 --> 00:21:41,820 And say, "those two are the same age." 455 00:21:42,930 --> 00:21:45,520 So, when natalia sees this person 456 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:47,750 That should be close to the mirror image of her 457 00:21:48,270 --> 00:21:51,790 And realizes we see it, 458 00:21:51,990 --> 00:21:54,440 Suddenly, she fills her cheeks with air, 459 00:21:55,270 --> 00:21:56,650 Blows them out a little bit 460 00:21:56,850 --> 00:21:59,270 So the definition in her cheekbones disappears, 461 00:21:59,470 --> 00:22:03,170 So that starts to happen. 462 00:22:04,100 --> 00:22:07,680 We literally see her head change. 463 00:22:10,930 --> 00:22:13,580 It's almost like, "you got me." 464 00:22:22,580 --> 00:22:24,790 My name is elva reyes. 465 00:22:24,990 --> 00:22:26,270 My daughter's name is therese. 466 00:22:26,470 --> 00:22:28,580 Uh, she has diastrophic dysplasia, 467 00:22:28,780 --> 00:22:30,270 The same as natalia. 468 00:22:30,470 --> 00:22:32,830 I was hoping, you know, that, uh, 469 00:22:33,030 --> 00:22:35,170 A long friendship, you know, 470 00:22:35,370 --> 00:22:37,070 Where they can grow up and, 471 00:22:37,270 --> 00:22:38,380 You know, she has somebody 472 00:22:38,580 --> 00:22:40,760 To be able to talk about things. 473 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:42,170 That mean it's not, you know, 474 00:22:42,370 --> 00:22:44,760 Something that she has to feel like 475 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:46,650 She's the only one in the world. 476 00:22:46,850 --> 00:22:49,830 Uh, but, later on, when we met for the playday, 477 00:22:50,030 --> 00:22:51,650 Immediately, natalia looks... 478 00:22:51,850 --> 00:22:53,270 Physically, was really well developed. 479 00:22:53,470 --> 00:22:55,790 My first impression was like, 480 00:22:55,990 --> 00:22:58,790 "your face doesn't look like a little kid." 481 00:22:58,990 --> 00:23:00,650 Can't really say an adult, 482 00:23:00,850 --> 00:23:02,340 But at least a teenager. 483 00:23:04,890 --> 00:23:07,580 And i say, "huh, so..." 484 00:23:07,780 --> 00:23:10,070 Yes, but... And she was very vocal, talking, 485 00:23:10,270 --> 00:23:11,340 You know, like, 486 00:23:12,580 --> 00:23:14,270 She can carry a conversation very well, 487 00:23:14,470 --> 00:23:16,000 Like, didn't have no issue. 488 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:18,830 I was like, "wow, they teach her very good english." 489 00:23:19,030 --> 00:23:21,270 A very smart kid for a 6-Year-Old. 490 00:23:26,890 --> 00:23:28,480 I am therese 491 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:30,440 And i am 14 years old. 492 00:23:32,270 --> 00:23:35,240 I was six years old when i met natalia. 493 00:23:36,580 --> 00:23:38,380 It's pretty rare to see someone 494 00:23:38,580 --> 00:23:40,170 Who has a disability like me 495 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,480 And i wanted to be friends. 496 00:23:53,860 --> 00:23:55,860 - I have a picture of you guys. - Mmm-Hmm. 497 00:23:58,410 --> 00:23:59,650 Sure. 498 00:24:04,100 --> 00:24:07,380 Definitely, i don't think she looked the same age as me. 499 00:24:07,580 --> 00:24:10,310 I definitely had that baby look to my face and, 500 00:24:10,510 --> 00:24:13,480 As she kinda gave me, like, 501 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,650 An older kinda face look to it, 502 00:24:16,850 --> 00:24:17,930 But, yeah. 503 00:24:22,890 --> 00:24:24,380 I think she definitely looks like 504 00:24:24,580 --> 00:24:28,960 She's at least 18, 20-Ish. 505 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,830 It definitely looks weird to think that 506 00:24:34,030 --> 00:24:36,650 I was playing with, actually, an adult, 507 00:24:36,850 --> 00:24:38,580 Not a kid my age 508 00:24:38,780 --> 00:24:40,650 That i would feel comfortable with. 509 00:24:41,860 --> 00:24:44,000 If she faked her age, 510 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,270 I feel like that's weird to think that 511 00:24:46,470 --> 00:24:48,580 I was around someone who did that. 512 00:24:51,930 --> 00:24:53,170 She's not six. 513 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,060 We had no idea what we were dealing with. 514 00:24:57,170 --> 00:24:59,270 To them, it would've looked like 515 00:24:59,470 --> 00:25:00,900 They brought their little girl 516 00:25:01,100 --> 00:25:02,820 To a playdate with a grownup. 