DNA Test Confirms Orphan Natalia Grace’s Real Age

DNA test results confirm the true age of Natalia Grace, who's been at the center of a bizarre controversy. In 2010, she was adopted by a family who was told she was a 7-year-old Ukrainian orphan. However, her adoptive parents claimed they discovered she was really an adult with dwarfism and that she was just posing as a child. During a docuseries, Grace took a DNA test that proved she was a child when she was adopted.

[suzz]

I went to school with a girl who got her period at age 8, so the parents claiming she was an adult just cuz she had her period is ludicrous.

[axcelzedd]

Dr Phil need to apologize to her cause he ignited the suspicions about real age

[chenisejenkins]

Their actions were shady af. Even if she was 22, y would they leave and go to another country when they could have just called cps or other authorities to have her removed from the home?

[brettmasonmedia]

Imagine being legally ruled 22 at age 9. You could be forced to fend for yourself as an adult. Can you even imagine?

[draculinalilith]

they should be re-charged. The case should be re-opened. Because they did exactly that, neglect a dependent.

[ThashaPN]

So they ruled her legally 22 when I’m sure this type of DNA test existed 10 years ago. Somebody needs to go to jail for this!

[imperialpresence]

the adoptive parents need to be put in prison for what they did to that little girl

[a.walters]

For those who know the story, that means that she was abandoned in an apartment when she was a preteen around 11-12 to live alone as an “adult”. A regular kid that age would have trouble living alone in an apartment, but especially one with special needs and physical and mental disabilities. The apartment was also in a high crime area, and she was a 3 ft child wandering the streets looking for food.

[modaz]

How that judge decided she was over 20 when she was just a child, is beyond me!! And how her “parents” were found not guilty is equally as disgusting

[minjaeseoul]

This case always angered me, even back when it first came out. i was a year older than her. I got my period early, around 9 or 10, and I was freaking out. I cant imagine my mom telling me that I would be an adult and leave me alone just because I had a monthly period. I think this revolved more around her disability which is even more sick and twisted. They wanted an out and found it, they should be barred from EVER adopting another child and Dr. Phil needs to apologize for even getting the ball rolling over this. He's just as responisble for this mess.

[xtralbs]

She must be tired from all this. But I hope she is able to sue her former adoptive parents!

[divinhaquem]

Turning the world against a 9yo child with disabilities after taking her out of her country and mother language is unimaginable. Layers of lack of empathy - which they turned and blamed her of lacking, a "sociopath". Monsters!

[thomaskloos]

These adoptive parents should be barred from adoption.

[jocelyna.]

I’m sorry so many failed you Natalia 💛 I pray your new family is everything you needed in the old family. It’s crazy how she really clearly looks and sounds 22 now and how she really looked and sounded like a child in the other videos

[snowmiaow]

This is the first i heard of a dna test for age.

[jenniferthompson]

she should sue the judge and the parents for defamation

[r.e.]

Seeing her photos side by side at 0:59, you can tell she's grown into her adult features. I for one never believed her original adoptive parents, but when you actually take the time to look into this case and see how deranged the Barnett's were and continue to be, it becomes clear.

[LaLagunz]

My daughter started her cycle at 9, one month before she turned 10. She was so scared. I started at 12 and was scared so I couldnt even imagine at 9!
That girl looked every bit of 9yrs old back then

[impagain]

Seeing her now as an adult she LOOKS like an adult. She looked like a little kid when she was, surprise, a little kid!

[righteousbyfaithinChrist]

I remember hearing about this back then and just was flabbergasted at the cruelty of the adoptive parents.
It looks like she has thrived. Now, she can decide what is important to her.