Six-year-old orphan or ‘con artist’ adult? Revisiting the strange story of Natalia Grace
by Ramon Antonio Vargas from US news | The Guardian on (#6C1V3)
Docuseries breaks new ground on mystery of true age of Ukrainian girl adopted and then abandoned by Indiana couple
It's been years since a central Indiana couple adopted a girl from Ukraine, became convinced that she was an adult impersonating a child, and abandoned her, setting off an international media frenzy and a legal showdown with authorities who accused them of parental neglect.
But even after the recent release of a slickly produced docuseries broke new ground on the saga, the mystery surrounding Natalia Grace's virtually unprecedented adoption case seems to remain unsolved: exactly how old was she when Michael and Kristine Barnett left her? And was it unreasonable that they did so?
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