517 00:25:04,750 --> 00:25:07,680 And they never reached back out again. 518 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,900 Natalia told us very little about her time 519 00:25:21,100 --> 00:25:22,650 Growing up in the ukraine, 520 00:25:23,170 --> 00:25:25,310 Her time in the orphanage. 521 00:25:26,860 --> 00:25:29,480 I don't recall her having 522 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:31,270 Any belongings from the orphanage. 523 00:25:31,470 --> 00:25:35,380 Like, uh, i don't recall her having any ukrainian toys. 524 00:25:35,580 --> 00:25:37,860 She didn't seem to know very much about ukraine. 525 00:25:38,060 --> 00:25:40,860 Like, uh, at one point, early, we asked her, like, 526 00:25:41,060 --> 00:25:42,860 "oh, what's it like in ukraine?" 527 00:25:43,060 --> 00:25:45,000 And she said, "oh, it's always summer there." and i'm like... 528 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:48,140 "hmm, okay, uh..." 529 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:57,440 I forget the part that you guys never hear. 530 00:26:00,580 --> 00:26:02,030 Yeah. Heard. 531 00:26:06,030 --> 00:26:07,380 We adopted natalia 532 00:26:07,580 --> 00:26:09,860 Because we wanted to help somebody 533 00:26:10,060 --> 00:26:13,650 Who was in danger of never being loved. 534 00:26:15,270 --> 00:26:18,170 But every time we ever spoke to natalia about, 535 00:26:18,370 --> 00:26:20,380 "hey, tell us about the orphanage, 536 00:26:20,580 --> 00:26:22,200 Tell us about people you've known," 537 00:26:24,370 --> 00:26:25,620 Nothing. 538 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,030 So we had asked her about the ukrainian language before. 539 00:26:29,230 --> 00:26:30,900 As a matter of fact, at the rec center 540 00:26:31,100 --> 00:26:33,790 Where we had our sports league for the autistic kids, 541 00:26:33,990 --> 00:26:35,380 One of the neighboring tenants 542 00:26:35,580 --> 00:26:36,790 Happens to know somebody 543 00:26:36,990 --> 00:26:39,440 Who was born and raised in the ukraine. 544 00:26:40,860 --> 00:26:43,030 We thought, "how wonderful would it be 545 00:26:43,230 --> 00:26:45,580 For you to hear your native language, your native tongue 546 00:26:45,780 --> 00:26:48,480 For the first time in a couple of years?" 547 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:50,100 The woman from the ukraine comes in 548 00:26:51,130 --> 00:26:54,200 And just immediately starts speaking ukrainian. 549 00:26:56,340 --> 00:26:57,900 I swear on all things holy, 550 00:26:58,100 --> 00:27:00,930 Natalia's never heard a word of ukrainian in her life. 551 00:27:01,580 --> 00:27:03,960 But you were there until almost five 552 00:27:05,270 --> 00:27:07,860 And we've got you at six. 553 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,820 There was like a set of things that didn't add up. 554 00:27:14,130 --> 00:27:18,000 We starter... Started early in the morning. 555 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,690 Natalia had no accent. 556 00:27:20,890 --> 00:27:24,270 Were going close. 557 00:27:24,470 --> 00:27:26,550 She didn't know the cyrillic alphabet. 558 00:27:27,130 --> 00:27:29,030 She knew no ukrainian. 559 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:33,750 Ukrainian lady starts speaking ukrainian to natalia. 560 00:27:34,370 --> 00:27:35,550 Not a word. 561 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:38,960 I think she knew, if she spoke immediately, 562 00:27:39,580 --> 00:27:40,930 That we'd put two and two together 563 00:27:41,130 --> 00:27:43,930 And hear there's no accent. 