[interviewer] How old are you?
A child from the Ukraine who was adopted by
a married couple here in the US,
what happens after that
will make your head burst into flame.
[reporter] Is this a child or a grown woman?
Bruh, this documentary is unhinged as hell.
It's called The Curious Case of Natalia Grace.
The Curious Case of Natalia Grace.
It is shocking.
[reporter 2] More than 10 million people watched.
I have never watched a documentary this good.
This story captured the imagination of the world.
Oh, my God. I'm blown away.
Whoa. I am shooketh.
She was gonna kill everybody.
She's evil.
[woman] You've adopted a kid
and now they're trying to kill you.
I mean, it's the stuff of a horror movie, right?
[man] Like a serial killer or something.
[anonymous person speaking]
Kristine tried to set me up with Natalia.
She was an adult.
[Nicole DePaul] Natalia was a child.
Is it true? Is it not?
We don't know.
[woman 2] Definitely not an area of town
that I would let my kids walk around unattended.
He's not the kind of guy that could do well
if he had to go to prison.
[voice breaking] I couldn't!
I just couldn't.
What a creepy guy.
Who does that with his daughter?
[news anchor] Eight months later,
the world is unified in one thing.
They want to hear from Natalia.
[woman 3] They don't know that there's 100% one villain here.
[woman 4] There were all these pieces to a puzzle
that we couldn't quite put together.
[Beth Karas] Natalia was a victim.
The Barnetts are the predators.
[man 2] Kristine trying to beat the truth out of her.
That was what broke my heart the most.
[interviewer speaking]
Just when you think you have it solved,
you find out you don't.
[man 3] The story just got crazier.
[man 4] You might not like the truth.
[Natalia] The Barnetts tried to paint me as this big monster.
They claimed I'm lying about my age.
I was six years old when they adopted me.
but the Barnetts did a petition to change my age to 22 years old.
I literally lost my childhood.
[Cynthia Mans] When the verdict was handed down for Michael
and they said, "Not guilty,"
and he looked at us and he smirked...
it was like watching my daughter be raped.
There was no justice served.
If I could've caught Kristine in an alley
and put a black hoodie on,
I would have busted her upside the head.
There are things I'm gonna tell you
that you have not heard from anyone else yet.
Michael and Kristine are cowards. They're heartless cowards.
That's not love. That's hate.
Sometimes the truth is crazier than fiction.
She knew that she couldn't "give the kid back."
She's a little girl. She's not a car.
[scoffs]
Many of these questions, there's not gonna be a single answer to,
there's gonna be a lot of answers to.
[Dr. Timothy Gossweiler] What I'm about to show you
will be definitive as to how old Natalia was.
[Dr. Halland Chen] Her DNA has all the answers.
I was never in y'all's room with a knife.
I know what I saw.
[Natalia] In every lie, is a hidden truth.
But you gotta dig enough to be able to see it.
They're not gonna get away with this.
This is my side of the story.
Do I look like a monster to you?
There has been so much time
that I've been just trying to figure out who I am.
I have no idea.
Because, right now, this is like a 1,000-piece puzzle
and I think I have like maybe only 300 pieces together.
I want you to know how old I am.
I want you to know about my past,
because I wanna know too.
It's very fuzzy.
Like, there's a lot of things that I remember,
but like I can't picture it.
So I want the puzzle to be complete.
But the things that Kristine and Michael have said
that I've done
is a lie.
It was all copied off the movie Orphan.
Ukrainian girl, Russian girl.
Check.
Orphan. Check.
All this crazy stuff,
standing at the end of the bed with a knife.
Check.
That's why I wanna do this.
That's why I wanna tell people what really happened,
because I didn't get that chance.
Michael and Kristine are painting me
as this homicidal maniac.
"She was eating her period. And she hid it for this long.
And having pubic hair at seven years old,
like, don't trust her. Don't believe anything she says.
She's trying to murder my family,"
and this, that and the third.
But then you're gonna come into that apartment
that y'all dropped my off in
and pretty much try to murder me.
