1 00:00:06,867 --> 00:00:08,166 [sighs] 2 00:00:09,867 --> 00:00:12,567 I just thought it would just be a normal thing. 3 00:00:12,567 --> 00:00:15,433 I could just talk to him, hear him out. 4 00:00:17,367 --> 00:00:18,934 And then this happens. 5 00:00:19,500 --> 00:00:22,667 I tried. I tried. I tried. 6 00:00:22,734 --> 00:00:25,000 -No! No! No! -Let me talk to you. Let me-- 7 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:26,166 Leave me alone! 8 00:00:27,567 --> 00:00:30,266 I still have stuff I wanna ask him. 9 00:00:30,333 --> 00:00:34,133 Why couldn't he have been brave enough to get me out of that house? 10 00:00:35,900 --> 00:00:37,967 [Antwon] His spirit's irritated. 11 00:00:37,967 --> 00:00:39,467 -That's what it is. -It is! 12 00:00:39,467 --> 00:00:42,166 God is in control. Ain't none of this stuff gonna happen. 13 00:00:42,166 --> 00:00:43,367 Period. 14 00:00:43,367 --> 00:00:45,100 He shouldn't have came at you like that. 15 00:00:45,100 --> 00:00:47,166 -He should not have came at you like that. -Hey, at the end of the day, 16 00:00:47,233 --> 00:00:50,000 I ain't intimidated by no devil. 17 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:51,967 That... That's you 18 00:00:51,967 --> 00:00:53,767 who has to live with what you did. 19 00:00:53,834 --> 00:00:55,467 You wanna come up in here 20 00:00:55,467 --> 00:00:57,166 and play like you're a victim, 21 00:00:57,166 --> 00:00:59,367 "Oh, we've been victimized by the same person." 22 00:00:59,433 --> 00:01:01,667 -Boy, you ain't been-- We aged. -That's right. 23 00:01:01,667 --> 00:01:03,467 That's why I asked him, "What do you mean by victimized?" 24 00:01:03,533 --> 00:01:04,867 You ain't went through nothing! 25 00:01:04,867 --> 00:01:06,934 You still walking free! 26 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:10,667 You're supposed to be a man. You up here talking about 27 00:01:10,667 --> 00:01:13,066 some girl made you do some-- Come on, man. 28 00:01:13,133 --> 00:01:15,467 You ain't about to weasel your way out of this. 29 00:01:15,467 --> 00:01:16,667 -And say somebody-- -No, it's not. 30 00:01:16,667 --> 00:01:18,767 She didn't put a gun to your head and make you do it. 31 00:01:18,767 --> 00:01:21,266 She didn't make you go to court and sign those papers. 32 00:01:21,333 --> 00:01:23,567 -Right. -You're trying to be something based off that. 33 00:01:23,567 --> 00:01:27,433 He's gotta come back and man up and stop being a little, whiny baby. 34 00:01:30,867 --> 00:01:33,467 For me, that walkout from Michael 35 00:01:33,467 --> 00:01:35,133 was him running away again. 36 00:01:36,900 --> 00:01:38,734 You ran away from fighting for your kids. 37 00:01:40,100 --> 00:01:43,166 You let Kristine do everything that she did. 38 00:01:43,166 --> 00:01:46,667 When I was trying to defend myself, you walked out. 39 00:01:46,667 --> 00:01:49,166 Every time something happened, 40 00:01:49,166 --> 00:01:52,734 you wouldn't say anything. You was silent and then you would leave. 41 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:56,266 You ran away. 42 00:01:56,567 --> 00:01:57,634 Per usual. 43 00:01:59,166 --> 00:02:01,433 [theme music playing] 44 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,667 Based upon what we know at this point, 45 00:02:15,734 --> 00:02:18,266 it seems like the Barnett's were determined 46 00:02:18,266 --> 00:02:20,367 to re-age Natalia as an adult. 47 00:02:20,367 --> 00:02:22,667 Kristine will stop at nothing 48 00:02:22,734 --> 00:02:24,433 to make sure that happens. 49 00:02:34,266 --> 00:02:35,166 Yes. 50 00:02:35,166 --> 00:02:36,634 And Natalia said, 51 00:02:38,967 --> 00:02:42,533 "I have a period. 52 00:02:43,700 --> 00:02:46,767 And I've been hiding it from you 53 00:02:46,767 --> 00:02:48,467 'cause I don't want you to know." 54 00:02:49,700 --> 00:02:51,967 So I asked her, "How do you do it?" 55 00:02:56,967 --> 00:02:59,166 She said, when she goes to the bathroom, 56 00:02:59,166 --> 00:03:00,667 and there's any there, 57 00:03:00,667 --> 00:03:02,667 she wipes it off off her leg, 58 00:03:02,667 --> 00:03:05,166 and she eats it and licks it, 59 00:03:05,166 --> 00:03:07,233 so nobody will ever find out. 60 00:03:14,567 --> 00:03:16,567 That's downright disgusting. 61 00:03:16,634 --> 00:03:17,967 That's crazy. 62 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:22,433 I'mma tell you what really happened. 63 00:03:23,367 --> 00:03:24,967 I was seven years old, 64 00:03:24,967 --> 00:03:28,000 and all of a sudden, Kristine just, 65 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:32,000 I feel like, convinced me that I was having my period. 66 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,166 Kristine, literally, like, just said, 67 00:03:35,166 --> 00:03:36,667 "You started your period," 68 00:03:36,667 --> 00:03:39,533 And then she made-- She forced me to put the tampon in. 69 00:03:41,100 --> 00:03:43,000 And then... 70 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,367 I literally just told her, "I can't." 71 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:48,233 Like, "I can't do it, it hurts." 72 00:03:49,100 --> 00:03:50,567 But Kristine just kept telling me, 73 00:03:50,634 --> 00:03:51,567 "You need to put it in." 74 00:03:51,634 --> 00:03:53,333 She made me do it, 75 00:03:54,467 --> 00:03:55,734 but I couldn't. 76 00:03:57,867 --> 00:04:00,367 And she was mad, I remember that. 77 00:04:00,433 --> 00:04:01,767 I remember Kristine being mad 78 00:04:01,767 --> 00:04:02,567 because I couldn't do it. 79 00:04:02,567 --> 00:04:06,066 So, when I was able to take it out, 80 00:04:06,066 --> 00:04:07,266 there was blood on it, 81 00:04:07,266 --> 00:04:09,367 because of the fact that... 82 00:04:09,367 --> 00:04:12,166 Like, I'm seven years old. I'm not even supposed to be 83 00:04:12,166 --> 00:04:13,667 having that right now. 84 00:04:13,667 --> 00:04:16,000 [sniffles] And... 85 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,667 She would... She said, "See. You had your period." 86 00:04:19,667 --> 00:04:22,367 And I couldn't say anything about it. I... 87 00:04:26,867 --> 00:04:29,333 And it hurt so bad. 88 00:04:32,066 --> 00:04:34,066 And I was scared. 89 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:38,266 [sobbing] 90 00:04:50,567 --> 00:04:52,467 [whispers] I need a minute. 91 00:04:55,700 --> 00:04:57,066 [sobs] 92 00:04:59,500 --> 00:05:02,367 [Beth] If what Natalia says is true, 93 00:05:02,433 --> 00:05:03,667 it's symbolic. 94 00:05:03,667 --> 00:05:07,767 Kristine was forcing an age on Natalia 95 00:05:07,767 --> 00:05:11,066 and also forced her to use a tampon, 96 00:05:11,066 --> 00:05:13,767 and then use this abuse of Natalia 97 00:05:13,767 --> 00:05:15,467 as evidence of her age. 98 00:05:15,533 --> 00:05:20,166 Kristine would do anything to make sure Natalia would fit her narrative, her plan. 99 00:05:20,367 --> 00:05:21,734 Anything. 100 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:26,967 Medical experts have told the Barnetts 101 00:05:26,967 --> 00:05:28,967 that Natalia is a child. 