564 00:27:44,130 --> 00:27:46,000 She doesn't know this. 565 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:47,820 Didn't speak a word for four days. 566 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,930 It's almost like the jig is up, 567 00:27:52,130 --> 00:27:54,960 The little playful kid face goes away 568 00:27:55,580 --> 00:27:56,820 And now we've got... 569 00:28:01,790 --> 00:28:03,310 We don't know who she is. 570 00:28:04,370 --> 00:28:06,270 We don't know where she's really from. 571 00:28:06,470 --> 00:28:08,480 For all i know, she had been living in the ukraine for 20 years 572 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:09,900 And found a way out. 573 00:28:10,100 --> 00:28:11,790 For all i know, she's an american citizen 574 00:28:11,990 --> 00:28:14,030 That somehow got this to happen. 575 00:28:14,230 --> 00:28:17,440 I truly, truly don't know. 576 00:28:26,580 --> 00:28:30,580 The dynamic between natalia and the rest of the family seemed to shift. 577 00:28:30,780 --> 00:28:33,860 Pretty early, there was a lack of trust. 578 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:35,650 Uh... 579 00:28:36,790 --> 00:28:39,200 So that, you know, compounded. 580 00:28:48,270 --> 00:28:51,960 Natalia did have behavioral issues which... 581 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,550 Certainly, the adoption process, um, 582 00:28:57,370 --> 00:28:58,860 It must be traumatic. 583 00:28:59,060 --> 00:29:00,480 I mean, abandonment issues are a thing 584 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:05,000 And natalia was abandoned multiple times. 585 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,140 She was with another family in america 586 00:29:08,340 --> 00:29:09,550 Before she came with us. 587 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:13,240 Natalia was with us four months, 588 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:18,650 And that's when we start to witness her dark side. 589 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:22,760 We had a 2007 jeep commander. 590 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:24,000 It has three rows of seats. 591 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:25,580 But natalia always tried 592 00:29:25,780 --> 00:29:27,580 To sit next to my youngest, the smallest, 593 00:29:27,780 --> 00:29:29,480 My 6-Year-Old, ethan. 594 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:33,690 And she would do whatever she could to upset him. 595 00:29:33,890 --> 00:29:37,580 She would purposely wait until she was next to him in the car 596 00:29:37,780 --> 00:29:40,410 And then she would do her best to urinate on him. 597 00:29:41,100 --> 00:29:42,580 She would defecate in the car 598 00:29:42,780 --> 00:29:44,000 And put her hand into it 599 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:45,690 And try to smear it on ethan. 600 00:29:45,890 --> 00:29:48,690 Yeah, it was a frequent occurrence 601 00:29:48,890 --> 00:29:52,000 For natalia to soil surfaces 602 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:53,750 That she wasn't supposed to. 603 00:30:00,370 --> 00:30:02,930 That was the life my 6-Year-Old son had. 604 00:30:03,130 --> 00:30:07,000 To get into the car was like going through the haunted house. 605 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:10,930 And, you know, another thing, 606 00:30:11,130 --> 00:30:12,380 If we went someplace in public 607 00:30:12,580 --> 00:30:14,380 And she made eye contact with somebody 608 00:30:14,580 --> 00:30:16,000 We'd climb into the car, 609 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,270 She would get into the car, she'd get in her seat, 610 00:30:18,470 --> 00:30:20,140 She'd close the door. 611 00:30:20,340 --> 00:30:22,690 As soon as i would start to get into my seat 612 00:30:22,890 --> 00:30:24,580 And the car would get into gear, 613 00:30:24,780 --> 00:30:27,380 Doors open and she's throwing herself out of the vehicle 614 00:30:27,580 --> 00:30:29,440 So people around her can see. 615 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,270 The idea, "look, a poor, helpless little girl." 616 00:30:36,470 --> 00:30:38,140 And she was trying to get back 617 00:30:38,340 --> 00:30:40,550 To poor, helpless little girl status. 