LAFAYETTE, INDIANA: Natalia Grace, who was allegedly 22 years old when adopted by her American parents, claims she was wronged. In a new docuseries to be aired on ID network, ‘The Curious Case of Natalia Grace’ many sides will be presented to the audiences. It is a three-episode series bringing light to one of the most bizarre adoptions registered in the country.
Grace, in an interview, declined her ex-adoptive parents' claim that she is ‘fully grown woman and is close to 30. "I'm 16. I was six years old when I came to the United States. I just know that a family came and visited me and after a while, they adopted me," she said. Kristine and Michael shared in the docuseries that they were a victim of fraud and her true age was kept secret from them. Natalia of Ukraine, in the interview, added, "I actually thought I'd found the right family after bouncing around a lot of families," she said on ‘Dr Phil' show.
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'Thought I was trying to break his arm'
"I thought I'd found the right family for me." However, Natalia told that her previous family returned her to US social services after she injured another child. She explained, "One of the boys, me and him were really close so we wrestled almost, but I landed on his arm wrong so the mum thought I was trying to break his arm." Kristine Barnett in 2019 alleged that Natalia had threatened to stab her family in their sleep, tried poisoning her coffee and even pushed her onto an electric fence, reports BBC News.
'I noticed that she had full pubic hair'
The former adoptive mother said, "I was giving her a bath and I noticed that she had full pubic hair. I was so shocked. I had just been told she was a six-year-old and it was very apparent she wasn't. Natalia was a woman. She had periods. She had adult teeth. She never grew a single inch which would happen even with a child with dwarfism." However, she denied the claim.
