She pretended to be a girl, but she was a woman suffering from dwarfism: the sinister case of Natalia Grace

New episodes of the docuseries The Curious Case of Natalia Grace they came Maximum in recent days to delve deeper into the famous story of deception and cruelty that has captured the attention of the press over the past decade.

The protagonists of the case are the Ukrainian Natalia Grace and her adoptive parents, the Americans Kristine and Michael Barnett. In 2019, the year in which the story came to light, it was learned that the couple had lived together for a long time with Natalia, thinking that she was a little girl, but in reality she was an adult woman with dark intentions.

In September 2019, after the former couple was accused of negligence for abandoning Natalia to live with their biological children in Canada, Kristine and Michael turned themselves in to police and told their side of the story.

A not so girl girl

According to what was revealed at the time, Natalia was abandoned in 2012 and found by the police two years later.

After a five-year case study, it was learned that the couple had adopted Grace in 2010, when the young girl was 8 years old. Natalia thought she had found the perfect family.

When the Barnetts went to Disney with the girl and noticed that she was acting very strangely, they decided to reconfirm that the girl was, indeed, a girl.

What was Natalia Grace’s real biological age?

The same year of his “abandonment”, after carrying out medical tests, Kristine and Michael discovered it His daughter was actually not a girl, but a woman with dwarfism of about 22 years old.. They had been deceived at the time of adoption.

To confirm this idea, Kristine showed a letter written by a doctor that said Grace’s age was “clearly inaccurate.”

The harsh accusations of marriage

The case added layers when The Barnetts accused Natalia of wanting to kill them for years.

Kristine said the woman pushed her against an electric fence, threw hot coffee at her and told her and her husband he would stab them while they slept.

“He tried to poison and kill my wife (…). One night, I opened my eyes and Natalia was standing at the foot of the bed with a knife in her hand,” Michael says in the documentary.

Weeks later, the matter would take a new turn.

What did Natalia’s biological mother say?

At the end of November, Natalia’s biological mother appeared.

Volodymyrivna Gava He was present when the case was made known and declared several things: that he had abandoned the girl and that Natalia was in reality not a woman suffering from dwarfism, but a minor suffering from dwarfism. She said that Grace, her daughter, was 16 years old.

Gava said he left Grace at an orphanage on medical advice. She would be told that her baby would never be able to move and that she would spend his entire life tied to a chair or bed.

Natalia Grace destroys the silence

Subsequently it was Natalia herself who had the right to reply.

Grace spoke on American TV and She denied wanting to kill her adoptive parents, as well as being an adult woman.. She confirmed that she suffers from dwarfism and also has scoliosis.

Inside Dr. Phil showsNatalia endorsed her biological mother’s statements: she stated that she was 16 years old (today she would be 21) and, specifically, that she was born on 4 September 2003.

He also said he came to the Barnett home when he was 6 years old and that the charge against him is the product of a mix-up.

She apparently got along well with her family until one day she ran into Kristine and Michael’s son, presumably inadvertently injuring him. It was then that her adoptive mother believed that she had tried to break the young man’s arm. “I didn’t try to kill anyone“.

Natalia claims that after being “abandoned” she was adopted by a new family.

The adoptive parents, for their part, continue to maintain that they did not abandon the girl to her fate and that they were exonerated in 2022 (they had been released from prison and immediately turned themselves in; she was on bail).

“I haven’t abandoned anyone. I went to Canada to continue my son’s studies. “These allegations are absolutely devastating,” Kristine said.

The HBO Max documentary series is not yet available in Argentina. directs it Christian Conway and has the support of discovery. The production offers exclusive access and insight into the mystery.