618 00:30:43,370 --> 00:30:45,580 She was doing as many things as possible 619 00:30:45,780 --> 00:30:47,930 To cause hurt of harm 620 00:30:48,130 --> 00:30:50,380 Or mental distress to the entire family. 621 00:30:50,580 --> 00:30:53,580 She's been with us for about five or six months at this point, 622 00:30:53,780 --> 00:30:56,650 And at this time, my boys are six, nine and 11. 623 00:30:57,790 --> 00:31:01,690 Natalia would find things that were important to them, 624 00:31:01,890 --> 00:31:03,380 Like a hot wheel car, 625 00:31:03,580 --> 00:31:06,790 She'd hide them, she'd wait to be crossing the street, 626 00:31:06,990 --> 00:31:09,440 She would throw 'em into the street and make sure the boys saw it. 627 00:31:09,890 --> 00:31:11,930 She was baiting my kids 628 00:31:12,130 --> 00:31:14,170 To run into traffic so they'd get run over. 629 00:31:16,580 --> 00:31:18,000 I can't put into words 630 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,480 The everyday abject horror 631 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:23,200 That we had to go through and live with. 632 00:31:26,030 --> 00:31:28,240 And there certainly was, like, a lot of fear. 633 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:34,550 Like, "what if natalia actually harms one of us?" 634 00:31:37,790 --> 00:31:41,650 Couple of weeks after that, i came home from work. 635 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:44,480 She had been taking knives out of the kitchen 636 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:46,820 And hiding them in her room under her bed. 637 00:31:49,170 --> 00:31:50,760 I go upstairs. 638 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:52,380 Kristine has the knife. 639 00:31:52,580 --> 00:31:54,550 It was a big butcher knife. 640 00:31:56,860 --> 00:31:59,790 Natalia was hoarding knives in her room 641 00:31:59,990 --> 00:32:02,030 And had, like, intentions to attack us. 642 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,410 I asked natalia, "natalia, 643 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:10,000 Did you have this under your bed?" 644 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:11,650 "yes." 645 00:32:14,170 --> 00:32:15,750 "what were you gonna do with it?" 646 00:32:17,030 --> 00:32:19,820 "i'm going to kill you in your sleep." 647 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:33,790 Michael and kristine weren't very vocal 648 00:32:33,990 --> 00:32:37,030 About this stuff at first with natalia 649 00:32:37,790 --> 00:32:40,620 Until it got overwhelming, 650 00:32:41,370 --> 00:32:44,790 And that's when kristine came and told me 651 00:32:44,990 --> 00:32:46,650 And sat down on my front porch 652 00:32:47,580 --> 00:32:48,960 With wesley and ethan 653 00:32:49,580 --> 00:32:51,750 And shared what was going on. 654 00:32:53,370 --> 00:32:54,690 Kristine was crying. 655 00:32:54,890 --> 00:32:56,070 She was very upset, 656 00:32:56,270 --> 00:32:58,960 Saying that natalia wasn't 657 00:33:00,060 --> 00:33:02,240 Who they thought she was. 658 00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,450 And i said, "well, what do you mean?" 659 00:33:05,650 --> 00:33:06,690 And she said... 660 00:33:09,340 --> 00:33:10,750 "knives." 661 00:33:11,890 --> 00:33:13,240 She had knives in her room. 662 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:16,960 The boys were like, "yeah. Yeah. 663 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,380 This is really happening. Yeah. 664 00:33:19,580 --> 00:33:21,240 This is... Natalia's really doing that," 665 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,750 This is the time when i backed away from them 666 00:33:25,370 --> 00:33:28,690 Because i was just in so much shock 667 00:33:28,890 --> 00:33:30,340 From hearing this story. 668 00:33:30,540 --> 00:33:33,450 I went to grace and said, 669 00:33:33,650 --> 00:33:35,900 "you know what? We need to find some new friends to play with," 670 00:33:36,100 --> 00:33:38,410 'cause i didn't wanna have anything to do with that little girl. 671 00:33:39,890 --> 00:33:41,650 I didn't wanna have anything to do with her. 672 00:33:42,270 --> 00:33:44,240 She wasn't welcome in our house. 