102 00:05:28,967 --> 00:05:31,467 But that doesn't fit the plan. 103 00:05:31,533 --> 00:05:35,367 The problem is, Kristine needs Natalia 104 00:05:35,367 --> 00:05:37,266 to say that she's an adult. 105 00:05:37,266 --> 00:05:39,100 To get rid of her. 106 00:05:39,100 --> 00:05:41,367 So, according to Michael and Natalia, 107 00:05:41,433 --> 00:05:44,166 Kristine beats Natalia, 108 00:05:44,166 --> 00:05:47,066 severely, until she breaks her will. 109 00:05:47,066 --> 00:05:50,767 And Natalia would one hundred percent go along with the plan, 110 00:05:50,767 --> 00:05:52,467 and tell people she's an adult. 111 00:05:55,567 --> 00:05:57,967 I would just-- I just wanna say something really personal. 112 00:05:57,967 --> 00:05:59,567 I don't talk about my personal life much 113 00:05:59,567 --> 00:06:01,767 but I grew up with two disabled brothers. 114 00:06:01,767 --> 00:06:04,066 They passed away as young adults. 115 00:06:04,133 --> 00:06:07,367 But my mother would do anything 116 00:06:07,433 --> 00:06:09,867 for my brothers, for me, my sister. 117 00:06:09,867 --> 00:06:11,767 There was a lot of love there. 118 00:06:11,834 --> 00:06:14,467 And Natalia, she deserved that kind of love 119 00:06:14,467 --> 00:06:16,367 from her mother, and she didn't get it 120 00:06:16,967 --> 00:06:18,834 from Kristine, that's for sure. 121 00:06:24,066 --> 00:06:25,867 [Natalia] I was terrified of her. 122 00:06:26,467 --> 00:06:27,667 I was terrified. 123 00:06:27,734 --> 00:06:31,166 So when Kristine told me to tell people that I was 22, 124 00:06:31,233 --> 00:06:33,066 I listened, because I didn't know 125 00:06:33,066 --> 00:06:34,100 what she would have me do. 126 00:06:34,100 --> 00:06:35,734 I didn't know what she would do to me. 127 00:06:37,767 --> 00:06:41,667 She threatened me into telling people lies. 128 00:06:42,667 --> 00:06:45,367 At first, I said, "No, I'm a kid." 129 00:06:46,100 --> 00:06:47,233 And... 130 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,667 I guess, she just got so mad... 131 00:06:52,367 --> 00:06:53,734 She just... 132 00:07:01,767 --> 00:07:05,767 That's when Kristine, literally, took me to my room 133 00:07:05,767 --> 00:07:10,066 and she just started hitting me with a belt. 134 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,367 And she hit me with a belt in my back, 135 00:07:15,433 --> 00:07:16,367 my legs. 136 00:07:16,367 --> 00:07:18,767 And like just... 137 00:07:18,767 --> 00:07:20,433 [sniffles] 138 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:23,433 Just anywhere she could. 139 00:07:26,266 --> 00:07:28,667 I remember trying to move, but... 140 00:07:29,700 --> 00:07:32,100 She would-- Like, she just kept telling me to stop moving 141 00:07:32,100 --> 00:07:33,433 And she would just hit me harder. 142 00:07:37,467 --> 00:07:39,734 Like, why would you do that? 143 00:07:41,367 --> 00:07:42,834 And it hurt. 144 00:07:43,100 --> 00:07:44,634 It hurt a lot. 145 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:50,166 [sniffles] 146 00:07:50,166 --> 00:07:53,166 It hurt because these people were supposed to be 147 00:07:53,166 --> 00:07:55,467 the ones to love me, to take care of me. 148 00:07:56,667 --> 00:07:58,166 But all they did, 149 00:07:58,233 --> 00:07:59,934 was just hurt me. 150 00:08:01,667 --> 00:08:03,467 Michael didn't say a word. 151 00:08:03,467 --> 00:08:06,066 He just sat there and watched it happen. 152 00:08:06,133 --> 00:08:07,734 And didn't say anything. 153 00:08:14,767 --> 00:08:17,967 She would use her open hand to hit. 154 00:08:18,033 --> 00:08:20,266 When Kristine's arms and fists got tired, 155 00:08:20,266 --> 00:08:22,734 she started using her forearms and her elbows. 156 00:08:24,066 --> 00:08:26,233 Until Kristine couldn't do it no more. 157 00:08:27,266 --> 00:08:28,734 I didn't know what to do. 158 00:08:29,767 --> 00:08:31,367 I was-- I was just frozen. 159 00:08:31,433 --> 00:08:32,934 I have a... 160 00:08:34,500 --> 00:08:36,967 sociopathic con artist, potentially, 161 00:08:37,033 --> 00:08:39,967 and my wife, mother of my children, 162 00:08:40,033 --> 00:08:41,166 and there were... 163 00:08:41,233 --> 00:08:43,567 there's no-- There's no way out of this. 164 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:46,333 I didn't know what to do. 165 00:08:47,266 --> 00:08:48,734 Michael watched 166 00:08:50,100 --> 00:08:52,867 Natalia being physically attacked. 167 00:08:52,934 --> 00:08:54,433 That was his daughter. 168 00:08:56,367 --> 00:08:58,967 He had the obligation to protect her. 169 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:01,867 And he failed that obligation. 170 00:09:01,934 --> 00:09:03,266 Like, you're supposed to be my dad. 171 00:09:03,333 --> 00:09:05,133 You're supposed to be the one to protect me. 172 00:09:05,900 --> 00:09:08,066 But he... He just let it go. 173 00:09:08,066 --> 00:09:10,934 Then they just locked me in my room for the rest of that night. 174 00:09:12,367 --> 00:09:13,567 That was it. 175 00:09:13,567 --> 00:09:16,734 I remember crying myself to sleep that night, because... 176 00:09:17,700 --> 00:09:20,934 I was mad, I was scared. 177 00:09:22,667 --> 00:09:26,166 And like, I trusted Michael and Kristine. 178 00:09:26,166 --> 00:09:29,066 Because they were supposed to be my parents. 179 00:09:30,100 --> 00:09:32,367 I didn't know what to do. 180 00:09:32,367 --> 00:09:34,867 [Veronica] If what Natalia says is true, 181 00:09:34,867 --> 00:09:40,667 Kristine Barnett's dominant behavior over Natalia, 182 00:09:40,667 --> 00:09:45,367 and the extreme type of force that she used 183 00:09:45,367 --> 00:09:50,266 tell me that there was a monster 184 00:09:50,333 --> 00:09:54,133 that operated in Kristine Barnett's mind. 185 00:09:55,266 --> 00:09:57,934 She was gonna dominate and she was gonna be the winner. 186 00:09:59,667 --> 00:10:02,767 As an agent, my favorite part of the job 187 00:10:02,834 --> 00:10:04,266 is talking to people. 188 00:10:04,266 --> 00:10:05,967 To find out the truth. 189 00:10:05,967 --> 00:10:07,433 [knocking at door] 190 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:11,066 -[Natalia] Hi. -[Veronica] Hello, how are you? 191 00:10:11,133 --> 00:10:12,333 [Natalia] I'm good. ow are you? 192 00:10:15,100 --> 00:10:17,967 Kristine, I think, she was just trying 193 00:10:18,033 --> 00:10:21,667 to drill it in my head that I was an adult. 194 00:10:21,667 --> 00:10:25,667 Have you worked with anybody that was 195 00:10:25,667 --> 00:10:28,867 brainwashed, or was like, told to repeat stuff? 196 00:10:28,867 --> 00:10:33,367 Of course. I had a long career as an investigator. 197 00:10:33,433 --> 00:10:35,266 And I worked for the FBI. 198 00:10:35,266 --> 00:10:38,867 Which also included crimes against children. 