18.01.2024 • 54 Min.

From the very start of her life, Natalia Grace has been passed around like a human football and exploited. From the moment of her birth in Ukraine when doctors encouraged her mother Anna Volodymyrivna Gava to give her baby up due to her diagnosis of dwarfism, Natalia has been denied a stable, loving home and instead been placed with people who had no business caring for her and had no capacity for loving her. Today we examine Natalia’s complex and convoluted case, made only more confusing by the docu-series “The Curious Case of Natalia Grace”. We examine the many narrators in this story including Michael Barnett who along with his wife Kristine adopted Natalia, appeared to abuse her both physically and mentally, coercively controlled her and then bizarrely sought to prove Natalia was not a child, but an adult woman pretending to be a child, legally "re-aging" her. Jim and Laura analyze the evidence and try to discern who is telling the truth and what actually happened. Can there be any excuse for traumatizing and abandoning a dependent person with a severe disability (be they a child or an adult) to fend for themselves with no means of care? Join us for this discussion. #realcrimeprofile #TrueCrime #podcast #ExpertAnalysis #FBI #NewScotlandYard #CriminalBehavior #BehaviorAnalysis #childabuse #coercivecontrol Follow us and continue the conversation On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/realcrimeprofile/?hl=en On Twitter https://twitter.com/realcrimeprofil On Facebook https://www.facebook.com/realcrimeprofile/ >>>>>>>>> SUPPORT OUR OTHER SHOWS <<<<<<<<<<<<<< CRIME ANALYST PODCAST - You’re interested in real crime? Tick You’re interested in good storytelling? Tick You want content that’s respectful to the victims and honours them Tick And you want more insight and in-depth analysis about “the who” “the what” “the where” “the when” “the how” and “the why”? Tick And you want to know how you can prevent it? Tick Congratulations! You’ve found your next podcast! Ride shotgun with me, Laura Richards world renowned and award-winning Criminal Behavioural Analyst, former New Scotland Yard every week as we profile behaviour and identify the red flags to prevent murders in slow motion. Come join me in the intelligence cell as we deconstruct and analyse real cases. www.crime-analyst.com Crime Analyst YouTube Channel You can subscribe to Crime Analyst YouTube here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksfRSwfwFqUCjcxKYju6_Q KILLER CASTING PODCAST - Love watching weird and wonderful, tense and twisty tv and film? So do we! Join Lisa and Dean as they deconstruct the shows and movies they love, obsess with them over wardrobe, wallpaper as well as the acting, directing and writing. We interview actors, show runners and all kinds of industry insiders. We are in the homestretch covering FX/Hulu's Season 5 of FARGO! https://www.killercastingpod.com/podcast BEST CASE WORST CASE Be sure and check out Jim’s podcast Best Case/Worst Case that he does along with former Federal Prosecutor Francey Hakes. Join them as they go behind police lines with unparalleled access to law enforcement officers, looking back at their most memorable cases – for better or for worse. Subscribe now! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/best-case-worst-case/id1240002929 Dalai Lama - Apology Denied See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.