18, Kinnard, filed a classified motion requesting Natalia’s mental health records be released. The defense appears to be pushing to expose Natalia’s mental health records to support the claim that their daughter had been lying about her age from the beginning and that she has a mental illness, according to The Journal & Courier. Jackie Starbuck, Tippecanoe’s deputy prosecutor suggested the neglect charges, both felonies, can involve leaving a minor or neglecting someone because of a disability, the publication reported. In court, Michael Barnett's attorney, Terrance Kinnard, attempted to press the prosecution to clarify the neglect felonies. Michael Barnett, 43, and his ex-wife, Kristine Barnett, 45, were in court and pleaded not guilty to two counts of neglect after they were accused of heartlessly leaving the country for Canada back in 2013 without their daughter with dwarfism, whom they adopted from Ukraine, according to The Lafayette Journal & Courier.Ĭentral to the prosecution’s case is proving that the girl, Natalia, was indeed a child when she was left to fend for herself in a Lafayette, Indiana apartment the Barnetts set up for her - but Natalia's age is far from certain, with medical tests allegedly providing different answers and her adopted mother claiming she was an adult sociopath scamming the family. The Indiana parents accused of cutting ties with their adopted daughter to relocate to Canada appeared in the Tippecanoe County Courthouse on Friday, September 27.
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