199 00:10:38,867 --> 00:10:42,867 So, that's how I sort of got involved in your case. 200 00:10:42,867 --> 00:10:46,467 The idea that there are many, many layers 201 00:10:46,467 --> 00:10:48,100 of Natalia's life 202 00:10:48,100 --> 00:10:51,767 And to see someone who's so fragile, that you were. 203 00:10:51,767 --> 00:10:54,433 And then as you continue in your life, 204 00:10:55,367 --> 00:10:58,367 you still have the ability to face it. 205 00:10:58,367 --> 00:11:01,667 I'm the kind of person who says, "Face your fears." 206 00:11:01,734 --> 00:11:03,567 I really believe that stuff. 207 00:11:03,567 --> 00:11:07,166 I don't like talking about it but I know I have to. 208 00:11:09,367 --> 00:11:14,467 I feel that Natalia, she has been, repeatedly, victimized. 209 00:11:14,467 --> 00:11:17,967 You knew that people were forcing you 210 00:11:17,967 --> 00:11:20,567 to do things that you knew were wrong 211 00:11:20,567 --> 00:11:22,166 You knew it felt wrong. 212 00:11:22,233 --> 00:11:23,734 Nothing felt right. 213 00:11:24,100 --> 00:11:25,533 You were surviving. 214 00:11:28,667 --> 00:11:31,066 [Kristine] We're gonna have to take you to a doctor. 215 00:11:31,900 --> 00:11:34,533 What do you think? You need to go see a doctor? 216 00:11:34,867 --> 00:11:36,467 I don't know. 217 00:11:36,467 --> 00:11:38,634 [Beth] 22 seems to be 218 00:11:39,266 --> 00:11:40,367 the magic number 219 00:11:40,367 --> 00:11:43,767 the Barnetts are looking to re-age Natalia to. 220 00:11:43,867 --> 00:11:44,934 Why? 221 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:49,967 [Jackie] Kristine is very insistent 222 00:11:49,967 --> 00:11:52,266 that Natalia is an adult. 223 00:11:52,266 --> 00:11:54,367 To the point that she has taught Natalia 224 00:11:54,367 --> 00:11:56,266 to introduce herself by saying, 225 00:11:56,333 --> 00:11:59,333 "I may look young, but I'm 22." 226 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:01,567 So, it was interesting 227 00:12:01,567 --> 00:12:04,867 that Indiana Statute 31-16-6-6 228 00:12:06,166 --> 00:12:09,367 stated that a parent was responsible for a child, 229 00:12:09,367 --> 00:12:11,533 until the child emancipated at age 21. 230 00:12:13,567 --> 00:12:16,166 The Barnetts would have been responsible for Natalia 231 00:12:16,166 --> 00:12:17,867 until she was age 21. 232 00:12:21,367 --> 00:12:25,467 [Beth] The Barnetts needed a fool-proof plan to get rid of Natalia. 233 00:12:25,467 --> 00:12:28,967 And they didn't know how long it would take to re-age her. 234 00:12:28,967 --> 00:12:31,333 Or even if it would actually work. 235 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:36,066 So it seems Kristine hatched a three-pronged plan 236 00:12:36,066 --> 00:12:38,367 to get rid of Natalia forever. 237 00:12:38,433 --> 00:12:40,567 Get her re-aged, 238 00:12:40,567 --> 00:12:44,667 get Natalia locked up in a psychiatric facility, 239 00:12:45,367 --> 00:12:47,867 or get her locked up in prison. 240 00:12:47,867 --> 00:12:50,133 One of them was bound to succeed. 241 00:12:52,367 --> 00:12:55,000 The first time that Natalia ended up at the Stress Center, 242 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,734 that was the incident with Pledge in the coffee. 243 00:12:59,100 --> 00:13:00,567 It's a morning. 244 00:13:01,667 --> 00:13:04,567 Natalia was actually in a pretty good mood, that morning. 245 00:13:05,700 --> 00:13:08,467 She asked Kristine if Kristine would like Natalia 246 00:13:08,533 --> 00:13:10,667 to help clean up in the kitchen. 247 00:13:10,667 --> 00:13:13,100 Kristine says, "Yeah, absolutely." 248 00:13:13,100 --> 00:13:16,634 So Natalia gets on a stool, starts rinsing the dishes off, in the sink. 249 00:13:17,467 --> 00:13:19,467 I happen to be a couple of rooms away. 250 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:23,066 Kristine goes to the other room, for a moment. 251 00:13:23,133 --> 00:13:25,433 And she's got a coffee cup sitting on the counter. 252 00:13:27,500 --> 00:13:31,734 Natalia put the Pledge into her coffee cup that had coffee in it. 253 00:13:35,967 --> 00:13:38,266 Kristine goes walking to check on Natalia. 254 00:13:42,967 --> 00:13:46,734 And Kristine tried to drink it and instantly tasted Pledge. 255 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:48,767 I hear screams. 256 00:13:49,767 --> 00:13:51,166 I come running. 257 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:54,266 Kristine had yelled at Natalia. 258 00:13:54,333 --> 00:13:56,266 "Did you put this into my coffee?" 259 00:13:56,266 --> 00:13:58,066 Natalia said, "Yes." 260 00:13:58,066 --> 00:14:01,166 Kristine yelled at Natalia, "Why did you do this?" 261 00:14:01,166 --> 00:14:03,734 Natalia yelled back, "Because I want to kill you." 262 00:14:09,967 --> 00:14:11,333 [Natalia] It's not true. 263 00:14:12,700 --> 00:14:14,467 None of it was true. 264 00:14:14,467 --> 00:14:15,967 After all, at this point, 265 00:14:16,033 --> 00:14:18,667 Kristine was beating me for months. 266 00:14:18,667 --> 00:14:21,967 And then, everybody thinks that I'm some crazy person 267 00:14:21,967 --> 00:14:24,266 trying to pour something in their coffee. 268 00:14:24,266 --> 00:14:26,233 Or in their drink, whatever it is. 269 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:28,934 That's not who I am. 270 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:34,467 I think Kristine was just trying to find an excuse to say I was crazy. 271 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:40,667 The story about that is something completely different. 272 00:14:42,100 --> 00:14:44,166 I was helping Kristine clean up the kitchen. 273 00:14:44,166 --> 00:14:46,967 It was one of the good days, you could say. 274 00:14:47,867 --> 00:14:51,567 And she had this, like, table cleaner. 275 00:14:51,567 --> 00:14:53,166 And she was spraying it on the table, 276 00:14:53,233 --> 00:14:54,667 and I was helping her wipe it down. 277 00:14:58,166 --> 00:15:00,166 She had walked out for a second. 278 00:15:01,467 --> 00:15:04,266 I noticed a spot that needed some more 279 00:15:04,266 --> 00:15:07,467 so I went, I moved the chair and climbed on it. 280 00:15:08,266 --> 00:15:10,667 I scooted her coffee away, 281 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:12,333 sprayed it, 282 00:15:13,266 --> 00:15:15,467 and as I was wiping the table off, 283 00:15:15,467 --> 00:15:17,367 Kristine came back in and was like, 284 00:15:17,433 --> 00:15:20,166 "What did you spray in my coffee?" I was like, "Nothing." 285 00:15:22,166 --> 00:15:24,166 Like, you could have looked into that coffee, 286 00:15:24,166 --> 00:15:25,834 there was nothing wrong with it. 287 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:28,767 She poured the coffee out. 288 00:15:28,767 --> 00:15:32,467 Refilled it. Went to go get her camera. 289 00:15:32,467 --> 00:15:34,033 And made me do it. 290 00:15:35,967 --> 00:15:39,367 And I told her. I was like, "I didn't do it." 291 00:15:39,367 --> 00:15:42,367 And she's like, "You're lying. Do it." 292 00:15:42,433 --> 00:15:44,667 And then she literally grabbed my hand 293 00:15:44,667 --> 00:15:47,634 and made me spray it, in the coffee. 