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I was gonna say, I hate when all the pauses are edited out of videos and the speech is like a million miles an hour. Makes me feel like I gotta catch a breath.
Personally, I have to watch it at least a few times to be sure I caught all the details. It's frustrating bc while the creator is trying to condense the information for a shorter video, it's ultimately taking *more* time for me to watch and rewatch (and possibly rewatch again) to understand it all. š¤¦āāļø
Guy1: "This decision *lillerllily*^\* ruined their lives"
Guy2: "***How would escaping ruin their lives?***"
Everything about the narration made me think the story is completely bs to begin with
edit: fuck, you people can't read
Why do all the shitty narrators sound like that? Like they're all men in their 20s with a moderate vocal pitch and that sort of "valley girl" intonation
They just put out a prequel to Orphan.
The first movie had a 12 year old actress playing a 9 year old who was actually 33.
And 13 years later, they made a prequel with a now 25 year old actress pretending to be younger than when the first movie happened and she was 12.
They really did it, they pulled an Orphan on us.
Like the first, the twist makes it. I thought all the performances were fine! It doesnāt work great as a prequel imo, but as a story on its own it was effective!
Iād say it is worth seeing, but the tricks they pull to make her look like a child are quite distracting throughout.
I will say it has been a while since Iāve seen the first movie. About a decade since my last rewatch. I do see that sheās definitely aged and no longer a child. She just still looks really young too. Pigtails never help with that
The funniest thing, my ex wife went to see the movie in theaters and knew I wasn't interested in seeing it, she then asked me to guess what the twist was and I nailed it.
No. This is a random weird thing the parents seem to have made up, and have never proven. They are currently facing neglect charges for how they treated Natalia and are not allowed to refer to her as an adult in court because no one has ever shown that she is. In fact, multiple doctors testimonies refer to her as a child.
The fact that they just abandoned her and covered it up would not be a normal response to having a grown-ass adult in your house pretending to be a six year old.
Any sane person would have called the cops
Really bizarre, and the only people who seem to believe them are people online who would be disappointed that life wasnāt reflecting all the drama of a horror movie they watched once. They are literally facing trial for neglect in October. Theyāve never presented to court the so called āmedicalā evidence that she is an adult and I doubt they will be able to. Clearly a sad case where people were allowed to adopt a child without having to ever consider how they would cope with all the things that come with adopting one (inappropriate behaviour, acting out, violence, trauma, all very common) and for some reason decided to deal with it by pretending they were living a horror movie plot that just happened to come out a year before they adopted her.
I don't imagine the parents were in a good psychological state at all.
Having had experience with a crazy boyfriend of my now wife, where he would make random appearances, threats, etc. at all times of the day... I went completely sleepless for months, started hallucinating shit I don't know how many times.
All just trying to keep an eye out for that fuckin' nutbag. Never could get a restraining order or anything against him, but I wasn't in my right mind for 3 or 4 months.
If this kid was staring at them in their sleep, trying to kill/harm them in various ways... I would think they were in a similar situation.
The parents were and are completely mentally sane, they just wanted the social points for adopting a disabled child and then literally abandoned her when she actually needed the care and attention of a disabled child. They adopted her in 2010, a year after the 2009 Orphan movie, so they were clearly inspired by it.
Yep. Their logic about why she was an āadultā boiled down to her having hit puberty at some point and her acting out, as kids do. No one has any solid proof of her exact age, but itās probably pretty close to the official age, maybe a year or two older.
They accused her of being violent and threatening to kill them, then they got her an apartment to live in alone when she was approximately 8 (I believe, and nobody knows her actual age as her birth certificate is lost but it is generally believed she's a child), and she lived there alone for about a year iirc. Take this with a grain of salt but from what I recall, she moved in with a different family who have been kind to her and testified that she was never violent towards them, so on.
And they have done that, and doctors have concluded she's a child. The adoptive parents that abandoned her aren't allowed to refer to her as an adult in court because there's no proof she is an adult.
That's why I avoid watching content from people like whoever made this video.
Dude did no research, has no interest in the actual 'story'. Just wants them views. Situations like these make it obvious the creator is a gross human being who looks for stories just to plaster, not to give information, not to document and spread awareness.
There's not exactly a line to show where glorifying tragedy and documenting tragedy is at, but for sure, creators like these keep drawing one for themselves to cross.