673 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:46,340 I didn't want her to try killing my daughter or me. 674 00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:58,240 Michael really only told me 675 00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:00,690 By the time they'd gone through all these things 676 00:34:00,890 --> 00:34:02,750 That he was afraid. 677 00:34:03,790 --> 00:34:05,030 Whether that meant he was 678 00:34:05,230 --> 00:34:08,340 Afraid of what she would do or could do, 679 00:34:08,540 --> 00:34:09,790 Or any of that, 680 00:34:09,990 --> 00:34:12,030 I knew that there was fear. 681 00:34:14,170 --> 00:34:16,900 Absolutely, we reached out to the adoption agency 682 00:34:17,100 --> 00:34:20,130 As we were noticing all of these issues and irregularities. 683 00:34:21,170 --> 00:34:22,410 They were unhelpful. 684 00:34:23,890 --> 00:34:25,270 I was lost. 685 00:34:25,470 --> 00:34:27,580 I was getting no help from anybody anywhere. 686 00:34:27,780 --> 00:34:29,960 So we went through a few therapists, 687 00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:31,580 Trying to find guidance, 688 00:34:31,780 --> 00:34:33,410 Trying to figure out the right diagnosis. 689 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:35,410 Go inside. 690 00:34:37,270 --> 00:34:39,790 It was really the third or fourth therapist we got to 691 00:34:39,990 --> 00:34:43,960 That seemed to understand what we were telling them 692 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:45,480 And seemed to have natalia's number. 693 00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:47,750 She pulled kristine and i aside and said, 694 00:34:49,270 --> 00:34:51,510 "you're all in extreme danger." 695 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:55,130 At that point in time, we already knew that. 696 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:57,440 We had been living that. 697 00:34:58,580 --> 00:35:01,930 So we were not stunned at the danger, 698 00:35:02,130 --> 00:35:03,650 But we were stunned at the diagnosis. 699 00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:07,240 We were expecting a severe mental disorder 700 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:08,690 That was out of her control. 701 00:35:08,890 --> 00:35:10,340 We were expecting schizophrenia. 702 00:35:10,890 --> 00:35:12,340 We were expecting something. 703 00:35:12,540 --> 00:35:14,380 We were expecting her to say, "she hears voices. 704 00:35:14,580 --> 00:35:17,240 She's hearing commands telling her to do this stuff." 705 00:35:18,550 --> 00:35:20,750 So she tells us, "she's a sociopath. 706 00:35:25,790 --> 00:35:28,510 She does things that you and i would consider crazy. 707 00:35:29,370 --> 00:35:30,690 But it's a plan. 708 00:35:30,890 --> 00:35:31,930 She knows what she's doing. 709 00:35:32,130 --> 00:35:33,960 She's in control of doing it. 710 00:35:34,790 --> 00:35:37,580 It's not a diagnosis where she's out of control 711 00:35:37,780 --> 00:35:38,930 And she can really be helped. 712 00:35:39,130 --> 00:35:41,340 She's a sociopath." 713 00:35:43,170 --> 00:35:45,620 That was the first moment from a clinician that we heard, 714 00:35:46,790 --> 00:35:48,690 "you can't help here." 715 00:35:48,890 --> 00:35:50,960 You're 12 years old and you're... 716 00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:52,690 You know, just down the hallway is, 717 00:35:52,890 --> 00:35:54,140 Is someone who's living with you 718 00:35:54,340 --> 00:35:55,790 Who actively wants to harm you. That's very, 719 00:35:55,990 --> 00:35:58,960 That's a very scary feeling. 720 00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,200 And i definitely didn't feel safe around natalia. 721 00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,410 I just was scared. 722 00:36:11,060 --> 00:36:12,510 There was one night, 723 00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:15,200 About two o'clock in the morning, 724 00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:16,960 We hear a noise. 