294 00:15:52,166 --> 00:15:54,467 I think that Kristine tried to create that video 295 00:15:54,467 --> 00:15:57,667 to try to have some sort of "proof". 296 00:15:57,667 --> 00:15:59,266 Like... I can't even do that. 297 00:15:59,266 --> 00:16:01,266 Like, proof that... 298 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:03,934 I did something that I didn't do. 299 00:16:05,266 --> 00:16:07,333 She staged that whole thing. 300 00:16:08,567 --> 00:16:10,133 I'm not crazy. 301 00:16:12,367 --> 00:16:14,567 I did not try to poison her. 302 00:16:17,066 --> 00:16:18,967 [Beth] The Barnetts had convinced themselves 303 00:16:18,967 --> 00:16:21,066 that Natalia was an adult, 304 00:16:21,066 --> 00:16:23,133 pretending to be a child. 305 00:16:23,667 --> 00:16:26,467 And a violent sociopath 306 00:16:26,467 --> 00:16:28,333 who wanted to kill them. 307 00:16:31,266 --> 00:16:33,867 Now, they had to convince the world. 308 00:17:44,467 --> 00:17:46,166 [Beth] It appears Kristine's plan 309 00:17:46,166 --> 00:17:48,533 to get rid of Natalia is working. 310 00:17:50,367 --> 00:17:52,367 The Barnetts are telling neighbors, 311 00:17:52,433 --> 00:17:54,166 social workers and doctors 312 00:17:54,166 --> 00:17:57,000 that Natalia is crazy and dangerous. 313 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,066 And everyone believes them. 314 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:04,066 Kristine and Michael told people that I was 315 00:18:04,133 --> 00:18:07,100 a danger to myself and the family. 316 00:18:07,100 --> 00:18:08,767 That I wanted to kill them. 317 00:18:08,767 --> 00:18:11,266 And that I was hiding knives. 318 00:18:11,333 --> 00:18:12,867 And trying to poison them. 319 00:18:12,934 --> 00:18:15,934 And that I was hearing voices telling me to do those things. 320 00:18:17,867 --> 00:18:19,433 Which was not true at all. 321 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:28,266 [Michael] Natalia is tricking people into thinking she is an innocent person. 322 00:18:29,700 --> 00:18:31,367 "Oh, no, no, no, no, I never wanted to hurt anybody. 323 00:18:31,433 --> 00:18:32,867 I never tried to hurt anybody. 324 00:18:32,867 --> 00:18:34,367 I loved Michael and Kristine. 325 00:18:34,367 --> 00:18:35,767 I just wanna be with them. 326 00:18:35,834 --> 00:18:37,634 I just wanna be a part of their family." 327 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:39,367 You got lies. 328 00:18:39,367 --> 00:18:41,467 But if you know what you're listening for, you can identify 'em. 329 00:18:41,467 --> 00:18:45,467 I have two years of doctor's notes that said, repeatedly, 330 00:18:45,467 --> 00:18:49,467 "Patient wants to kill mother." "Patient wants to kill sons." 331 00:18:49,467 --> 00:18:53,100 "I hated them. I threatened to kill them 332 00:18:53,100 --> 00:18:55,066 I tried to kill them." 333 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:58,266 There was one night, 334 00:18:58,333 --> 00:19:00,767 Kristine and I woke up, middle of the night. 335 00:19:00,767 --> 00:19:03,667 Natalia's standing at the foot of our bed, 336 00:19:03,734 --> 00:19:05,033 holding on to a knife. 337 00:19:05,667 --> 00:19:07,367 Holding it like this. 338 00:19:07,367 --> 00:19:10,867 It's not like Michael Myers way to, you know, that. 339 00:19:10,867 --> 00:19:14,133 But she is standing at the foot of our bed, holding the knife. 340 00:19:15,767 --> 00:19:18,867 It's hard to believe anything they say. 341 00:19:18,867 --> 00:19:22,166 Because everything that the Barnetts have said is a lie. 342 00:19:22,233 --> 00:19:25,667 From the very beginning, about all the make-believe stuff 343 00:19:25,734 --> 00:19:28,967 that they came up with, that they got from off a movie. 344 00:19:29,033 --> 00:19:32,066 I wish I seriously believe that they should be sued for that. 345 00:19:32,066 --> 00:19:33,634 It's a lie. 346 00:19:34,367 --> 00:19:35,634 For one... 347 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:40,133 their bed was literally at the height of, 348 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:41,867 like, right here, 349 00:19:41,867 --> 00:19:43,233 when I was really little. 350 00:19:44,567 --> 00:19:47,767 And y'all saying I was standing at the end of the bed? 351 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:52,166 I could barely even see over the bedpost that they had. 352 00:19:52,166 --> 00:19:55,266 Second, I ain't that strong. 353 00:19:55,333 --> 00:19:58,967 I'm a eight-year-old, 37-pound little girl. 354 00:19:58,967 --> 00:20:01,100 If I try to even stab you or anything, 355 00:20:01,100 --> 00:20:02,667 I wouldn't have been able to do it. 356 00:20:03,767 --> 00:20:06,667 Like, I literally-- I can't bend my fingers 357 00:20:06,667 --> 00:20:08,533 to even grip a knife like that. 358 00:20:16,700 --> 00:20:19,266 Kristine and Michael have said that I've 359 00:20:19,266 --> 00:20:21,266 just held knives at the end of their bed. 360 00:20:21,333 --> 00:20:23,000 Saying that I wanted to hurt them, 361 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:24,266 and kill them and their family. 362 00:20:24,266 --> 00:20:27,233 And literally I can't-- I can't even grip it. 363 00:20:27,967 --> 00:20:29,467 It's just-- It's loose in my hand. 364 00:20:29,533 --> 00:20:31,000 And I can't hold it for that long. 365 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:32,467 It gets tiring 366 00:20:32,467 --> 00:20:36,166 because I am, pretty much, like, using a muscle that I can't really use. 367 00:20:37,367 --> 00:20:39,834 I never tried to murder anybody. 368 00:20:41,467 --> 00:20:42,867 Like I said, 369 00:20:42,867 --> 00:20:45,000 everything that Kristine said, 370 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:46,834 she copied off the Orphan. 371 00:20:49,700 --> 00:20:54,100 Kristine would get Natalia to go around telling 372 00:20:54,100 --> 00:20:58,066 full-on strangers that she is much older than she is. 373 00:20:58,133 --> 00:21:01,467 And also, that she is prone to violence. 374 00:21:01,467 --> 00:21:06,066 Kristine and Michael decided they need a multiple-pronged assault. 375 00:21:07,367 --> 00:21:09,667 If the one option didn't work out, 376 00:21:09,667 --> 00:21:12,467 that they could track the other option. 377 00:21:12,467 --> 00:21:14,667 Which is to build a case against her 378 00:21:14,734 --> 00:21:17,000 as mentally defective. 379 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,767 And what better way than have the kid 380 00:21:19,834 --> 00:21:23,467 go around telling people that she is a violent person 381 00:21:23,467 --> 00:21:26,367 with, you know, sadistic tendencies? 382 00:21:26,367 --> 00:21:29,433 And that she thinks about hurting her family. 383 00:21:30,367 --> 00:21:32,433 This was perfect for them. 384 00:21:34,100 --> 00:21:35,767 [Beth] In June of 2012, 385 00:21:35,834 --> 00:21:39,266 the Barnetts finally succeeded in getting Natalia committed 386 00:21:39,266 --> 00:21:42,166 to Larue Carter Psychiatric Facility. 387 00:21:59,467 --> 00:22:03,033 [Natalia] I remember being admitted. 