Docuseries breaks new ground on mystery of true age of Ukrainian girl adopted and then abandoned by Indiana couple
– which aired from 29 to 31 May and is streaming on Max and Discovery+ – began brewing all the way back in 2010. That was when the Barnetts took on the responsibility of parenting Natalia believing she had been put up for adoption as a six-year-old who was originally from Ukraine with a rare bone growth disorder causing dwarfism.
The Barnetts recalled seeing Natalia menstruate, which in many cases doesn’t happen before the age of 12. And they noticed how she spoke English without an accent and couldn’t understand Ukrainian even though she supposedly wasn’t removed from Ukraine until she was five. Authorities soon began investigating Natalia’s case. In 2019, after about five years, prosecutors charged the Barnetts with neglect of a dependent.
The couple who took Natalia in after she was left in the Lafayette apartment, Anton and Cynthia Mans, stand up for her on the docuseries, saying she was a “genuine, loving” person and not at all the “adult sociopath masquerading as a child” that the Barnetts insist she was. The docuseries notably includes interviews with neighbors who had unflattering things to say about Natalia. One of them, Toby Miles, describes how Natalia once casually discussed standing over the Barnetts with a knife as well as trying to poison them. Miles alleges being told by Natalia that, as a consequence, the Barnetts hid all the knives in the home away from her and also forced her to live in the garage for a time.
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