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Center for discovery dr phil7/22/2023 The Barnetts say professionals told them Natalia was a sociopath and that their family was in danger. According to them, Natalia was threatening them with knives defecating, urinating on and terrorising their youngest son and making attempts on their lives, such as allegedly trying to poison Kristine’s coffee and to drag her into an electric fence. The question of the Natalia’s age, however, paled in comparison to everything else the Barnetts claim was going on inside their home. Therese adds: “I think she definitely looks like she’s at least 18, 20-ish.” I definitely had that baby look to my face.” Now 14 and looking at photos of Natalia at the time, her daughter, Therese, says in the film: “Definitely, I don’t think she looks the same age as me. When Kristine attempted to bathe their new daughter, however, she was shocked to discover pubic hair it wasn’t long before the adoptive mother discovered that Natalia had been hiding her menstrual cycle, she claimed. Natalia seemed happy to join our family.” We were all excited to have her in the family. “The fun times I can remember with Natalia are pretty much from that first week where we were in Florida,” Jacob Barnett, now an adult, says in the docuseries, speaking from his room in his father’s Indiana basement. Things went south quickly after the Barnetts picked up Natalia at the Florida adoption center. By then, however, the family’s idyllic setup had disintegrated. The oldest of their three sons, Jacob, was an academic prodigy diagnosed with Asperger’s Michael’s wife, Kristine, would publish a book about raising him in 2013. So entered the Barnetts, who in 2010 were at “the pinnacle of life,” Michael Barnett says in the new docuseries, boasting of the family’s “thirteen TVs, we’ve got 14 couches, there was hundreds of thousands of dollars in the bank account,” he says in 2019 footage.
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