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A premiere date has lastly been determined upon for the a lot anticipated ID interview The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks — and she or he has A LOT to say.
In case you want a refresher, Ukrainian orphan Natalia Grace Barnett‘s story impressed the Warner Bros film sequence The Orphan, which follows the story of a grown lady pretending to be a younger woman so as to get adopted by a household. In the movies, the woman — named Esther — wreaks havoc upon the household and turns their lives right into a horror present. The actual story, nonetheless, is far completely different, in line with the woman who lived it.
Natalia was accused by her adoptive mother and father Michael and Kristine Barnett of being a grown lady once they adopted her. Her story first began making waves when her mother and father modified her birthdate to make her a lot older, underneath the idea that she was actually a grown lady in her 20s out to kill them. At the time, they have been arrested for little one neglect, however the costs have been dropped.
Now, the younger lady who’s believed to be in her 20s nowadays because of DNA exams and dental data, is lastly telling HER aspect of the story. And it’s a really, very unhappy one.
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In a preview obtained by TooFab, Natalia claims this complete factor began as a result of shortly after being adopted, Kristine seen the younger woman had pubic hair:
“The first night Kristine gave me a bath and she never mentioned anything to me about pubic hair or anything like that. I didn’t know what that was. I was 6, about to be 7, I didn’t know. I don’t know why they said what they’ve said. I don’t remember Michael ever coming into the bathroom. I just remember Kristine helping me get dressed and getting ready to go to bed. I don’t understand why the Barnetts would say I have public hair or anything like that. I didn’t start noticing any hair until I was like 7, almost 8. But that doesn’t mean that I’m this big monster. I was still a kid. Some kids start early, that’s what happens.”
How embarrassing! And what a wild conclusion to return to after studying your little one’s physique is creating!
In the interview, the younger lady additionally reacted to her adoptive father’s claims that she had began her interval however was “hiding” it. He as soon as stated she “wipes it up off the leg, eats it and licks it so nobody would ever find out” — to which Natalia was full of disgust to listen to about:
“That’s downright disgusting. That’s crazy. I’m gonna tell you what really happened. I was 7 years old and all of a sudden Kristine tried to convince me I was having my period. Kristine said, ‘You started your period,’ and she forced me to put the tampon in. And then I literally told her, ‘I can’t. I can’t do it, it hurts.’ But Kristine kept telling me, ‘You need to put it in.’ She made me do it, but I couldn’t. And she was mad, I remember that.”
Continuing on in tears, she claimed the “period blood” was truly simply from inner damage because of her adoptive mother attempting to drive a tampon within her:
“So when I was able to take it out, there was blood on it, because of the fact that I’m 7 years old. She said, ‘See, you had your period.’ And I couldn’t say anything about it. And it hurt so bad.”
Awful…
In one other a part of the docuseries, Natalia touches on what it was like when she was faraway from her residence and put into an condo alone after her mother and father re-aged her:
“A lot of people did not like me at that apartment complex. I wasn’t 22, I was 8 years old, I didn’t know I couldn’t just go into people’s houses, I didn’t know there were boundaries.”
A neighbor seems in one of many episodes, claiming “a lot of people at the apartment reported inappropriate things she did” which included an alleged incident the place she had inappropriate contact with “private areas” of a “little boy” — however she outright denies these claims:
“That whole story is misunderstood. We were just rolling in the grass that was in front of the thing and we had a tickle fight. That’s when the dad came out and said, ‘What are you doing?!’ They said I tried to sexually touch him and that was not the case at all … I just started getting yelled at, I didn’t know why, so that’s why I ran. I thought I was just being a kid.”
Another disturbing story from her POV contains accusations of sexual abuse from older males within the advanced — which the neighbor within the doc did say would have her over for “hours and hours” at a time. Natalia recalled:
“I was walking around, I was bored, I didn’t know ‘Stranger Danger’ and I was knocking on people’s doors, seeing if anyone would talk to me. There was a guy, he was older, kind of a weird guy. He invited me in and he wasn’t dressed. I asked him what he was watching and it was a video that was a very sexual video. He played it and was like, ‘You can watch it. Just watch it, it’s okay.’”
So gross! No one in every of any age needs to be subjected to issues like that — particularly not somebody who was supposedly a toddler!
She stated it made her “very uncomfortable” as you may think about. Luckily, she ran out of the person’s residence earlier than issues might progress any additional:
“It’s so hard realizing that nobody actually cared. What if the guy raped me or something like that, all because Michael and Kristine pretty much left me?”
The neighbor did say there was a “dirty old man” across the advanced that may stroll round bare, however additionally they claimed:
“Natalia never complained about any of these things [and] was always talking about being with guys and sex. I don’t think she really cared that much that he was doing that.”
What an terrible factor to say! Just as a result of she didn’t “complain” about it, it should not have affected her? Poor woman…
Earlier this yr, Natalia’s adoptive father made extra claims about her, saying whereas she was staying at Indiana State Mental Hospital she was “propositioning men who are mental patients for sexual activity and it’s disturbing them and she can’t be there”. Another accusation she has denied:
“I don’t remember none of that. I was a kid in an adult section of a hospital. I don’t even really remember being around guys like that. I don’t know where all that is coming from. I don’t ever remember talking about having a boyfriend or wanting a boyfriend. If there is a possibility that I did say sexual comments, I probably heard that from somebody because I was really little.”
You can see the trailer for the upcoming docuseries which premieres on January 1 (beneath):
Wow… such a wild story. The approach she was allegedly handled sounds fairly horrible to us, whether or not she was a toddler or grownup! What do U assume?
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