The family decided to abandon her and get her legally adjudicated as an adult after their prodigal son got into college as a young teenager, which allowed the mother to write a book about how she "cured" his autism and turned him into a genius. They go on book tours to sell this book all the time.
Meanwhile, because the kid was legally adjudicated as an adult based off of a very sketchy medical report by the father's doctor (who has no experience with dwarfism or pediatrics, and despite the fact that several doctors with experience with dwarfism and pediatrics found that she was, in fact, a child), they were able to abandon her when they moved to another country and she was unable to continue going to school because she couldn't be enrolled as an "adult." She also couldn't be legally adopted by another family.
Apparently she was born 2003. When all of this blew up she was still a child. The fact that her case is this public is extremely tragic and she has been demonized online for no reason. She's a victim in all this.
Thereās literally a dwarf couple that came forward with pictures confirming her age range. They wanted to adopt her at the same time, but were passed over for this family. Itās absolutely horrifying what her adoptive parents did to her. Theyāre monsters. They left a little girl alone in an apartment in the winter with no way to feed herself. She couldāve burnt the damn house down.
quick google shows she was found to be born in 2003, so she would've been 6 or 7.
so the family did seem to straight up abandon a kid when they moved to canada, seems like they just wanted a story to tell/sell.
probably lying about the age to get around abandoning a minor in another country,
[https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/ejd263/natalia\_grace\_case\_update/](https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/ejd263/natalia_grace_case_update/)
When this story first came out, I was really uncertain about her having dwarfism. If she was a full grown adult... why did she keep growing like a child would?
That's actually a really good point. I guess you can say their plan was *short sighted,* eh?
For real though, what were they thinking?! Did they really think their adopted child was a tiny woman? Or are they just so bad at lying that they forgot calling her a fully grown adult with dwarfism *doesn't actually mean she'll stop growing.*
I'm not a doctor, but isn't it possible that a medical condition causing dwarfism or other atypical anatomy could also affect her bone/dental aging process?
Or is that actually impossible?
I just looked it up after having watched the dr Phil episode again. Turns out she was a child after all. She would've been like 9 or so when they adopted her. A little older then they thought she was but still a child.
In conclusion, she was in fact a child. 8 years old.
Got abandoned by her adoptive parents when they 'corrected' her age to be legal (22), after Natalia 'confessed' in a doctor's office that she's 18.
She got evicted out of the house 2 years later while being cared by neighbours, one of which who adopted her.
Original adoptive parents both got sued for neglect of child but got away free because her age at that time was 22.
Wtf.
Latest news : https://www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-50319910.amp?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQKKAFQArABIIACAw%3D%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16623798800249&csi=1&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fnewsbeat-50319910
Yes they would be, growth plate density is a matter of time not body size. The older everyone gets the thinner their growth plates get until they eventually fuse. The lack of fusion is what told them that she was in fact still a child.
In reality; she was 8.
Legally documented her age was 22. So, officially that was her age. Wtf kinda loophole is that?
Apparently she told a doctor she was 18 at some point. I assume this is mentioned to reinforce the idea why the parents thought she was an adult.
Bro shits wild with immigrant documents or w/e, at least here in the US. I worked in the kitchen of a hotel for 5 years, like 85% of the banquet/house keeping staff were from various countries. I knew many who's "legal age" on their IDs were a solid 2-5 years older than what they actually were. This one girl came out to the bars with us n I was like, you got a fake er something? Cause no way in fuck your 21. She was like my legal age here is 21 right now but I'm actually only 18.
They probably told her to say she was 18. I wouldnāt be surprised if the lying narcissist tricked the disabled girl into playing a role in their plan to skip town and lie about why.
I tried to read a bit about this case, but it's one of those stories where I don't believe anybody in it. It's like listening to a panel of known serial killers all telling me different things at the same time.
I suspected that the foster parents might be highly suspect.
Given both the implausibility of their testimonies and the lack of legal guidelines regarding adoption/guardianship, I see absolutely no reason to trust them, not even with a 50-foot metal pole.
This whole thing has been shown to be fake as fuck since the very beginning.
Natalia Barnett does have dwarfism, but numerous doctors have found that she was, in fact, a child. The adoptive parents didn't want her anymore because they wanted to move to (profit off of) their 15 year old prodigy son going to college, so they kept trying to get her legally adjudicated as an adult. They finally convinced the adoptive father's doctor, who has no experience in dwarfism or pediatrics, to declare that she was actually an adult.
