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Truth is as strange as fiction and liers tell bare-faced lies on TV. In short, in 2010 a US couple adopted a 7 year-old girl from Ukraine with dwarfism, claimed she was an adult who wanted to harm them, legally changed her age and abandoned her to fend for herself in a flat. I remember seeing the adoptive father interviewed (probably the interview below) and assumed he was telling the truth, though I thought it odd that a grown woman would want to be infantilised. Apparently it was all a lie, inspired by a recent horror film about a demon adopted Russian child.
It’s the true-crime drama which gripped America, and with ‘Good American Family’ finally arriving in the UK today, criminologist David Wilson is here to dissect the shocking real-life case. In 2010, the Barnett family adopted Natalia Grace, a 7-year-old with dwarfism from Ukraine, but they soon began to suspect she was actually an adult posing as a child to cause them harm.
My post must have been unclear. She wasn't an adult when she was adopted. The adoptive parents lied about her menstruating, etc. She was a child. She apparently later underwent a DNA test that proved she'd been around 7 when she was adopted.
Jo wrote: My post must have been unclear. She wasn't an adult when she was adopted. The adoptive parents lied about her menstruating, etc. She was a child. She apparently later underwent a DNA test that proved she'd been around 7 when she was adopted.
Sorry Jo, I did misread your thread. Like many I did take the bait on this. We know America is a bit bonkers, nothing surprises me in America, if a mad man went full Freddy Krueger, it would just be another day for many there.
However, I can imagine the couple still getting lawyers involved to sue Hulu or whatever the streaming platform is or production company.
No problem, GM, it's easily done. I believed the adoptive father too when seeing his interview originally, but thought it odd that an adult woman would want to live like a child. Makes me wonder how many other people you see interviewed on TV about their "real life stories" are telling bare-faced lies. Another two I can think of: Jimmy Savile's great-niece, also interviewed on This Morning (I believed her too initially), and a woman who waived her anonymity and told Australian TV about how Rolf Harris supposedly abused her (telling a story that had multiple points in common with Jimmy Savile's great-niece's story, which had been published straight to YouTube seven months previously), then apparently reclaimed her anonymity.
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