I just want people to know the truth.
I'm Bishop Antwon Mans.
And I am Natalia's dad.
We started taking in children. We wanted to adopt
because there was a lot of children who need a family,
who don't have a family.
I'm Cynthia Mans. I love being a mom.
I have literally 11 children.
And I'm Natalia Grace's mom.
[Natalia] I've been with the Mans family for over 10 years.
You can see my life the way it is.
-[Antwon] A lot of love. Great. -Thank you.
[Natalia] I finally have parents that love me
more than Kristine and Michael ever did.
My dad and my mom, they let me be a kid.
My dad protects me.
He does what a dad is supposed to do.
My mom gives me hugs every day
and tells me how much she loves me.
And never once have they had to worry
about me hurting their kids.
I have siblings that love me. You can see that they love me
and that I love them.
[laughing] Hi!
Hi. Oh, hi!
Hi.
There's no-- Oh, hi. Oh, my gosh.
She has been a light to our family.
She has brought so much joy.
But when Natalia came into our family,
she was broken.
[all praying] Love in the name of Jesus.
We plead the blood of Jesus...
[Cynthia] And we're trying to pick up her pieces
from her being shattered
by what Kristine and Michael did to her.
[Antwon] We pray, God, that the truth will be revealed.
[Cynthia] Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus.
I'm Beth Karas. I'm a former prosecutor in New York City
and also a legal analyst.
In my experience,
this is one of the most twisted cases
I've ever seen.
This story is very different from anything I've covered.
Usually, I'm doing stories that have to do with murder and mayhem.
And this has no murder, but it has a lot of mayhem,
and a lot of it.
I mean, it's like a ping pong.
It's just going in one direction to another
as new information comes to light.
Especially now that Natalia is able to speak to us.
And, today, it seems pretty clear
that Natalia has the family she's always wanted,
the Manses.
But that wasn't always the case.
'Cause back in 2013, the Barnetts relocated Natalia
to Tippecanoe County as a re-aged adult.
So she's living there on her own.
At an adult learning center,
Natalia gets the attention of the faculty and staff
because it's an adult learning center,
but she's kind of childlike.
So they call the police.
This is what led the current Sheriff of Tippecanoe County,
Bob Goldsmith, but then a detective,
to get involved in the investigation of Natalia.
I'm Bob Goldsmith. I'm the Sheriff of Tippecanoe County.
In our Detective Division, I was the first detective involved.
People talk about a case that's kind of like a defining moment,
the one they'll never forget.
This is one of those cases.
It was in September, 2014,
when I received a phone call from Excel Center.
They said they had a young lady that had came in,
was enrolled in school,
and things just weren't adding up.
She said this young lady has an Indiana ID
that says she's like 22 years old,
twenty-five years old or something like that, they said.
But the conversations she has,
you'd think she's like maybe 11.
I've been around people with special needs
throughout my career,
but nobody like Natalia.
When she walked in, her backpack was bigger than she was.
And she was very, very short.
And she climbed right up in the chair and started talking.
I asked her if she-- "Do you think you're 25 years old?"
And she said, "No."
[Travis] I remember we got in the car, we both have kids,
and we're just like, "There's no way she's that old."
Some people, they have commented that it's an act.
What's your take on Natalia acting?
In all the interactions that me and you had with Natalia
at the Excel Center and here,
even watching her in the lobby,
she always acted like a little child.
She played like a little child.
She talked like a little child.
If she's acting,
she never broke it that we could see.
I know at one point, I asked Natalia,
um, if she had been abused.
And she kind of closed up on me.
She quit talking. She got silent.
You could tell she was uncomfortable.
I don't know if that's physical abuse, sexual,
I have no idea. But I wasn't gonna pry.
Um, I learned through the training
and having interviewed several kids
and working these cases over the years,
it's not gonna do any good to pry.
Um, when a child's ready to tell their story,
they'll tell it. So I just left it alone.
Knowing what I know,
I don't think justice has been served.
