IN - Couple charged with abandonment of adopted child after legally changing her age, Sept 2019 #2 *not guilty*
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After watching this docuseries I came away knowing only two things to be entirely true... 1) the Barnetts are quite possibly the worst foster parents in the world and 2) Michael definitely needs to come clean about a few more "things"
This is the good article describing the situation/trial for the new people. And I still don't understand why that order re-aging her can't be reversed. She has a lot of documents showing she was born in 2003, and medical records such as x-rays showing she was a child, while the judge who re-aged her appear to have based it mostly on the affidavit from Michael's primary doctor, who is obviously not a specialist in dwarfism, or aging, and so on. So basically she was re-aged on the evidence obtained out of thin air, while she wasn't even present in court, and nobody was representing her interests. Why exactly can't this be reversed? It's absurd.
"As she testified Wednesday, she was either 19 or 33, but the jurors will never hear of her age, according to her birth records because the court cannot reverse the Marion County court's order that changed Natalia’s birth year."
"As she testified Wednesday, she was either 19 or 33, but the jurors will never hear of her age, according to her birth records because the court cannot reverse the Marion County court's order that changed Natalia’s birth year."
Natalia Barnett testifies against adoptive father in trial alleging neglect
Natalia Barnett, with severe dwarfism, has been at the center of a neglect and abandonment case that captured international news coverage.
www.jconline.com
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I started watching the first episode last night, and when he said he had a Lamborghini, that set my hinky meter off right away. Why would a family man even WANT one of those?
All I knew going into this was that there was a story a few years ago about a "child" who was adopted under suspect circumstances, and while I know that girls go through puberty earlier than boys, if I undressed a "6-year-old" and they had, as Michael put it, full pubic hair, I'd be high-tailing it to the emergency room.
(I have a cousin who was starting to sprout pubic and underarm hair at age six, and she was put on puberty blockers until she was 9 years old.)
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I've heard of that operation. It was invented during the polio era, and also post-WWII, mainly to treat legs of unequal length, which can cause scoliosis and other serious issues. It was never intended to simply make a person taller.
Funny I just read about a 6-foot tall guy who did this surgery to get to six feet seven inches.
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I also noticed during that first episode that there was no mention of any of these kids being in school. What's up with that?
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That doctor should have their license revoked.
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So should the doctor who claimed NB was an adult in court...jmho of course.
If you are talking about Barnett's sons, at some point they were being homeschooled.
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And yet, here we are...
Meet the Men Paying Six Figures to Get Taller—by Having Their Legs Broken
A growing number of men are undergoing a radical and expensive surgery to grow anywhere from three to six inches. The catch: It requires having both your femurs broken. GQ goes inside the booming world of leg lengthening.
You can do these procedures for people with dwarfism as well, which is also controversial. It could be done for achondroplasia, though, not Natalia's condition. She doesn't just have short legs, she has all kind of other issues. She needed different kinds of surgeries.And yet, here we are...
Meet the Men Paying Six Figures to Get Taller—by Having Their Legs Broken
A growing number of men are undergoing a radical and expensive surgery to grow anywhere from three to six inches. The catch: It requires having both your femurs broken. GQ goes inside the booming world of leg lengthening.www.gq.com
She has the exact same dwarfism as Matt Roloff, and he had multiple surgeries on his legs. But i don't think Natalia got the surgeries she needed, since she got re-aged by US court. She got re-aged and that made her a legal adult. So nobody was responsible for her.
I don't know if pubic hair claims can even be believed. But even if true, there is a condition called precocious puberty. It doesn't make someone an adult.
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The story about Jacob being a child prodigy is apparently true, and like most prodigies who are paraded around by their parents, he eventually crashed and burned.
You can see a "60 Minutes" episode about him (Natalia's in it, in a dinner-table scene) and he also did a TED talk and has a YouTube channel that he hasn't added anything do in quite a few years. The "60 Minutes" episode is also viewable on YT.
I deleted the unwatched episodes from my Tivo, because everyone's saying they're poor quality and don't really give much information.
Yep, the genius is living in his father's basement.
A child can even have pubic hair without other sexual development symptoms. If somebody thinks that pubic hair makes child an adult they need to have their head examined. I don't see any breast development in her early photos, she clearly looks a lot more mature now that she is 19.
"Similarly, some girls and boys may have early growth of pubic and/or underarm hair or body odor that isn't related to other changes in sexual development. This is called premature adrenarche (ah-druh-NAR-kee)."
kidshealth.org
"Similarly, some girls and boys may have early growth of pubic and/or underarm hair or body odor that isn't related to other changes in sexual development. This is called premature adrenarche (ah-druh-NAR-kee)."
Precocious Puberty (for Parents) - Nemours KidsHealth
Precocious puberty - when signs of puberty start before age 7 or 8 in girls and age 9 for boys - can be tough for kids. But it can be treated.
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The kids in this family were all damaged by this set of humans. Not a single on of them deserved the crappy choices these people made on their behalf, though behalf is not really a good word because these decisions were done to benefit the adults. This young woman has suffered greatly but she has found love and care. These young men have no one in line to help save them. I feel bad for all of the children who were part of this awful situation.
Their biological offspring were not left alone in the apartment to fend for themselves. I find what happened to Natalia absolutely outrageous.
Her biological mother gave her up because of her disabilities and she ended up in an orphange as a newborn. She was adopted from a foreign country, then that first family gave her up. She eventually ended up adopted by the Barnetts, who had the court to re-age her into a legal adult and left her alone in an apartment to fend for herself. Because she was legally re-aged, prosecution couldn't even present evidence that she wasn't even 9 yet when left alone in the apartment. And because the court re-aged her, she couldn't even go to school or get any other benefits children are supposed to get. She also didn't get the medical care she needed for her severe disabilities. It's a miracle she is alive.
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No argument from me on any point. I have always posted that these adults were horrible and that this young woman deserved better. The other children are also damaged was my point and this young woman seems to be the only one who has found adults who truly have her best interest at heart.
I'm sure this is an unpopular opinion but I do have a bit of sympathy for michael. I don't think he's blameless but kristine was clearly the driving force behind what happened to natalia and michael is a victim of hers. Not to the same degree that natalia is but a victim nonetheless.