725 00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,140 Kristine nudges me and wakes me up. 726 00:36:21,340 --> 00:36:23,380 And i jump up, i go looking for the noise, 727 00:36:23,580 --> 00:36:25,900 Can't find it here, i can't find it there, 728 00:36:26,100 --> 00:36:28,510 I go down the hall to natalia's room, open the door. 729 00:36:31,270 --> 00:36:32,510 It's dark. 730 00:36:34,060 --> 00:36:36,550 She's standing dead-Center in the middle of the room 731 00:36:37,790 --> 00:36:39,900 With a blank look on her face. 732 00:36:40,100 --> 00:36:42,860 "natalia, what are you doing?" 733 00:36:45,240 --> 00:36:46,510 "i'm waiting." 734 00:36:49,890 --> 00:36:51,410 "waiting for what?" 735 00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:54,860 "for you to go to sleep." 736 00:37:00,580 --> 00:37:01,790 It was absolutely shocking 737 00:37:01,990 --> 00:37:06,340 To hear that an adopted child 738 00:37:06,540 --> 00:37:10,480 Was threatening the lives of her siblings and her parents. 739 00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:12,860 I mean, it was really disturbing to hear. 740 00:37:16,370 --> 00:37:19,790 One night, asleep in bed, everything's fine, 741 00:37:19,990 --> 00:37:22,170 I hear a little noise, i open my eyes, 742 00:37:22,370 --> 00:37:24,510 And natalia's standing at the foot of the bed 743 00:37:25,170 --> 00:37:26,620 With a knife in her hand. 744 00:37:29,340 --> 00:37:30,960 What's going on? 745 00:37:31,790 --> 00:37:34,440 How much danger are we really in here? 746 00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:38,240 Was i about to die? What kristine about to die? 747 00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:39,100 Were my kids about to die? 748 00:37:44,580 --> 00:37:46,000 I open my eyes, 749 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,820 And natalia's standing at the foot of the bed 750 00:37:49,370 --> 00:37:50,620 With a knife in her hand. 751 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:53,900 No idea what she's thinking. 752 00:37:54,100 --> 00:37:55,960 No idea what's going through her head. 753 00:37:58,000 --> 00:37:59,440 I'm frozen. 754 00:38:00,270 --> 00:38:03,410 "natalia, what are you doing?" 755 00:38:04,580 --> 00:38:05,720 "nothing." 756 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:09,340 "why are you in here?" 757 00:38:10,650 --> 00:38:11,760 "i don't know." 758 00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:14,510 There's just this blank look. 759 00:38:15,100 --> 00:38:16,550 There's no emotion. 760 00:38:16,750 --> 00:38:18,900 There's no feeling going through her. 761 00:38:19,100 --> 00:38:20,440 It's just this blankness. 762 00:38:21,340 --> 00:38:22,930 "i don't know what i'm doing here." 763 00:38:23,650 --> 00:38:25,440 "natalia, put that down right now." 764 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:27,240 And she did. 765 00:38:28,170 --> 00:38:29,790 "natalia, go to your room right now." 766 00:38:29,990 --> 00:38:31,310 And she did. 767 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:37,340 But, obviously, i sat outside her door for the rest of the night 768 00:38:38,060 --> 00:38:40,170 To make sure she didn't come out, 769 00:38:40,370 --> 00:38:41,960 She didn't emerge, something didn't happen. 770 00:38:48,650 --> 00:38:49,960 Knowing that, 771 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,060 That somebody like natalia 772 00:38:54,060 --> 00:38:56,270 Was living two doors down from me 773 00:38:56,470 --> 00:38:59,820 And has, supposedly, 774 00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,170 Tried to kill her family, 775 00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,270 Thinking that there's a killer in my neighborhood 776 00:39:06,470 --> 00:39:08,440 Is mind-Blowing, 777 00:39:09,170 --> 00:39:10,510 Just mind-Blowing. 778 00:39:11,240 --> 00:39:12,820 You think you know everybody. 779 00:39:13,890 --> 00:39:16,070 You've lived here for so long. 780 00:39:16,270 --> 00:39:19,340 You don't know everybody. You don't know anybody. You don't know anything. 