But what I do believe
is that Natalia's in a place where's she's happy now,
and she feels safe, and she feels loved.
And that's what she said she wanted.
I don't know.
No.
Because Natalia had been telling everybody,
therapists, doctors, us,
um, that she was a grown-up.
[Natalia] It's true that I told everybody that I'm 22 years old.
But...
Kristine literally trained me to lie.
And--
that's what makes it worse,
the fact that it had to come from me
and...
they could use that against me,
like, "Oh, but you said it."
You said that you was 22 years old.
And then they changed my age.
That whole thing was just a big chain reaction
from one lie.
But people don't know what happened in that house.
They tortured me.
I was abused.
Kristine is the real monster.
Michael is an accomplice to the monster...
because he went along with everything that Kristine said.
Who does that?
[Natalia] Changing my age
is the worst thing that the Barnetts ever did to me.
It hurts every single day.
But I was so terrified of Kristine.
When she told me to tell people
that I was 22 years old,
that's what I did.
One time, Kristine told me, she was like,
"I'm gonna show you what it's gonna feel like.
If you do something wrong, I'ma pepper spray you."
Kristine told me to keep my eyes open.
And then she just pepper sprayed me.
And I couldn't do anything about it.
She literally made me sit there for like ten minutes.
Until I could finally go wash it out.
And, even then, it still hurt.
And she didn't care.
She didn't care.
[sniffles]
It just really hurt...
because she was supposed to be my mom.
But she didn't act like a mom to me.
[Beth] Kristine was going to push the envelope
as far as she could to try to break Natalia.
So Kristine starts putting words in Natalia's mouth.
"This is what you tell people. This is what you say.
You're 22."
And the threat of being pepper sprayed
was just another control mechanism.
The abuse against Natalia didn't start immediately.
But the Barnetts' attempt to control the narrative did.
[Michael] Looking back to 2010,
something just wasn't right.
And you've gotta understand
with it being a closed adoption,
the adoption agency was not willing to share any details of her
when we asked them originally,
"Can you help give us contact information
for her old family.
We have got to find out what's going on here."
They said, "No, we can't."
And then I got a phone call from the secretary of the adoption agency
a little bit later that day.
And she said, "I can't tell you where she's from.
But check her luggage closer."
There was a little ID tag inside of her bag
when we adopted her
that had the original family's information on it.
I have never met them in person.
I have no idea why they would say
they never met the Ciccones
when they literally met them at the adoption agency.
Like, I remember having to wait
for who knows how long
while the Ciccones talked to the Barnetts.
Like, that's literally like how I remember it,
like plain as day.
So...
I don't understand that.
The Ciccones were the first family that ever adopted me from the Ukraine.
I remember find out that they were gonna adopt me
and I was so excited
because all I've ever known was being in that orphanage.
And then just to find out that someone is gonna adopt me
was just an awesome thing for me.
Like, I was so excited.
I was happy that I was finally gonna have a family
that actually wanted to-- me.
When we finally like pulled up into their big driveway,
like it was a hill.
And I was just like, "Whoa."
Like, I remember my 5-year-old self being so excited
'cause it was a big house.
Once we got in,
I literally like just looked everywhere.
And then they opened a door
and through that door was my bedroom.
And I was so excited it was pink.
[laughs] And it was just like there was everything in there.
I was with them for about two years.
But, yeah, there was a lot of good memories there.
But then it was like after a while, like...
everything kind of changed.
One time, me and the little boy, Buro,
we were just playing.
I landed on Buro's arm wrong.
And I just kept saying, "I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to hurt you."
But then Gary came in and he just started yelling.
And then, as he was walking away,
I was crying and I was mad,
I said, "I hate you."
After that, Gary, I guess,
like, he didn't like me anymore,
like, that's what I felt,
like, it felt like he hated me.
Then one day, I remember Dyan coming in my room,
she told me, she was like,
"I'm not gonna be your mom anymore,
but I will always love you."