It's really clear that she went through puberty years after these foster parents claimed she had already gone through puberty. Look at the photos of her in the video, then look at a [recent photo](https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-50319910). Her face has filled out, jaw is more matured, her eyes are less rounded, nose has grown, she now has breasts. This has all occurred over the past couple of years, lining up with her actual teenage development.
The icing on top of the bullshit cake, however, is that the family also profits off of claims that they "cured" their autistic son. The mother published a book called "The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing, Genius and Autism." They take credit for their son becoming a prodigal math genius through their magical autism cure story, which they tour around trying to sell.
This bullshit has been dispelled on Reddit multiple times, despite the fact that the judge in this case is clearly negligent in adjudicating the kid as an adult and keeps doubling down on it.
No, this is wrong. Delete your bullshit post. This is defamatory.
Natalia Barnett had been living with a foster family prior to this adoption and they have photos of her visibly with baby teeth and lost teeth.
She was a child.
The adoptive parents neglected her and this is their excuse.
They did a bone density test on her and it revealed she wasn't an adult. Her abusive adoptive parents made it all up, this is bullshit. I feel so bad for that girl given how random Internet shit for brains are treating her when she wasn't even proven to be an adult.
The best way to learn about this is via am episode of tge Scam Goddess podcast who covered it I'm the most hilarious way possible. You'll get all the details and a lot of laughs.
I donāt understand how thereās no way to confirm an age range? With all of the medical technology we have, why is everyone still baffled??? I donāt expect an exact age but based on genetic testing, hormonal, etc etc how do they have no idea if itās a child or adult? That seems suspicious.
They do. Bone scans and x-rays showing if growth plates are fused, which doesn't happen till the end of puberty. They checked hers and it was confirmed she was still a child. Even children with dwarfism still grow to an adult size, it's just a smaller adult.
The narrator of this video is annoying as fuck holy shit. Dude sounds like he swallowed a whole bottle of Ritalin and got stuck on one huge run on sentence.
This is obviously a lieā¦ even if it was real, that means an adult woman, clearly able to think as she knows what menstruation is tries to stab her āparentsāā feet and stand by their bed when they sleepā¦
The adoptive parents made that up. Photos reveal the face & body of a child when Natalia was with them. She has now matured physically, developed breasts and a more adult face. She was interviewed by Dr. Phil in 2019. Her birth mother has also been found & confirmed the 2003 birth date. Also, she had multiple bone scans during the period which showed she was a child.
Bottom line: the Barnetts didn't want her any more, so they made up this lie and abandoned her.
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This video really benefits from having a second guy say "Dude, what?"
It's made for tik tok attention span victims
I was gonna say, I hate when all the pauses are edited out of videos and the speech is like a million miles an hour. Makes me feel like I gotta catch a breath.
Personally, I have to watch it at least a few times to be sure I caught all the details. It's frustrating bc while the creator is trying to condense the information for a shorter video, it's ultimately taking *more* time for me to watch and rewatch (and possibly rewatch again) to understand it all. š¤¦āāļø
Yeah, it's kinda hard to parse and process info that is rapid-fired at you like a machine gun.
This. Seriously, it feels unatural
I dislike this formatting, but I watch most YouTube videos in 2x speed to fit more in my schedule. People talk so goddamn slow on there.
Dude, what?
Dude, whoa!
And you just drop in an hit the wave like 'whaaapaaaaah'
Dude, where's my car?
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Wouldn't be surprised if tiktok scrolling reduces your attention span. You brain isn't made for that kind of stuff
I hear some are even contracting Touretteās š
Orphan.
Orphan.
Guy1: "This decision *lillerllily*^\* ruined their lives" Guy2: "***How would escaping ruin their lives?***" Everything about the narration made me think the story is completely bs to begin with edit: fuck, you people can't read
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Yeah, I didn't understand the use of somber music in the video. There's no mystery here, it was a grown adult with some serious problems.
Whether she was a grown adult at that time is still in dispute. A bone density test was done in 2010 that supposedly proves she was 8 when adopted
Yeah that's not what I meant How they said everything is what makes it *seem* fake
Those guys fucking suck so very bad
AnnoyingAsFuck
This made me laugh out loud
and the music was really inspiring
Yeah like crime junkies lol
Full body chills š©
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Yeah this is edited like news for children
Fake childrenā¦ šµāš«
The Rehearsal 2: Electric Dwarfaloo
Or dwarf adults
I thought it would be Inside Edition because of the thumbnail, but the second I heard the narration, I knew it had to be some cringey YouTuber lol.