388 00:22:03,900 --> 00:22:06,166 When I first got to the building, 389 00:22:06,233 --> 00:22:08,867 I didn't know what kind of hospital it actually was. 390 00:22:08,867 --> 00:22:12,266 I just... Like, I thought it was just like a normal hospital. 391 00:22:12,266 --> 00:22:14,066 But then it was like, once I went in, 392 00:22:14,066 --> 00:22:17,367 and then I'd seen all the people that were actually in Larue Carter, 393 00:22:17,433 --> 00:22:21,467 it was like a... one of them, like, old creepy hospital movies. 394 00:22:21,467 --> 00:22:23,667 It was just super creepy. 395 00:22:23,667 --> 00:22:25,166 I'm just like-- I'm super confused. 396 00:22:25,233 --> 00:22:27,867 I'm like, "Why are we here? Like, what is this?" 397 00:22:27,934 --> 00:22:29,367 And then, when they admitted me, 398 00:22:29,367 --> 00:22:30,767 and they had brought me to this room-- 399 00:22:30,767 --> 00:22:33,033 Like, it was just all empty. 400 00:22:33,867 --> 00:22:36,367 Except for a bed in the middle of the room. 401 00:22:36,433 --> 00:22:39,166 It, literally, like... Just looking at the room, it wasn't that big. 402 00:22:39,166 --> 00:22:42,367 White walls, white sheets, white bed. 403 00:22:42,367 --> 00:22:44,266 Pretty much, like, white everything. 404 00:22:44,266 --> 00:22:46,467 And then, the only thing that I remember 405 00:22:46,467 --> 00:22:48,567 that wasn't white, was the straps. 406 00:22:48,567 --> 00:22:50,667 The straps were brown. 407 00:22:50,667 --> 00:22:52,867 And they were just dangling off he side of the bed. 408 00:22:52,867 --> 00:22:54,367 And I'm like, "What are those?" 409 00:22:54,367 --> 00:22:56,934 And the nurse was, like, "That's only if you try to hurt yourself." 410 00:22:57,867 --> 00:22:59,967 My seven-year-old self was scared. 411 00:23:00,100 --> 00:23:01,033 I was scared. 412 00:23:01,367 --> 00:23:03,967 Being in that room was 413 00:23:04,767 --> 00:23:05,767 creepy. 414 00:23:05,767 --> 00:23:07,767 'Cause they locked me in there. 415 00:23:07,767 --> 00:23:09,066 [gate locking] 416 00:23:09,133 --> 00:23:10,767 I couldn't leave. Nothing. 417 00:23:10,834 --> 00:23:13,166 I remember, like, I got ready for bed 418 00:23:13,233 --> 00:23:15,634 and it was like, once I lay down, the lights just cut off. 419 00:23:17,300 --> 00:23:19,100 And I'm just laying there in the dark, 420 00:23:19,100 --> 00:23:20,533 terrified. 421 00:23:22,667 --> 00:23:26,867 [Beth] Conveniently, a judge decided on an emergency petition, 422 00:23:26,867 --> 00:23:29,367 to have Natalia re-aged as an adult 423 00:23:29,367 --> 00:23:33,266 while she was in Larue Carter Psychiatric Hospital. 424 00:23:33,333 --> 00:23:36,266 In other words, their plan is coming together, 425 00:23:36,333 --> 00:23:38,934 perhaps, exactly the way they hoped. 426 00:23:40,900 --> 00:23:43,934 I didn't know that Michael and Kristine were changing my age. 427 00:23:44,867 --> 00:23:47,667 Not once did they mention anything to me. 428 00:23:47,667 --> 00:23:50,667 Because I remember I was in the kids' section at Larue Carter, 429 00:23:51,166 --> 00:23:52,567 in the beginning, 430 00:23:52,567 --> 00:23:56,233 but then I got told that I had to get switched to the adult section. 431 00:24:19,367 --> 00:24:21,667 The only medical professionals 432 00:24:21,667 --> 00:24:24,367 who believed that Natalia was an adult, 433 00:24:24,433 --> 00:24:27,100 was the family doctor, McLaren 434 00:24:27,100 --> 00:24:31,667 and a social worker, therapist, Susan Whitten. 435 00:24:31,667 --> 00:24:34,333 And they were the basis for... 436 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,467 the application to re-age Natalia. 437 00:24:37,467 --> 00:24:41,266 Susan Whitten is a licensed clinical social worker. 438 00:24:41,266 --> 00:24:42,367 Not a doctor. 439 00:24:42,367 --> 00:24:45,667 Ms. Whitten wrote a couple of letters 440 00:24:45,734 --> 00:24:49,266 that alleged that Natalia had schizophrenia 441 00:24:49,266 --> 00:24:51,467 And Dr. McLaren is my primary care physician. 442 00:24:51,467 --> 00:24:54,033 He's been my primary care physician since... 443 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:56,367 2002, give or take. 444 00:24:56,367 --> 00:24:58,166 And he'd been for the entire family. 445 00:24:58,166 --> 00:25:00,266 We were probably in that office 446 00:25:00,767 --> 00:25:02,433 rather regularly. 447 00:25:13,166 --> 00:25:14,967 [man] To be honest with you, Dr. McLaren, 448 00:25:14,967 --> 00:25:17,166 if the parents kept bringing Natalia in, 449 00:25:17,166 --> 00:25:19,667 and kept telling you that she's older than what she is... 450 00:25:19,734 --> 00:25:21,367 How many times could they bring her in, 451 00:25:21,433 --> 00:25:22,867 before you start believing it? 452 00:25:22,934 --> 00:25:24,667 And having a rapport with the family anyway, 453 00:25:24,667 --> 00:25:27,166 and feeling sympathetic to their cause, 454 00:25:27,166 --> 00:25:29,767 and then so, people would start believing 455 00:25:29,834 --> 00:25:31,333 that she's older than what she is. 456 00:25:37,367 --> 00:25:39,667 [Jackie] The letters Dr. McLaren wrote, 457 00:25:39,667 --> 00:25:42,166 seemed to suggest that his view of Natalia 458 00:25:42,166 --> 00:25:43,266 was not positive, 459 00:25:43,266 --> 00:25:46,133 and that he was very sympathetic to the Barnetts. 460 00:25:47,100 --> 00:25:50,867 The letter alleged that Natalia was a con artist 461 00:25:50,867 --> 00:25:53,467 and that the Barnetts were victims. 462 00:25:53,467 --> 00:25:55,867 In our experience, none of the-- 463 00:25:55,867 --> 00:25:59,266 the prosecutors had ever heard a doctor make such claims. 464 00:25:59,266 --> 00:26:01,467 There has been doctors that have literally said 465 00:26:01,467 --> 00:26:04,767 I was between seven years old and 12. 466 00:26:04,767 --> 00:26:07,066 But then there's one doctor that writes a letter 467 00:26:07,133 --> 00:26:09,433 and that's the only thing that they use in court? 468 00:26:09,767 --> 00:26:10,667 To change my age? 469 00:26:10,667 --> 00:26:13,533 And it's just, "Oh, yeah, that's accurate. 470 00:26:13,967 --> 00:26:15,166 That's facts." 471 00:26:15,233 --> 00:26:17,767 That doctor was a family friend. 472 00:26:17,767 --> 00:26:20,000 Literally, like, they've known him for years. 473 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,000 Have you not seen the other scans? 474 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,667 Have you not seen the other letters from the doctors? 475 00:26:24,667 --> 00:26:26,834 They're all saying that I'm a kid! 476 00:26:28,166 --> 00:26:30,066 But you're gonna use that one letter. 477 00:26:30,066 --> 00:26:32,233 Like, "Oh, yeah, that's everything we need." 478 00:26:33,300 --> 00:26:35,533 Change the birthday to 1989. 479 00:26:37,100 --> 00:26:40,567 We are talking about making her 22 from eight. 480 00:26:40,567 --> 00:26:43,266 So that with the stroke of his pen, overnight, 481 00:26:43,266 --> 00:26:46,166 she is eligible to drink, drive and vote. 482 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:47,767 Okay? 483 00:26:47,767 --> 00:26:51,367 Like, that is highly unusual. 