And, like, I didn't know what was going on.
I felt like I was abandoned most of the time
because I bounced around from so many different families.
Dyan Ciccone had gone to the Little People of America
and said, "This little girl is available for adoption."
There were three little people couples interested in Natalia,
but none of them had worked out.
Gary and Dyan,
they passed me around from families, and I met a bunch,
but they didn't wanna adopt me,
or something happened.
And then all of a sudden, she told me that
they found a family that wanted me.
And that's where we were going, we were going to Florida.
It makes me mad
because I pretty much got sold,
like I'm some toy!
When the Ciccones took me to the adoption agency,
I remember being told to just
sit outside the room
and just wait.
And the Ciccones went in first
and talked to Michael and Kristine and the three boys.
I remember waiting for a while, like, I felt like a long time.
Finally, the Ciccones came out, and it was like,
"You can come in now."
And I remember running up to Michael and giving him a hug,
and I called him Daddy,
'cause the Ciccones told me that
Michael and Kristine were gonna be my parents.
I think it was Kristine who told me, she was like,
"We're gonna be your family now,"
and I remember still being very sad and very confused.
I believe I cried too.
She was like, "It's okay."
They acted like they wanted me to be their daughter.
So all I thought was just, "I've found my family.
They're gonna love me."
But thinking back on it...
I think I trusted them too fast.
My name is Jackie Starbuck.
I was the lead deputy prosecutor on the State versus Barnett cases.
There are things I'm gonna tell you
that you probably have not heard
from anyone else yet
that are part of the truth.
As we were conducting this investigation and talking to witnesses,
it was clear that there was something going on
that was unusual, to say the least.
From the time that Natalia came to the Barnetts
in April of 2010,
there continued to be a pattern of saying,
"Well, we don't know how old Natalia is.
We think she's this age. We think she's an adult."
When in fact, they had been told repeatedly
by multiple medical professionals
that that wasn't the case.
They were working to hide, really, that they ever had any connection with Natalia,
'cause they also claimed that
they didn't have any records at all
about Natalia's prior medical history,
and yet, they were providing to the school system
medical records from before she was with them.
[Beth] Michael lied when he said
he never met the Ciccones,
and he lied when he said this was a closed adoption.
A closed adoption, by definition, means
no information about or contact with
the prior family.
Not only do we have Natalia's account
of the Ciccones and Barnetts meeting
at Adoption by Shepherd Care,
but we have email exchanges
between the Barnetts
and the Ciccones.
And these email exchanges included
the executive director of Adoption by Shepherd Care.
They were talking to both families.
There were also signed contracts.
And the Ciccones
and Barnetts were involved
in a legal proceeding
within a few months
of picking up Natalia in Florida,
because there were complications
with the adoption.
But for some reason, Michael hid this fact.
And he led us to believe that
Adoption by Shepherd Care was the sole adoption agency
brokering the adoption of Natalia,
but that's not true.
We get this phone call out of the blue
from Adoption by Shepherd Care.
We get this phone call
from Adoption by Shepherd Care.
I have nobody to trust except for the experts involved, in this case,
it's gonna be Adoption by Shepherd Care.
[Beth] But Gateway Woods was their adoption agency.
Michael never mentions Gateway Woods.
Why not?
And I remember,
after we left the adoption agency,
we went to Disney World.
And I remember seeing the Ciccones
and I remember pointing them out.
I was like, "Hey, it's Mom."
And then Kristine was like, "That's not your mom anymore.
I'm your mom now."
And I was like, "Oh."
Like, I didn't really know what to say to that.
I was worried, like, "I hope I don't do something wrong."
We get to the hotel that night
and Kristine's going to give our brand-new daughter a bath,
and I hear a shout from the bathroom.
She says, "Michael, look down."
And Natalia had full pubic hair.
The first night, Kristine gave me a bath,
and, like, she never mentioned anything to me
about pubic hair or anything like that. Like, I didn't
know what that even was.
Like, nobody explained anything like that to me.