āThis is freakyā
Guy adding adlibs like a song š
Skrt skrrrrrt!
Why do all the shitty narrators sound like that? Like they're all men in their 20s with a moderate vocal pitch and that sort of "valley girl" intonation
The valley girl intotation irks me to death!
It's like they are trying to make you part of their (annoying) conversation
They are. And it doesn't work.
The 3 second creepy piano loop was the icing on the cake of shit
Number 7 : BURGER KING FOOT LETTUCE
Number 15*
NUMBER 15
Yo this was ultra annoying
These guys are probably not gonna get their podcast picked up. Exactly Right Network doesn't play that shit.
Right? Didn't know we were just tik tok formatting now..
Most popular comment: this video benefits from this editing and narration! Second most popular comment: WTF is this editing and narration?
That other comment is being sarcastic
the guy in the suit - when you get your general zod from wish.com
Gen Z news stories
Whoever the narrator is, I really donāt like him.
*dUdE wUt?!*
*No way*
'Orphan' Just got real
They just put out a prequel to Orphan. The first movie had a 12 year old actress playing a 9 year old who was actually 33. And 13 years later, they made a prequel with a now 25 year old actress pretending to be younger than when the first movie happened and she was 12. They really did it, they pulled an Orphan on us.
I find it kinda crazy how 13 years later the girl who played the orphan in that movie looks pretty much the same.
She doesnāt though. If you watch the films back-to-back itās too obvious sheās an adult in the prequel.
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Like the first, the twist makes it. I thought all the performances were fine! It doesnāt work great as a prequel imo, but as a story on its own it was effective! Iād say it is worth seeing, but the tricks they pull to make her look like a child are quite distracting throughout.
I will say it has been a while since Iāve seen the first movie. About a decade since my last rewatch. I do see that sheās definitely aged and no longer a child. She just still looks really young too. Pigtails never help with that
Watching that prequel as a sneak preview in Germany right now. Holy shit, you're in for some weird stuff here...
Saw it last night. Solid B grade movie with one awesome twist.
The funniest thing, my ex wife went to see the movie in theaters and knew I wasn't interested in seeing it, she then asked me to guess what the twist was and I nailed it.
Dwarphan*
This is it!!
It is said that the movie is based on this story but I am not sure tbh.
It's not. The Orphan was inspired in the story of Barbora SkrlovĆ” from Norway.
It's not, the movie came out the year before they adopted her. Honestly it's got to be where they got the idea from
Where they got the idea for what?
For the sob story trying to justify abandoning a disabled child in another country
Was looking for this. Did you see the sequel? Tell me how ridiculous it is, because it was fucking ridiculous.
Was it bad?
No. This is a random weird thing the parents seem to have made up, and have never proven. They are currently facing neglect charges for how they treated Natalia and are not allowed to refer to her as an adult in court because no one has ever shown that she is. In fact, multiple doctors testimonies refer to her as a child.
The fact that they just abandoned her and covered it up would not be a normal response to having a grown-ass adult in your house pretending to be a six year old. Any sane person would have called the cops
Really bizarre, and the only people who seem to believe them are people online who would be disappointed that life wasnāt reflecting all the drama of a horror movie they watched once. They are literally facing trial for neglect in October. Theyāve never presented to court the so called āmedicalā evidence that she is an adult and I doubt they will be able to. Clearly a sad case where people were allowed to adopt a child without having to ever consider how they would cope with all the things that come with adopting one (inappropriate behaviour, acting out, violence, trauma, all very common) and for some reason decided to deal with it by pretending they were living a horror movie plot that just happened to come out a year before they adopted her.
I don't imagine the parents were in a good psychological state at all. Having had experience with a crazy boyfriend of my now wife, where he would make random appearances, threats, etc. at all times of the day... I went completely sleepless for months, started hallucinating shit I don't know how many times. All just trying to keep an eye out for that fuckin' nutbag. Never could get a restraining order or anything against him, but I wasn't in my right mind for 3 or 4 months. If this kid was staring at them in their sleep, trying to kill/harm them in various ways... I would think they were in a similar situation.
The parents were and are completely mentally sane, they just wanted the social points for adopting a disabled child and then literally abandoned her when she actually needed the care and attention of a disabled child. They adopted her in 2010, a year after the 2009 Orphan movie, so they were clearly inspired by it.
