Kristine Barnett is talking out after the discharge of “The Curious Case of Natalia Grace,” an ID docuseries investigating claims made by Kristine and her now-ex-husband Michael Barnett that their adopted daughter was secretly an grownup girl with dwarfism who was attempting to kill them.
The Barnetts adopted Natalia Grace in 2010, a toddler they believed was 6 years outdated and initially from Ukraine, taking her to their Indiana house the place they lived with their three sons.
Over the following variety of years, the previous couple claimed they noticed a number of particulars that made them query Natalia’s age — they declare she had pubic hair and was menstruating at an abnormally younger age, they are saying she could not perceive Ukrainian and was a lot bigger in stature than a buddy of the same age with the identical situation. Additionally they declare she started to threaten to hurt their household.
By 2012, they efficiently petitioned an Indiana court docket to legally change her age from eight to 22 years outdated, regardless of a skeletal survey performed by a neighborhood youngsters’s hospital which concluded that she was about 11.
The Barnetts moved Natalia into an house to reside alone earlier than packing up and transferring to Canada the place they finally divorced.
However, amid the discharge of the docuseries, which Kristine didn’t partake in, she is talking out to defend herself.
The place is Kristine Barnett now?
Kristine Barnett is now residing in Florida.
Court docket paperwork obtained by The Exponent listing Kristine as residing in Florida.
Whereas an investigation did result in each Michael and Kristine being charged with neglecting a dependant, their costs have been dropped in late 2022 and early 2023 respectively.
Picture: Tippecanoe County Jail
Kristine Barnett has taken to Fb to defend her therapy of Natalia.
Kristine, who doesn’t communicate within the docuseries that accuses her of abusing Natalia claims that she is the one one that noticed Natalia’s true self — an grownup with a incapacity who was able to residing a full life alone.
“I do really feel I used to be the one one who actually noticed Natalia as a succesful lovely human being inside the bundle I used to be introduced and what she was going by. She was battling identification for who [knows] what number of causes. It even made her violent. However I’ll say that every one I did is what I at all times do – see a succesful lovely particular person,” she wrote in a Fb put up on Might 28.
“The saddest factor right here is how dwarfism is being portrayed. The concept the media will even use individuals with quick stature to attempt to perpetuate present day concepts that quick persons are youngsters or must reside in doll homes which are miniature or can’t make their very own medical selections or operate in the true world is horrible. I by no means noticed Natalia as any completely different than anybody,” she continued.
Picture: ID
Within the docuseries, Michael Barnett claims his spouse compelled her adoptive daughter to face on the wall for hours till she dirty herself and admits they made Natalia sleep outdoors on the deck as punishment.
In her Fb put up, Kristine goes on to insist that Natalia was an grownup and she or he wished to deal with her as such. She additionally feedback on The Mans household, Antwon Mans and Cynthia Mans who legally adopted Natalia in 2016.
“We went to court docket with medical proof and prevented them from turning into her guardians preventing for her proper to make her personal selections and we gained. That isn’t ‘deserted’ that’s involved and actively attempting to assist. They aren’t her authorized ‘dad and mom.'”
She additional claims that it was the State who deserted Natalia by not having sufficient providers for her.
Kristine Barnett additionally addressed the usage of her non-public pictures within the docuseries.
Michael Barnett, who does seem within the docuseries, makes use of the manufacturing to deflect many of the blame onto his former spouse, even suggesting she used intercourse as manipulation.
Kristine additionally alludes to this inclusion in a Might 31 Fb put up.
The quantity of male curiosity that has all of a sudden appeared is overwhelming. However the backside line is (and take heed to this one Investigation Discovery).
“Pictures of me in sexually compromising positions from non-public conversations ought to have consent to be shared. I didn’t consent to sharing these and I don’t respect my household and mates being uncovered to my non-public intercourse life,” she writes.
Kristine additionally addresses her newfound male admirers telling them, “No I can’t date you.”
Alice Kelly is YourTango’s Deputy Information and Leisure Editor. Primarily based in Brooklyn, New York, her work covers all issues crime, social justice, popular culture, and human curiosity.