I was six, about to be seven, like, 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, like, honestly, I don't.
Like, I just remember Kristine just helping me get dressed,
and then we were just getting ready to go to bed.
I don't remember her, like, calling Michael or anything
like that, I don't remember Kristine doing any of that.
I just don't understand why the Barnetts
would say that I have pubic hair
or anything like that,
because literally, like, I didn't start noticing any hair, and so I was, like,
seven, almost eight.
But that doesn't mean that I'm this big monster.
I was still a kid, like...
Look, some kids start early.
You know, that's just, that's what happens.
Regardless of what happened in that hotel room,
we do know that that event did not trigger
any desire on the part of the Barnetts
to return Natalia.
Was this horror story by the Barnetts
in the Florida hotel room about massive amounts
of pubic hair really revisionist history
as justification for re-aging her years later?
Now that Natalia is able to speak to us,
we have more information,
and some of that information
includes the Gateway Woods' reports on home visits
and Dr. Riggs' report. We did not have these before.
And this is how we learned the fact
that the Barnetts were represented by Gateway Woods
during the adoption of Natalia.
Natalia was seen by a Dr. Riggs,
an endocrinologist,
on June 3rd, 2010.
[Detective Brandon on phone] What age was he saying that Natalia was?
[Dr. Andrew on phone] Okay, so here we go, this was the 3rd of 2010.
So at that time, she was at the age of 9 to 11 years old.
[Detective Brandon on phone] And did you tell the parents this directly?
[Dr. Andrew on phone] Yes, oh, yeah, mmm-hmm.
They were informed that we felt that she was a child.
So this is, like, five weeks
after she enters the Barnett household.
They knew right away she was a child.
Michael had to distance himself from Dr. Riggs and his report
because the doctor specifically told him
that Natalia was a child between the ages of 9 and 11.
He also had to distance himself from Gateway Woods
because Gateway Woods incorporated this information
in their report.
Is that why Michael led everyone to believe that
Adoption by Shepherd Care was his agency?
By leading others to believe that the adoption was closed,
Michael guaranteed that few would question
his story about the adoption.
We know now this is not true.
But it made a great cover story.
Everything could have been so different for Natalia
if she had been adopted by one of the families she met before the Barnetts.
-[Nicole] We are the DePauls. -It's not a toy.
-[dog whines] -No.
[Nicole] Woohoo!
As far as Natalia's age, she was a child.
You like? Ooh. You finish that.
We think the Barnetts should be in jail, both of them.
We attempted to adopt Natalia
back in, uh, 2009.
-We set up a private meeting... -We--
-...really, at a museum. -A museum, right? Yeah.
Her adoptive mother at the time, uh, brought her.
-[Nicole] She came in. -[Vincent] What a cute kid.
-[Nicole] Oh, my gosh. -[Vincent] She was adorable.
-[Nicole] So cute. -[Vincent] Absolutely.
[Nicole] We had Mackenzie already, our daughter,
and she was four.
We actually have pictures of Mackenzie and her
on this scooter together, and they were just like long-lost sisters.
[Vincent] Like two peas in a pod, it was really nice.
And we had two subsequent visits.
[Nicole] Halloween, and they were both princesses that year.
They got ready for bed together, they did everything.
-[Vincent] Helped each other blow dry their hair. -[Nicole] Yeah.
And then Mackenzie had a little car.
[Vincent] Just adorable four and six-year-old playing in the yard.
We were hopeful that it was gonna move forward, and, uh--
Um, yeah, like, it felt like a bomb got dropped,
and then we weren't able to see Natalia again after the last visit
over Christmas because things just got really messy,
uh, with the attorneys.
You know, it had nothing to do with Natalia.
-It was heartbreaking. -It was very heartbreaking.
Ugh.
Very, very heartbreaking.
The bond between Natalia and the DePauls
was deep and enduring.
They loved her, had no problems with her,
they wanted Natalia to be a member of the family.
I'm sorry, honey.
This should have worked out with the DePauls, right?