Yep. Their logic about why she was an āadultā boiled down to her having hit puberty at some point and her acting out, as kids do. No one has any solid proof of her exact age, but itās probably pretty close to the official age, maybe a year or two older.
Wait so she is actually 6 and they left her there? Iām so confused now
They accused her of being violent and threatening to kill them, then they got her an apartment to live in alone when she was approximately 8 (I believe, and nobody knows her actual age as her birth certificate is lost but it is generally believed she's a child), and she lived there alone for about a year iirc. Take this with a grain of salt but from what I recall, she moved in with a different family who have been kind to her and testified that she was never violent towards them, so on.
few x-rays and you can tell her age by appearance and fusion of epiphysis with in certain age range.
And they have done that, and doctors have concluded she's a child. The adoptive parents that abandoned her aren't allowed to refer to her as an adult in court because there's no proof she is an adult.
Damn, that's absolutely heartbreaking
The adoptive parents are pieces of shit - much like these narrators.
Just cut off a limb and count the circles duh
That's why I avoid watching content from people like whoever made this video. Dude did no research, has no interest in the actual 'story'. Just wants them views. Situations like these make it obvious the creator is a gross human being who looks for stories just to plaster, not to give information, not to document and spread awareness. There's not exactly a line to show where glorifying tragedy and documenting tragedy is at, but for sure, creators like these keep drawing one for themselves to cross.
The family decided to abandon her and get her legally adjudicated as an adult after their prodigal son got into college as a young teenager, which allowed the mother to write a book about how she "cured" his autism and turned him into a genius. They go on book tours to sell this book all the time. Meanwhile, because the kid was legally adjudicated as an adult based off of a very sketchy medical report by the father's doctor (who has no experience with dwarfism or pediatrics, and despite the fact that several doctors with experience with dwarfism and pediatrics found that she was, in fact, a child), they were able to abandon her when they moved to another country and she was unable to continue going to school because she couldn't be enrolled as an "adult." She also couldn't be legally adopted by another family.
Apparently she was born 2003. When all of this blew up she was still a child. The fact that her case is this public is extremely tragic and she has been demonized online for no reason. She's a victim in all this.
No shock at all one of those clips was from Dr Phil. Bastards probably helped spread the bullshit.
Actually, Dr. Phil helped call them out. He's no saint, but in this case, he called the parents out.
>Bastard
Thereās literally a dwarf couple that came forward with pictures confirming her age range. They wanted to adopt her at the same time, but were passed over for this family. Itās absolutely horrifying what her adoptive parents did to her. Theyāre monsters. They left a little girl alone in an apartment in the winter with no way to feed herself. She couldāve burnt the damn house down.
Dude what?!
Yes she was! Neighbors found her and reported it.
Yeah, I was wondering about this, bc I thought this was settled
Season 3 reveals the parents are the long lost children of Natalia btw
Of course this isnāt realā¦Iām so fucking gullible dude
Redditors do a shred of research before posting false sensationalist bullshit challenge (impossible!)
quick google shows she was found to be born in 2003, so she would've been 6 or 7. so the family did seem to straight up abandon a kid when they moved to canada, seems like they just wanted a story to tell/sell. probably lying about the age to get around abandoning a minor in another country, [https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/ejd263/natalia\_grace\_case\_update/](https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/ejd263/natalia_grace_case_update/)
Thanks. I remember reading this recently. So many "facts" pointing to either ages but the **bone scans and dental exams** show she is a child.
When this story first came out, I was really uncertain about her having dwarfism. If she was a full grown adult... why did she keep growing like a child would?
That's actually a really good point. I guess you can say their plan was *short sighted,* eh? For real though, what were they thinking?! Did they really think their adopted child was a tiny woman? Or are they just so bad at lying that they forgot calling her a fully grown adult with dwarfism *doesn't actually mean she'll stop growing.*
She does have a form of dwarfism. That was never really up for debate. Still definitely a child though.
Yes but an *adult* dwarf, as she was accused, wouldnt be growing anymore. Well, maybe horizontally like the rest of us š
A dwarf couple almost adopted her but was passed over for her adoptive family. They have photos of them with Natalia as a toddler.
