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Natalia Grace is a Ukrainian-born American woman who was adopted in 2010 by an American couple, Kristin and Michael Barnett, in a closed adoption. The Florida-based adoption agency allegedly gave the Barnetts a Ukrainian-language birth certificate that stated her birth year as 2003, leading the couple to believe that Natalia was six years old.[1] According to the Barnetts, they began to suspect within days that Natalia was considerably older.[2]
In 2012 the couple successfully petitioned a Marion County, Indiana court to change Natalia's birth year from 2003 to 1989, legally revising her age as 21 or 22 at the time of her adoption by the Barnetts.[2][3] Natalia was born with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita, a rare medical condition that results in dwarfism.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Cases involving Kristine Barnett, Michael Barnett filled with twists and turns". Journal and Courier. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
- ^ a b c Celeste, Erika. "The Ukrainian orphan accused of being an adult hung out at a drug recovery house and took adult education classes after her adopted parents moved to Canada". Insider. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
- ^ "Prosecutors prepared to call Natalia Barnett's birth mother to prove Ukrainian orphan's age in neglect case". Journal and Courier. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
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