But things get complicated
when Child Protective Services in New Hampshire received
a report regarding Natalia and the Ciccones.
The Ciccones suspected the DePauls filed that report.
The DePauls denied it,
but it culminated in Natalia's adoption being taken off the table.
She was no longer available to the DePauls.
As you can imagine, this was heartbreaking for the DePauls
and their daughter, Mackenzie,
but also, it was heartbreaking for Natalia.
The DePauls, they were little people like me,
and I used to always go and visit them.
Um, I was there for Christmas,
Halloween, and Mackenzie and I were, like,
it felt like we were best friends.
I loved hanging out with her.
We did, like, almost everything together.
Just like how sisters would be.
I really did wanna stay with the DePauls,
so I wouldn't have had to go through the pain that I went through.
I felt like they actually wanted me and they loved me.
But-- And then it was just, like, I just stopped seeing them.
And I was sad about that.
I don't know, it was just a really weird thing,
like, I just stopped seeing them altogether.
Oh, yeah.
[Nicole] A few months later, Kristine messaged me,
and she said, "We adopted Natalia."
The first red flag that I saw with the Barnett family was
they got Natalia way too quickly, never even met her.
And they just, basically, that was it.
They just ripped her out of the family.
[Vincent] That was kind of shocking to us.
-Should we-- -"Should we make sure it's a good fit?"
-Yeah. -"Should we make sure she likes us?"
"Should we make sure she's comfortable with us and our other kids?"
She's a little girl, she's not a car. [scoffs]
Another thing that felt weird was Kristine asked me,
you know, "Had you ever, um, questioned Natalia's age?"
I said, "I've never once questioned Natalia's age."
I said, "I have her birth certificate, I have all of her paperwork."
-Do you remember this? -[Mackenzie] Yeah.
-This was at the museum... -The museum.
...when we first met Natalia.
It was in 2009.
And look at her tooth.
-See? It's missing, right? -[Mackenzie] Yeah.
In this picture, you can see the difference. See the teeth?
This one's from Halloween.
Can you see the teeth?
And then this one is before that.
You could tell the changes, obviously, in her teeth here.
And adults don't have changes in their teeth like that.
That happens only once in your life,
when you're around six years old,
exactly how old she is...
-[both chuckle] -...in 2009.
Does that look like a 20-year-old to you?
I mean, come on.
-[both chuckle] -I'm sorry, which is ludicrous.
I remember, when I was with the Barnetts,
we had just got back from dinner,
and my tooth came out.
I had a wiggly tooth, and my tooth came out.
Of course, Kristine didn't believe me.
She said, "Why did you pull your tooth out?"
I said, "I didn't pull my tooth out."
And there was, like, a long piece,
like, I guess, like, almost, like, the root of it,
and she's like, "See, the root is right there, you pulled it out.
That wouldn't be there if your tooth actually fell out."
And I didn't know what to say to that,
but I just kept telling her, "No, I didn't, I didn't pull my tooth out, it fell out."
But she just kept telling me, "You're lying, you pulled your tooth out."
Ny name is Dr. Tim Gossweiler,
I've been practicing general dentistry for 34 years,
and I am the dentist that,
uh, Natalia Barnett
and her mother
came to see in 2011.
Mrs. Barnett brought in Natalia,
and was saying, "We have a question as to how old Natalia is,
we think she might be older than what she says she is.
Is there a way you can find out?"
Uh, which is an unusual request.
Talking to Natalia, she looked like she was about seven,
but she acted like she was much older.
She was answering questions articulately.
So at seven years old, you just don't see that all the time,
and that's why I thought, "Well, this girl can't be seven years old."
And I can see how mom would think that,
after talking to her, because she seemed very mature.
I did ask how do they know
that she's not six or whatever when they got her?
And she's like, "Well, we had dental records done
on her and the dentist said
that none of her teeth are baby teeth,
they're all adult teeth.
So I was like, "Okay, okay." [chuckles softly]
[Dr. Timothy] This is the room where we did Natalia's panoramic X-ray.