484 00:26:51,433 --> 00:26:55,467 But we know Kristine and Michael know that Dr. Rig said 485 00:26:55,467 --> 00:26:58,000 that she was between nine and 11, 486 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,667 within weeks of getting custody of her. 487 00:27:00,667 --> 00:27:05,767 We know, within a year, the dentist said she was between eight and nine. 488 00:27:05,767 --> 00:27:10,467 The fact that they did not let the judge know any of this, 489 00:27:10,467 --> 00:27:12,667 makes me wonder if they were deceiving the court. 490 00:27:12,667 --> 00:27:14,567 Were they perpetrating a fraud on the court 491 00:27:14,567 --> 00:27:18,667 by not giving the court all the information they had about her age? 492 00:27:18,734 --> 00:27:23,000 The child protection team found out about the re-aging after it had occurred. 493 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:27,567 There were letters sent to, both, Department of Children Services 494 00:27:27,634 --> 00:27:30,567 and to Dr. McLaren, saying "Hey, this isn't right. 495 00:27:30,634 --> 00:27:33,767 "This is not true. She's not 22." 496 00:27:33,834 --> 00:27:35,867 According to the records from the hospital, 497 00:27:35,934 --> 00:27:38,567 the Barnetts showed up and said, "Here's this court order. 498 00:27:38,634 --> 00:27:41,166 "that changes her age from eight to 22." 499 00:27:41,233 --> 00:27:43,367 No notice was ever provided to Natalia. 500 00:27:43,433 --> 00:27:47,467 No hearing at which Natalia was present. No hearing, period. 501 00:27:47,533 --> 00:27:51,867 So it was clear that she really didn't have any representation. 502 00:27:53,066 --> 00:27:56,000 [Beth] At this point, the Barnetts appeared to have won. 503 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,000 Natalia has been successfully re-aged. 504 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,367 And Michael and Kristine are exchanging text messages 505 00:28:02,367 --> 00:28:04,367 saying they need to celebrate the fact 506 00:28:04,367 --> 00:28:06,233 they'd gotten rid of Natalia. 507 00:28:13,100 --> 00:28:16,066 The Barnetts are acting like they're home free. 508 00:28:16,133 --> 00:28:19,567 But then, Larue Psychiatric Center contacts them. 509 00:28:19,567 --> 00:28:22,266 Saying there's nothing wrong with Natalia. 510 00:28:22,266 --> 00:28:25,367 And they don't even see the need for medication or therapy, 511 00:28:25,367 --> 00:28:28,166 since they didn't consider her mentally unstable. 512 00:28:28,166 --> 00:28:31,567 So, even though part of the Barnett plan to get her committed failed, 513 00:28:31,634 --> 00:28:34,433 they did succeed in getting her re-aged. 514 00:28:35,266 --> 00:28:37,367 [Natalia] And I left. 515 00:28:37,433 --> 00:28:42,467 But the thing was, Kristine and Michael did not pick me up from the hospital. 516 00:28:42,533 --> 00:28:44,233 They sent me to a halfway house. 517 00:28:49,367 --> 00:28:52,367 And, like, I didn't know what I was doing there. 518 00:28:52,367 --> 00:28:53,767 Like, I didn't know what to do there. 519 00:28:53,767 --> 00:28:56,266 There was a bunch of people that I didn't know. 520 00:28:56,266 --> 00:28:59,467 I was exposed to smoking, drinking, cussing, 521 00:28:59,467 --> 00:29:00,967 pretty much the whole nine. 522 00:29:01,033 --> 00:29:03,266 Like, I didn't understand anything that was going on. 523 00:29:03,266 --> 00:29:04,967 Like, even just thinking about it, 524 00:29:04,967 --> 00:29:07,867 like, I can remember how I felt. 525 00:29:08,667 --> 00:29:09,934 I was scared. 526 00:29:10,900 --> 00:29:12,667 [Michael] Kristine says to me, 527 00:29:12,667 --> 00:29:16,266 "Natalia says there's people doing drugs there. 528 00:29:16,266 --> 00:29:19,166 And there's people with needles there, doing things." 529 00:29:19,967 --> 00:29:23,634 And Kristine says, "We gotta go get her." 530 00:29:24,100 --> 00:29:26,467 [sighs] 531 00:29:26,467 --> 00:29:30,467 "Because if something happens to her, I'm famous. 532 00:29:30,467 --> 00:29:35,166 And if they find the daughter of the Kristine Barnett, 533 00:29:35,166 --> 00:29:37,033 dead of a drug overdose... 534 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:40,634 I'm famous." 535 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,367 She wasn't concerned about her health. 536 00:29:44,433 --> 00:29:46,100 She wasn't concerned about her well-being. 537 00:29:46,100 --> 00:29:49,000 She was [bleep] concerned that somebody would find her dead 538 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:54,266 and, "Ooh!" The saint had a daughter that dies of an overdose. 539 00:29:54,266 --> 00:29:57,333 God bless her for really looking out for her, right? 540 00:29:59,467 --> 00:30:01,467 So they took me back to the house. 541 00:30:01,467 --> 00:30:03,767 And then, a couple of days later, 542 00:30:03,767 --> 00:30:06,166 I find out I'm going to look at an apartment. 543 00:30:08,767 --> 00:30:10,233 So... 544 00:30:13,567 --> 00:30:17,367 They just dropped me off at an apartment, and then just left. 545 00:30:17,367 --> 00:30:20,667 Like, they didn't explain that I was getting an apartment, 546 00:30:20,667 --> 00:30:22,166 or anything like that. 547 00:30:22,166 --> 00:30:24,767 I'm over here, eight years old, and I'm like... 548 00:30:24,767 --> 00:30:26,367 "What do I do?" 549 00:30:27,300 --> 00:30:30,333 They didn't teach me how to do anything. 550 00:30:32,867 --> 00:30:33,967 And... 551 00:30:36,967 --> 00:30:38,233 I was just like... 552 00:30:39,700 --> 00:30:41,133 I'm lost. 553 00:30:42,467 --> 00:30:44,467 Like, I-- I don't know where I am. 554 00:30:44,467 --> 00:30:46,834 This place that I have never been to before. 555 00:30:47,767 --> 00:30:50,934 And they just expect me to just... Live? 556 00:30:52,166 --> 00:30:53,634 By myself? 557 00:30:54,500 --> 00:30:56,233 Even though they did what they did. 558 00:30:57,367 --> 00:31:00,367 I didn't know what else to do but wanna be with my parents. 559 00:31:01,500 --> 00:31:04,266 Like, I was just a regular kid... 560 00:31:05,100 --> 00:31:07,066 that just wanted to be with her family. 561 00:31:07,133 --> 00:31:08,867 And they just... 562 00:31:08,867 --> 00:31:13,233 They did all of this just to change my age and get me out of their house. 563 00:31:13,567 --> 00:31:15,867 [music playing] 564 00:31:15,867 --> 00:31:20,767 Lot of people did not like me in that apartment complex. 565 00:31:20,767 --> 00:31:22,767 I didn't understand why though. 566 00:31:22,834 --> 00:31:25,266 I didn't know that. 567 00:31:25,266 --> 00:31:28,767 People, seeing me, like, going in their houses 568 00:31:28,834 --> 00:31:31,667 and getting food and everything like that. 569 00:31:31,734 --> 00:31:35,667 You know, that's not something that a normal 22-year-old would do. 570 00:31:35,667 --> 00:31:37,533 Or, like, they're not supposed to anyways. 