781 00:39:21,990 --> 00:39:24,340 But it's scary. It's very scary. 782 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,310 So, we start going through lots of therapy. 783 00:39:30,860 --> 00:39:33,450 The cat was so heavy, 784 00:39:33,650 --> 00:39:36,580 I couldn't even lift it. 785 00:39:36,780 --> 00:39:38,960 You start going through plausible deniability. 786 00:39:39,650 --> 00:39:41,550 You start to try to convince yourself 787 00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:44,340 She wasn't meaning to harm us. 788 00:39:45,240 --> 00:39:46,790 This might seem strange. 789 00:39:46,990 --> 00:39:49,580 We never, ever 790 00:39:49,780 --> 00:39:51,000 Said, "let's take her back." 791 00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:52,650 We thought we could help things. 792 00:39:52,850 --> 00:39:54,310 We thought we could improve things. 793 00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:05,240 We wake up one morning and natalia is suddenly in happy, 794 00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:07,760 "i wanna be part of the family" mode again. 795 00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:10,900 And she asks kristine, "is there anything i can do to help? 796 00:40:11,100 --> 00:40:13,170 You're doing the dishes. Can i help do the dishes?" 797 00:40:14,170 --> 00:40:17,000 So kristine says, "sure. I'd really appreciate that. 798 00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:18,340 Thank you, natalia." 799 00:40:18,890 --> 00:40:20,450 So natalia gets on a stool 800 00:40:20,650 --> 00:40:23,270 And starts rinsing the dishes off in the sink. 801 00:40:23,470 --> 00:40:25,070 Kristine goes to the other room for a moment 802 00:40:25,270 --> 00:40:28,060 And she's got a coffee cup sitting on the counter. 803 00:40:28,890 --> 00:40:30,440 Kristine comes back in. 804 00:40:32,240 --> 00:40:34,060 Kristine screams. 805 00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:37,130 I come racing downstairs. 806 00:40:38,240 --> 00:40:39,790 I see a bottle of pledge. 807 00:40:39,990 --> 00:40:41,450 I see kristine's coffee cup, 808 00:40:41,650 --> 00:40:43,000 And kristine tried to drink it 809 00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:45,130 And instantly tasted pledge. 810 00:40:47,270 --> 00:40:50,130 Cleaning supplies had been poured into kristine's coffee cup. 811 00:40:50,890 --> 00:40:53,270 Kristine is screaming at her, 812 00:40:53,470 --> 00:40:55,410 "natalia, why did you do this?" 813 00:40:58,270 --> 00:41:00,790 And she just says, plain old, straight out, 814 00:41:00,990 --> 00:41:02,930 "i'm trying to kill you. I'm trying to poison you." 815 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:08,930 Yeah, i certainly have that, uh, instinct now, like, uh, 816 00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:12,760 I can't really share a drink with someone 817 00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,240 Unless i've, you know, 818 00:41:16,100 --> 00:41:19,140 Seen the surface of it the entire time. 819 00:41:19,340 --> 00:41:22,650 Well, it's probably rooted in this fear 820 00:41:22,850 --> 00:41:26,060 That natalia's coming to, 821 00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:30,030 Like, poison us. 822 00:41:31,860 --> 00:41:34,550 I guess i haven't really figured out a way to reconcile it, 823 00:41:34,750 --> 00:41:36,380 If i'm being honest. 824 00:41:36,580 --> 00:41:37,930 I'm still working through it. 825 00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:43,410 I think i might need a minute. I'm sorry. 826 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:53,750 Natalia, what are you doing? 827 00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:56,720 What is it? 828 00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:00,620 Why? 829 00:42:02,860 --> 00:42:04,170 Like what thoughts? 830 00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:10,370 What happens when you have them? 57343

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