The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: What did Natalia Grace do to her adoptive parents?
Sarah Richards
Updated on December 31, 2025
According to claims made by Natalia Elegance’s previous adotive guardians, Michael and Kristine Barnett, who split up in 2014, Effortlessness was a grown-up acting like a six-year-old kid when they embraced her in 2010. She had “full pubic hair” at that age and was in any event, going through mestruation. They further guaranteed that Natalia took steps to wound their organic children and harmed the mother’s espresso trying to kill her.
The Barnetts, subsequent to understanding these indications throughout the long term after Natalia’s reception and her supposed dangers and numerous endeavors to hurt/kill them, had her legitimate age changed in 2012, preceding abandoning her alone in a loft and moving to Canada a year after the fact. They were even accused of disregard of a reliant following this however were ultimately vindicated of all charges.
The Inquisitive Instance of Natalia Elegance on ID further dives into Natalia Effortlessness’ story as her previous new parents focus on their supposed frightening involvement with the five-section docuseries. Episode 2 and 3 are booked to air on the channel this Tuesday, May 30. The outline says this:
Back in 2010, Michael Barnett and his significant other Kristine embraced six-year-old Natalia Effortlessness, a Ukrainian vagrant, from a Middle in Florida. The couple thought she had an uncommon bone improvement issue.
Presently, in ID’s most recent docuseries, The Inquisitive Instance of Natalia Effortlessness, the Barnetts insight concerning her upsetting way of behaving and examine the different signs that surfaced in the months after her reception, which proposed that she was more seasoned than their thought process. They guaranteed that Natalia was evidently a grown-up acting like a youngster and endeavoring to hurt the now-separated from couple and their natural kids.
In the wake of seeing various obvious signs that showed she was more seasoned, for example, “full pubic hair” at age six and period presently, as well as meeting a young lady with a similar condition as Natalia and acknowledging she was fundamentally more evolved, the couple apprently experienced other nerve racking encounters with the young lady.
The Barnetts have, on various events, examined that Natalia Elegance “took on the appearance of a youngster with plan to hurt them” in stunning disclosures and affirmed that she was really a 22-year-elderly person, guarantees that Natalia herself keeps on denying.
Michael has claimed that acting like a little kid, she “took steps to cut” her new receptive kin – the several’s three organic children. He likewise expressed that she attempted to “poison” Kristine, and that one evening, he woke him up to see Natalia “remaining at the foot of the bed with a blade in her grasp.” Besides, some other time, she put clear pushpins face-up on the steps for somebody to step on them.
In 2012, two years after Natalia’s reception, her assenting family effectively requested of the court to change her introduction to the world year from 2003 to 1989, accordingly expanding her age from eight to 22 years.
Watch “The Inquisitive Instance of Natalia Elegance” beginning Monday, May 29 at 9/8c on ID. #NataliaGrace
Throughout the long term, Natalia Beauty has constantly denied all cases and, surprisingly, showed up on Dr. Phil to explain her situatuion. During the meeting, she was shown a video of Kristine claiming that on one event, she attempted to splash dye into her supportive mother’s espresso, trying to posion it, while they were cleaning together. Natalia allegedly answered, saying,
“It was Lemon Vow for tables. We had overlooked a little something so what I did was I hurried the seat over so I could arrive and I hurried her espresso back so I could get the thing since it was before it.”
Further tending to the Barnett family’s charges about her being a grown-up, she expressed in the very interview that it was false by any means, and she believed individuals should hear her side of the story.
Lies, trickery, vivid characters, turned relational peculiarities and extraordinary declarations Watch “The Inquisitive Instance of Natalia Effortlessness” beginning Monday, May 29 at 9/8c on ID. #NataliaGrace
Was Natalia trying to harm her adoptive mother or was this a misunderstanding?
Watch “The Curious Case of Natalia Grace” starting Monday, May 29 at 9/8c on ID. #NataliaGrace— Investigation Discovery (@DiscoveryID) May 25, 2023
Reports express that in 2012, two years after Natalia’s reception, the Barnetts effectively appealed to the court to change her introduction to the world year from 2003 to 1989, consequently expanding her age from eight to 22 years. A while later, the family moved their embraced little girl, who was then lawfully 22 years of age, into a Lafayette condo and afterward moved to Canada.
Michael and, his now ex, Kristine were accused in September 2019 of various counts of disregard, and they were as of late cleared of the charges following a preliminary when he was viewed as not blameworthy. In Spring of this current year, the charges against Kristina were dropped.
More deeply study the bizarre instance of Natalia Beauty on ID’s most recent docuseries.