571 00:31:37,867 --> 00:31:39,367 You know... 572 00:31:40,166 --> 00:31:42,467 But that was thing. I wasn't 22. 573 00:31:42,467 --> 00:31:45,000 I was eight years old. 574 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,767 I didn't know that I couldn't just go to people's houses. 575 00:31:47,767 --> 00:31:50,066 I didn't know there were boundaries. 576 00:31:52,467 --> 00:31:56,467 Um, that's all put on. That's not her-- the way she was, at all. 577 00:31:56,467 --> 00:31:57,967 She knew what she was doing. 578 00:31:58,033 --> 00:32:01,767 And she was 22. They proved that she was 22. 579 00:32:01,767 --> 00:32:03,467 And she wasn't a little girl. 580 00:32:03,467 --> 00:32:06,266 She was very bad. 581 00:32:10,367 --> 00:32:14,467 I was Sue McCallum and Natalia and I were neighbors. 582 00:32:14,467 --> 00:32:17,567 I misplaced her for a little girl, at first. 583 00:32:17,634 --> 00:32:20,166 But her actions and the way she talked 584 00:32:20,166 --> 00:32:22,166 and the way she acted around people, 585 00:32:22,233 --> 00:32:25,367 I can tell that she wasn't a little girl. 586 00:32:25,367 --> 00:32:27,266 I asked her where her mother was at. 587 00:32:27,333 --> 00:32:30,667 She says, "I'm 22. I don't need my mother." 588 00:32:30,667 --> 00:32:34,667 My thoughts is Natalia is just... 589 00:32:34,667 --> 00:32:36,767 trying to get herself to look good, 590 00:32:36,767 --> 00:32:39,367 when Natalia has done a lot of bad things. 591 00:32:41,300 --> 00:32:43,567 A lot of people, at the apartment, 592 00:32:43,634 --> 00:32:46,467 reported inappropriate things she did. 593 00:32:46,467 --> 00:32:49,767 And they had to get so much on her before they could... 594 00:32:49,767 --> 00:32:52,867 you know, like, evict her from there. 595 00:32:52,867 --> 00:32:57,467 Like when she was inappropriate with a little boy. 596 00:32:59,166 --> 00:33:02,834 That whole story is misunderstood. 597 00:33:04,667 --> 00:33:07,367 I remember, like, we were just, like, rolling around in the grass, 598 00:33:07,367 --> 00:33:08,967 that was in front of that thing. 599 00:33:09,033 --> 00:33:10,567 and then, like, we was having a tickle fight. 600 00:33:10,567 --> 00:33:12,667 And that's when the dad came out and was like, 601 00:33:12,734 --> 00:33:14,166 "What are you doing?" 602 00:33:15,567 --> 00:33:17,634 To me, a tickle fight is just 603 00:33:18,367 --> 00:33:21,767 tickling each other and playing around. 604 00:33:21,767 --> 00:33:24,767 Natalia was doing more than tickling the little boy. 605 00:33:24,767 --> 00:33:28,266 She was getting too familiar in private areas. 606 00:33:30,100 --> 00:33:33,233 They said I tried to, like, sexually touch him. 607 00:33:34,266 --> 00:33:36,967 And that was not the case at all. 608 00:33:37,033 --> 00:33:38,567 I just started getting yelled at. 609 00:33:39,066 --> 00:33:40,467 I didn't know why, 610 00:33:41,967 --> 00:33:44,467 And that's why I ran. 611 00:33:44,467 --> 00:33:47,834 I didn't. I was scared. I didn't know why everybody was yelling at me. 612 00:33:48,467 --> 00:33:50,066 I thought I was just being a kid. 613 00:33:51,767 --> 00:33:54,066 [Sue] This isn't the only incident. 614 00:33:54,066 --> 00:33:58,567 There was one gentleman that was in the laundry room, 615 00:33:58,567 --> 00:34:02,166 and he told me that she was a very strange person. 616 00:34:02,233 --> 00:34:05,967 And then there was other, older gentlemen that lived out there, 617 00:34:05,967 --> 00:34:08,266 in their apartments, by their self. 618 00:34:08,266 --> 00:34:10,767 And they would let Natalia come in 619 00:34:10,767 --> 00:34:13,533 and she'd stay for hours and hours. 620 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,166 [breathes deeply] 621 00:34:16,233 --> 00:34:20,133 There was a day where I was in the apartment in Westfield. 622 00:34:22,300 --> 00:34:25,166 I was just walking around. I was bored. 623 00:34:25,233 --> 00:34:26,567 I didn't know "Stranger Danger" 624 00:34:26,634 --> 00:34:27,567 and not to knock on people's doors, 625 00:34:27,567 --> 00:34:29,166 and I was knocking on people's doors. 626 00:34:30,867 --> 00:34:33,767 I was just, like, going around, like, seeing if anybody would talk to me. 627 00:34:34,367 --> 00:34:37,266 There was a guy, he was older. 628 00:34:37,266 --> 00:34:39,433 He was a-- kind of a weird guy. 629 00:34:40,567 --> 00:34:41,934 He invited me in. 630 00:34:42,667 --> 00:34:43,934 And... 631 00:34:44,867 --> 00:34:46,233 He... 632 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:48,867 He wasn't dressed. 633 00:34:51,867 --> 00:34:54,867 And then, I asked what he was watching, 634 00:34:54,867 --> 00:34:57,166 and it was... 635 00:34:57,166 --> 00:35:00,166 A video. It was a very sexual video. 636 00:35:00,166 --> 00:35:02,066 But I didn't know what it was, exactly. 637 00:35:02,066 --> 00:35:05,367 He played it and he was, like, "You can watch it." 638 00:35:05,367 --> 00:35:08,467 And I just remember, like, "Can we watch something else?" 639 00:35:08,467 --> 00:35:10,333 And he's like, "Just watch it. It's okay." 640 00:35:11,166 --> 00:35:12,567 I was sitting on the couch. 641 00:35:12,634 --> 00:35:15,066 And he moved to the other end of the couch. 642 00:35:15,133 --> 00:35:17,734 At that point, I was just, like, "I'm gonna go." 643 00:35:18,367 --> 00:35:20,133 Thankfully, he let me go. 644 00:35:21,500 --> 00:35:23,467 But it was just the fact, like, 645 00:35:23,533 --> 00:35:25,166 I'd seen enough... 646 00:35:25,867 --> 00:35:28,166 that it was just very uncomfortable. 647 00:35:28,166 --> 00:35:29,667 Like, I'm just, like, very weirded out. 648 00:35:29,667 --> 00:35:31,066 Like, I'm very uncomfortable right now. 649 00:35:31,066 --> 00:35:33,533 Like I'm not even comfortable in my own seat. Like, It's just... 650 00:35:35,767 --> 00:35:37,066 [sighs] 651 00:35:37,767 --> 00:35:38,934 That man... 652 00:35:39,867 --> 00:35:42,567 He was a flirty old man. 653 00:35:43,567 --> 00:35:47,467 Because some other lady was going to get her mail, 654 00:35:47,467 --> 00:35:48,467 and walked by 655 00:35:48,467 --> 00:35:51,767 and he was standing there in the nude. 656 00:35:51,767 --> 00:35:54,266 And she reported him to the office. 657 00:35:54,266 --> 00:35:58,166 But Natalia never complained about any of these things 658 00:35:58,166 --> 00:36:00,467 when she was living out at the apartment. 659 00:36:00,467 --> 00:36:02,634 She was always talking about... 660 00:36:04,100 --> 00:36:06,166 being with guys and sex 661 00:36:06,767 --> 00:36:08,333 and things and so... 662 00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:11,634 I don't think that she... 663 00:36:13,100 --> 00:36:15,567 really cared that much that he was doing that. 664 00:36:19,667 --> 00:36:21,433 [whispers] So hard. 665 00:36:23,567 --> 00:36:26,166 So hard realizing that nobody actually cared. 666 00:36:29,266 --> 00:36:32,066 Like, what if the guy raped me, or something like that? 667 00:36:32,133 --> 00:36:35,166 All because Michael and Kristine, pretty much, left me. 668 00:36:36,266 --> 00:36:38,634 [dramatic music playing] 669 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:47,433 Need a hug? 670 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:52,333 It's all right. 