What is internet? How does YouTube? When is applications?
Why doesn't mainstream media understand how YouTube works by now? It's like they're aliens pretending to be human reading a script for YouTube segments. For people that have spent their entire careers working in and around media, it blows my mind that they don't have a better understanding of how streaming video through the interwebs has changed how we consume news and entertainment.
In 2019 Kristine and Michael Barnett were charged with six counts of neglect of a dependent, and two counts of conspiracy to commit neglect of a dependent. Over nine years earlier they adopted what they thought was a 6 year old with dwarfism from Ukraine named Natalia. Soon after they claim that things were not as they first appeared. They claimed that Natalia was actually an adult pretending to be a child. They alleged that she had sociopathic tendencies and threated harm to their family.
A couple years later the Barnetts moved to Canada to be with their son beginning college. They changed Natalia Barnett's age with the courts so that she was legally an adult, put her up in an apartment to fend for herself. She was later discovered and adopted by a new family. Around six years after the Barnetts had moved to Canada, charges were brought against them for neglect.
Was Natalia an adult sociopath or was she an innocent child abandoned by Michael and Kristine? Michael and Kristine had charges dropped in 2020, but the state has filed appeals and is not dropping the case.
Is this a retelling of the plot of the move The Orphan, or is this a mere work of fiction?
Update 10 in the ongoing Natalia Barnett, Ukrainian adoption, neglect case. A few people have been issued subpoenas to testify for the prosecution on December 17th, including media outlet Inside Edition.
They have asked for Inside Edition to provide all business records and all audio as well as video records relating to Michael Barnett and his attorney's appearance in their October 9th segment.
Kristine and Michael Barnett face charges of neglect for putting their adopted daughter in an apartment and moving to Canada. They claim that the girl was not 6 years old, but is/was an adult sociopath when they adopted her. They claim that she has psychological issues and threatened to harm as well as poison them. They legally had her age changed in 2012.
She claims to be 16, while they claim she was born in 1989 and is a 30 year old dwarf pretending to be a child.
The adopted daughter of Kristine Barnett and Michael Barnett has been found living with a new family in Indiana. The adopted parents have been charged with abandonment after paying for an apartment for her and moving to Canada in 2013.
Kristine Barnett claims that the girl is really an adult pretending to be much younger than she actually is in order to get people to take care of her. She also said the girl has some serious psychological issues and was diagnosed as a sociopath.
Is the girl a child, is she just pretending?
I originally made a video about this situation earlier in the week, if you're looking for more background information, that you can watch here.
I've been fascinated with this case, so I will continue to follow and post updates.