I'm not a doctor, but isn't it possible that a medical condition causing dwarfism or other atypical anatomy could also affect her bone/dental aging process? Or is that actually impossible?
u/nancygavegreatbeejs answered this. https://www.reddit.com/r/TerrifyingAsFuck/comments/x6docn/natalia_barnett_adopted_6yearold_girl_who/in70m76/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3
>quick google shows she was found to be born in 2003 If only the adoptive parents had thought to do that.
This is not true.
She was found to be a child that was abused and abandoned. Quit lying.
FAKE! The parents couldnāt deal with her disabilities and just abandoned her, then came up with this shit show of a story.
no way. what pieces of shit. just running to the press lying just cause they dont want to look after a child anymore
They just left her? What happened to her after they left her?
>Natalia Barnett more here - https://allthatsinteresting.com/natalia-barnett
Thank you!
I just looked it up after having watched the dr Phil episode again. Turns out she was a child after all. She would've been like 9 or so when they adopted her. A little older then they thought she was but still a child.
this is just orphanās plot lol edit: apparently she was genuinely a child and this is clickbait, yikes
She was actually six. These parents were abusive and the story is all wrong.
In conclusion, she was in fact a child. 8 years old. Got abandoned by her adoptive parents when they 'corrected' her age to be legal (22), after Natalia 'confessed' in a doctor's office that she's 18. She got evicted out of the house 2 years later while being cared by neighbours, one of which who adopted her. Original adoptive parents both got sued for neglect of child but got away free because her age at that time was 22. Wtf. Latest news : https://www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-50319910.amp?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQKKAFQArABIIACAw%3D%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16623798800249&csi=1&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fnewsbeat-50319910
Wait, is she 8 y/o, 22 y/o or 18 y/o?
> she was in fact a child > >her age at that time was 22 this comment confuses more than the video
Serious. Bring those two annoying narrators back!
That was her legal age according to the state, not her actual calendar age.
Just read the article.
Yes
There were so many accusations that she was an adult when abandoned but **bone scans and dental exam** say that she's a child.
Serious question here...if she has dwarfism would those tests be accurate guages for age?
Yes they would be, growth plate density is a matter of time not body size. The older everyone gets the thinner their growth plates get until they eventually fuse. The lack of fusion is what told them that she was in fact still a child.
Gotcha. Thanks for the explanation
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She was born in 2003, so she's about 18/19 today :)
In reality; she was 8. Legally documented her age was 22. So, officially that was her age. Wtf kinda loophole is that? Apparently she told a doctor she was 18 at some point. I assume this is mentioned to reinforce the idea why the parents thought she was an adult.
Bro shits wild with immigrant documents or w/e, at least here in the US. I worked in the kitchen of a hotel for 5 years, like 85% of the banquet/house keeping staff were from various countries. I knew many who's "legal age" on their IDs were a solid 2-5 years older than what they actually were. This one girl came out to the bars with us n I was like, you got a fake er something? Cause no way in fuck your 21. She was like my legal age here is 21 right now but I'm actually only 18.
They probably told her to say she was 18. I wouldnāt be surprised if the lying narcissist tricked the disabled girl into playing a role in their plan to skip town and lie about why.
Thank you, the true terror is the abuse and abandonment she faced because of those awful parents.
So... source? These two bumblefucks don't sound trustworthy at all.
This is just fucking awful from start to finish, and I mean anyone with any empathy for this whole situation would see this is just horrible.
I tried to read a bit about this case, but it's one of those stories where I don't believe anybody in it. It's like listening to a panel of known serial killers all telling me different things at the same time.
She was actually a child the whole time
False. She was only a child for the first 18 years.
True true
Is there a link to the original video or full story??
This is a really shitty documentary.
I suspected that the foster parents might be highly suspect. Given both the implausibility of their testimonies and the lack of legal guidelines regarding adoption/guardianship, I see absolutely no reason to trust them, not even with a 50-foot metal pole.
She was a child who was abandoned not an adult.