671 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:55,634 [Antwon] Hmm. 672 00:37:00,367 --> 00:37:03,567 [Antwon] There was a lot of unfortunate things that happened to you. 673 00:37:03,567 --> 00:37:05,867 And it's really a shame 674 00:37:05,867 --> 00:37:08,834 that anybody is capable of doing that to a child. 675 00:37:10,500 --> 00:37:11,834 Yeah. 676 00:37:14,767 --> 00:37:16,767 The Barnetts are free of Natalia. 677 00:37:16,834 --> 00:37:19,467 They are occasionally checking in on her. 678 00:37:19,467 --> 00:37:21,834 But basically, they're moving on with their lives. 679 00:37:22,667 --> 00:37:24,467 That is, until they received notice, 680 00:37:24,467 --> 00:37:27,066 just a couple months later, from DCS, 681 00:37:27,133 --> 00:37:30,066 that Natalia is actually a dependent, 682 00:37:30,900 --> 00:37:32,867 as a disable individual. 683 00:37:32,867 --> 00:37:35,867 I would have loved to have seen Kristine's face 684 00:37:35,867 --> 00:37:38,767 when she got that notice. Can you imagine? 685 00:37:38,767 --> 00:37:41,767 The Barnetts even had their lawyer fire off a letter 686 00:37:41,767 --> 00:37:44,367 to the Department of Children Services saying, 687 00:37:44,367 --> 00:37:47,767 "Look, she's an adult. You don't have any jurisdiction over her." 688 00:37:47,834 --> 00:37:49,867 But the Barnetts, again, are notified 689 00:37:49,934 --> 00:37:53,467 that it doesn't matter what Natalia's age is. 690 00:37:53,467 --> 00:37:56,767 She's a dependent because of her disability. 691 00:37:56,767 --> 00:38:01,767 That means the Barnetts are on the hook, maybe forever. 692 00:38:01,834 --> 00:38:04,867 Natalia had Diastrophic Dysplasia, 693 00:38:04,934 --> 00:38:08,467 which was accompanied by other medical conditions. 694 00:38:08,533 --> 00:38:11,667 And limited... particularly her mobility. 695 00:38:11,667 --> 00:38:15,567 But also her ability to move her arms, 696 00:38:15,634 --> 00:38:17,467 and to grasp things. 697 00:38:18,367 --> 00:38:22,000 And because of those conditions, 698 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:23,767 she was a dependent. 699 00:38:23,767 --> 00:38:25,967 It's not everybody who is disabled 700 00:38:25,967 --> 00:38:28,266 is necessarily dependent on their parents forever. 701 00:38:28,667 --> 00:38:30,767 But in this case, 702 00:38:30,767 --> 00:38:33,333 the situation that Natalia was left in, 703 00:38:33,667 --> 00:38:35,233 wasn't okay for her. 704 00:38:35,667 --> 00:38:36,600 At any age. 705 00:38:39,100 --> 00:38:42,567 Every step of the way, Kristine's plan failed. 706 00:38:42,567 --> 00:38:44,667 It's dawning on her now, 707 00:38:44,734 --> 00:38:47,133 they may never get rid of Natalia. 708 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:53,433 Yes. 709 00:38:56,500 --> 00:38:57,667 Yes, in person. 710 00:39:01,900 --> 00:39:03,867 [Natalia] One day, I remember, 711 00:39:03,867 --> 00:39:06,867 I was living in the first apartment. 712 00:39:06,867 --> 00:39:08,667 I was taking medicine. 713 00:39:08,667 --> 00:39:11,367 I don't remember what it was, it was like three different pills. 714 00:39:11,367 --> 00:39:16,066 For the mental stuff that Kristine claimed I had. 715 00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,367 And um... 716 00:39:18,367 --> 00:39:20,934 I remember waking up, taking it... 717 00:39:22,467 --> 00:39:24,066 And then I fell back to sleep 718 00:39:24,133 --> 00:39:26,667 because the medicine made me sleepy. 719 00:39:26,667 --> 00:39:29,533 And I think it was like, literally, only an hour later, 720 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:31,367 Kristine came. 721 00:39:31,367 --> 00:39:35,367 And she was knocking on the door, like, pounding on the door. 722 00:39:35,367 --> 00:39:38,066 And I opened the door and she literally was like, 723 00:39:38,066 --> 00:39:39,734 "Why are you still sleeping?" 724 00:39:40,467 --> 00:39:43,166 Like, she was mad that I was asleep. 725 00:39:43,233 --> 00:39:44,934 And I told her I was tired. 726 00:39:45,700 --> 00:39:50,066 Kristine was very on edge that day. 727 00:39:50,066 --> 00:39:52,266 And then, she was like, "Did you take your medicine?" 728 00:39:53,867 --> 00:39:55,433 And I was like, "Yes, I did." 729 00:39:56,367 --> 00:39:58,266 And she's like, "I don't believe you." 730 00:40:01,467 --> 00:40:03,266 So she, literally, got my medicine, 731 00:40:05,467 --> 00:40:06,934 gave it to me, 732 00:40:07,500 --> 00:40:08,934 gave me a water bottle, 733 00:40:09,567 --> 00:40:11,066 and she's like, "Take it." 734 00:40:13,567 --> 00:40:16,533 And as I was taking it, she turned. 735 00:40:18,266 --> 00:40:21,033 But I just remember she didn't loo at me but I did take it. 736 00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:26,266 Ten she turned back around and then she was like, "Did you take your medicine?" 737 00:40:26,266 --> 00:40:28,867 And I was, like, "Yes." And she's like, "I don't believe you. 738 00:40:28,867 --> 00:40:30,667 Where is it?" 739 00:40:30,667 --> 00:40:33,934 And then she made me take it again and she watched that time. 740 00:40:37,100 --> 00:40:39,967 And then she left. 741 00:40:40,033 --> 00:40:42,634 And then I remember getting in the bathroom. 742 00:40:45,367 --> 00:40:48,166 And then, coming out, I literally fell. 743 00:40:50,900 --> 00:40:52,634 I was so dizzy. 744 00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:00,166 I couldn't even walk straight. I couldn't even see straight. 745 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:05,767 I felt so sick. I was dizzy. 746 00:41:05,767 --> 00:41:08,166 Literally, like, my eyes were going cross. 747 00:41:08,233 --> 00:41:09,767 It was so blurry. 748 00:41:11,100 --> 00:41:13,433 And then I fell asleep. Like I blacked out... 749 00:41:16,266 --> 00:41:19,634 For, like, hours until 2:00 in the morning. 750 00:41:23,467 --> 00:41:25,767 Looking back on it... 751 00:41:25,834 --> 00:41:30,266 Like, it felt like she really did try to overdose me. 752 00:41:30,266 --> 00:41:31,834 [dramatic music playing] 753 00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,066 I really could have died that day. 754 00:41:38,567 --> 00:41:41,834 I was seven years old, taking an adult drug. 755 00:41:43,300 --> 00:41:44,667 And... 756 00:41:45,867 --> 00:41:47,967 taking it three times that day... 757 00:41:48,033 --> 00:41:50,867 It was, like, three different pills. each time. 758 00:41:52,166 --> 00:41:53,467 And... 759 00:41:54,467 --> 00:41:56,333 that's scary. 760 00:41:57,500 --> 00:42:00,867 Like, the fact that Kristine tried to say, 761 00:42:00,934 --> 00:42:03,166 "She tried to murder my family." 762 00:42:03,166 --> 00:42:07,166 But then she tried to, pretty much, murder me... 763 00:42:09,467 --> 00:42:11,867 And nobody would have known. 764 00:42:11,867 --> 00:42:13,800 Nobody would have cared.