US couple accused of ditching adopted girl, moving to Canada

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana prosecutors have charged a couple with abandoning their adopted daughter in 2013 and moving to Canada, leaving the girl, who was just 11 years old and has dwarfism, in a rented apartment but providing her with no other financial support.

According to a probable cause affidavit filed in the case, the couple adopted the girl in 2010 and a doctor who examined her that year determined she was about 8 years old. When a detective spoke to Michael Barnett earlier this month, he said he and his wife had the girl’s age legally changed to 22 in June of 2012 and that his wife told her to tell anyone who asked that she “looks young but was actually twenty-two.

The girl told a detective with the Tippecanoe County Sheriff’s Department in September 2014 that she had come to the U.S. “through an adoption” in 2008 from her native Ukraine and that the Barnetts adopted her two years later. She said she lived with the Barnetts in Hamilton County, just north of Indianapolis, for about two years, after which they rented the apartment for her in Lafayette, the Tippecanoe County seat about 60 miles northwest of Indianapolis.

Typical DemocRats

Holy shit. Who would do something like this?

I could never do this to any child I wish they would have better judgement on people who want to adopt or maybe check in on the child every so often? Something this is freaking crazy😔

None of this makes sense

A live look at the apartment:

Smh.

I have a lot of question about legally changing someone’s age.

The affidavit leaves a lot unclear, including how long the girl lived alone in the apartment before her plight was discovered and why an investigation that apparently began in September of 2014 took years to result in charges against the Barnetts. It also doesn’t say where in Can

wtf

Absolutely disgusting. Jail time, and pay for all the therapy this child will need.

Stories about the heartbreaking and even deathly failures of human evolution are,every day, infecting all news media--not just the NY Daily News. We are still lions who kill their cubs if seeded by another male.

Woah! What

WOW!!

This sounds like a Florida imo

Wait wait wait...their 11 year old could pass for 22 o_O

what 😲

Is that the new 13 going on 30?🤦‍♂️

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