So what I'm about to show you
will be a definitive answer as to
how old Natalia was in 2011.
Yeah, we determined that she had, uh,
12 baby teeth remaining, uh, three in each quadrant,
so these three teeth right here, in all the quadrants.
It's very simple to determine Natalia's age, I mean,
there is really no question when you take an X-ray like this.
You've got baby teeth, adult teeth,
and there is a range that you have for someone
who's got this level of tooth development,
and that's going to be, going to extremes,
six to nine years old.
This is way too many baby teeth to be an adult.
It's indisputable, you can't fake teeth coming in like this.
So when mom and Natalia left,
mom knew that Natalia was around eight or nine,
which is right in the range of what she said that she was.
Oh, her age was ch-- They legally changed her age?
Oh, they tried to-- Oh, I wasn't aware of that.
And what was it changed to?
Oh, really? Wow.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's a big jump.
Nothing in the X-ray that we took that would show
that she could be anywhere near
15 years older. Wow, that seems crazy.
[Beth] So that means that even after signing the dental records,
Kristine still told people
that Natalia was an adult.
Why?
[Natalia] After the trial and everything, and all the records I have,
especially in the medical records,
it all points to me being a kid.
So I understand what the truth is.
I've known the truth for as long as I can remember,
that I was a kid.
But there's a lot of people who are thinking, like,
"There is a way to tell her age.
There is a way to prove it."
I just want people to just really
see the truth about my age.
TruDiagnostic,
really, we're answering a fundamental question,
"How old are you?"
In fact, the uses and the insurance
will actually predict when someone's gonna die, right?
And so, if you think about that world,
this is super important to be accurate.
What we're trying to determine
is someone's chronological age,
not based off of anyone's emotions,
or what he said or she said.
For Natalia, we're trying to figure out, "Well, how old is she?"
[softly] Ooh.
-[man] You ready? -No, mm.
We're really just taking a sample of blood,
which has our answers, because it's in the DNA.
Once we get this sample, we are very excited
to really tie this entire case together.
[Natalia] I'm praying for the best for this,
but I'm really nervous.
Like, I don't know what they're gonna say.
Thanks for coming to the lab.
Wanna take a look at the results?
Yes.
All right.
-[chuckles nervously] -[Dr. Halland] All right, so moment of truth, all right?
Yes.
Based off of all the studies and everything being analyzed,
you're more closer to 22.
Which is pretty close to what you think, you're almost 20,
that's within two years.
Wow.
This one little piece of paper throws every single lie
that the Barnetts have said right into the trash
with a match.
[sniffles] This is so big,
because literally, this has been 13 years.
Thirteen years of just two people lying their butts off.
[sniffles] They ruined a kid's life.
They painted that I'm some big monster, when in reality, they were the ones.
[Bishop Antwon] You're exactly right.
[Natalia] It just proves that I was not lying about my age.
They ignored everything... [sniffles] ...that was pointing to the truth,
just so they could create this stupid lie.
[crying]
So if all of that is true about her age,
that means Natalia came into the country in 2008
when she was four, almost five.
Adopted by the Barnetts in 2010 when she was seven.
Natalia was eight when the age-change petition was filed,
and was placed in the apartment in Westfield.
In July of 2013,
when she was placed in the Lafayette apartment,
she would have been nine,
a few months shy of turning ten.
What that means is that Natalia was a child
living on her own.
[sniffling and crying]
I just wanna know, why create this story?
[sniffles]
They knew, and they still did what they did.
[sniffles]
[Bishop Antwon] Why do this?
Why go through all of this, for what?
The question is, why?
That's the million-dollar question.
I always knew I wasn't an adult,
but I never knew why the Barnetts
adopted me.
Never once did I see any love.
I feel like there's something bigger with this.
I don't know what it is.
How did they shut these doctors up?
How did they hide all this evidence?
They are hiding something big.
And I wanna know the answers to these questions.
And I want people to pay for what they have done.