Updated On: 26 September, 2019 11:27 AM IST | | mid-day online correspondent
A couple in USA adopted a 9-year-old girl who turned out to be a 22-year-old woman with a rare form of dwarfism. She also tried poisoning them

Photo of Natalia Grace. Picture/Twitter
In a shocking incident straight from the movie Orphan, a couple adopted a girl child who later tried to poison them. The couple identified as Kristine Barnett (45) and her ex-husband Michael Barnett (43) were charged with abandoning their 9-year-old adopted daughter, Natalia Grace in Indiana and fleeing to Canada. The couple later discovered that the girl that they had adopted was an adult woman with dwarfism who was a sociopath masquerading as a child, reported the Daily Mail.
The couple adopted the Ukraine born girl identified as Natalia Grace in the year 2010 and they were told that she is 6 years old then and her birth certificate also showed the same. According to the reports by Police, the girl has a rare form of dwarfism which making her 3 feet tall and leaving with a problem in walking. In an interview to Daily Mail, Kristine states that the girl was not 9 years old but a 22-year-old woman who would threaten to stab them in their sleep and also allegedly poured bleach in her coffee.