Why did the Barnetts suspect that Natalia Grace wasn’t actually 6 years {old}?
The day after they adopted Natalia, Michael says within the sequence, Kristine went to provide the lady a shower and screamed when she noticed that Natalia had pubic hair. Michael says he searched on-line whether or not that was potential, and browse that pubic hair may begin to seem on a woman as younger as 8. However, he continues, he and his spouse figured that this was a toddler who clearly wanted love and compassion and it did not matter if she was a bit older than they had been advised.
(Natalia stated on Dr. Phil in 2019 that she was 8 years {old}, “possibly virtually 9,” when the Barnetts adopted her.)
Just a few months later, Natalia advised them that she’d been having intervals and hiding the proof, Michael says. A household good friend heard in an audio recording says Kristine had discovered stained socks that Natalia had used as sanitary pads after which thrown out the window. “She stated, ‘This is not regular, what have I gotten myself into?'” the good friend recollects. “And so I stated, ‘You want to begin discovering out how {old} she is.'”
Kimberly Franklin, Michael’s youthful sister, recollects within the sequence listening to that the Barnetts had discovered “interval underwear” hidden in Natalia’s room.
Additionally inside the first few months of adopting Natalia, the Barnetts organized for a play date with Elva Reyes‘ daughter, Therese, who had the identical type of uncommon dwarfism and was additionally 6 years {old}.
As Elva and Therese, now 14, recall on the present, it was fairly obvious to them—pointing to footage of the women taken in 2010— that Therese and Natalia had been not the identical age.