Natalia has reportedly been found living with another Indiana couple, Antwon and Cynthia Mans, and their five children
Photo: Tippecanoe County Jail Before impeachment took over the world’s newsfeeds, a way nuttier story was on our minds last week: a possible real-life version of the movie Orphan. Per a Daily Mail article from September 23, an “unsuspecting Christian couple” in Indiana, Michael and Kristine Barnett, had adopted “an adorable little girl only to discover she is an adult sociopath masquerading as a child.
Who are the Barnetts, and what have they been charged with? Kristine Barnett, 45, and her ex-husband Michael Barnett, 43, are the couple who adopted Natalia in May 2010 from a Florida adoption center and took her to their home in Indiana. In 2013, they abandoned her in the U.S. and moved to Canada, though Kristine insists she did so after discovering that Natalia was lying about being a child.
From 2013 to 2016, police say, the Barnetts did not support Natalia financially while she lived alone in an apartment in Lafayette, Indiana, and they lived in Canada, where they had moved so their other son, Jacob, could attend a specialized school. Jacob was diagnosed with autism at age 2 and has a genius-level IQ, and Kristine wrote a book about him called Spark in 2013.
Kristine Barnett says Natalia’s behavior became dangerous after her family doctor performed the bone-density test on her, which Barnett says showed she was “14 years old or older” .
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