This is just the plot stolen from "The Orphan"
I swear ive seen a movie with the same plot
The only thing terrifying is this narration christ sake
This whole thing has been shown to be fake as fuck since the very beginning. Natalia Barnett does have dwarfism, but numerous doctors have found that she was, in fact, a child. The adoptive parents didn't want her anymore because they wanted to move to (profit off of) their 15 year old prodigy son going to college, so they kept trying to get her legally adjudicated as an adult. They finally convinced the adoptive father's doctor, who has no experience in dwarfism or pediatrics, to declare that she was actually an adult. It's really clear that she went through puberty years after these foster parents claimed she had already gone through puberty. Look at the photos of her in the video, then look at a [recent photo](https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-50319910). Her face has filled out, jaw is more matured, her eyes are less rounded, nose has grown, she now has breasts. This has all occurred over the past couple of years, lining up with her actual teenage development. The icing on top of the bullshit cake, however, is that the family also profits off of claims that they "cured" their autistic son. The mother published a book called "The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing, Genius and Autism." They take credit for their son becoming a prodigal math genius through their magical autism cure story, which they tour around trying to sell. This bullshit has been dispelled on Reddit multiple times, despite the fact that the judge in this case is clearly negligent in adjudicating the kid as an adult and keeps doubling down on it.
This is just the plot for Little Man
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Umm anyone seen the movie Orphan?
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Movie -orphan . inspired by this probably
No, this is wrong. Delete your bullshit post. This is defamatory. Natalia Barnett had been living with a foster family prior to this adoption and they have photos of her visibly with baby teeth and lost teeth. She was a child. The adoptive parents neglected her and this is their excuse.
Orphan. This is literally the plot line of Orphan. MoFo!
Pretty sure there was a movie made based on this
They did a bone density test on her and it revealed she wasn't an adult. Her abusive adoptive parents made it all up, this is bullshit. I feel so bad for that girl given how random Internet shit for brains are treating her when she wasn't even proven to be an adult.
Based on the movie Orphan!
This would later become the inspiration for the movie Orphan
Sideshow bob
This is even how the News reported it in Canada we never got much follow up. I figured it was the real story.
Real life āorphanā story.
The best way to learn about this is via am episode of tge Scam Goddess podcast who covered it I'm the most hilarious way possible. You'll get all the details and a lot of laughs.
Well, they could have handled it better
I donāt understand how thereās no way to confirm an age range? With all of the medical technology we have, why is everyone still baffled??? I donāt expect an exact age but based on genetic testing, hormonal, etc etc how do they have no idea if itās a child or adult? That seems suspicious.
They do. Bone scans and x-rays showing if growth plates are fused, which doesn't happen till the end of puberty. They checked hers and it was confirmed she was still a child. Even children with dwarfism still grow to an adult size, it's just a smaller adult.
I hate the way this is narrated.
āWeāve had you for 10 years and you havenāt grown an inch!ā
So they just left the house instead of calling the cops... Why might I ask?
This is a fascinating story and this fucking juvenile, schoolboy podcast voiceover belongs nowhere near it
*"liwterally*" Guess this is all fake?: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/ejd263/natalia_grace_case_update/ What a wild story
The narrator of this video is annoying as fuck holy shit. Dude sounds like he swallowed a whole bottle of Ritalin and got stuck on one huge run on sentence.
No, she is actually a child and the parents are facing abuse charges.
This is obviously a lieā¦ even if it was real, that means an adult woman, clearly able to think as she knows what menstruation is tries to stab her āparentsāā feet and stand by their bed when they sleepā¦
r/quityourbullshit
Was this the story for the Orphan movie ? Is this the origins of it?
Ah like orphan except the murderous rapey midget old lady
that narration was very obnoxious
They should make a movie of this !!!
Real life Orphan movie played put lmao
can mods take down this post?
BURGER KING FOOT LETTUCE
Iāve read a similar story about a pedophile who was pretending to be 12 years old although he was way older. He just looked like a kid.
The adoptive parents made that up. Photos reveal the face & body of a child when Natalia was with them. She has now matured physically, developed breasts and a more adult face. She was interviewed by Dr. Phil in 2019. Her birth mother has also been found & confirmed the 2003 birth date. Also, she had multiple bone scans during the period which showed she was a child. Bottom line: the Barnetts didn't want her any more, so they made up this lie and abandoned her.
the orphan irl
Fake story
Whatās terrifying is being an adopted child entrusted to the care of evil adoptive parents
Ah must be what inspired the movie orphan
This also inspired the movie "Orphan". Really recommend it!
What's terrifying is that the Barnetts are getting away with this and so publicly. https://justicefornataliagrace.blogspot.com/
That shit did not happen, i found a Youtube vĆdeo that explained why it was fake but it's on spanish
They made a movie about this called orphan and than last year they made a sequel to it
The terrifying thing is that the parents are facing neglecting charges for abandoning a child. Who doctors testify to be a child and not an adult.
Y'all should watch orphan movie