The court order changed only a date. Its consequences changed an entire life.
In 2012, Natalia Grace—an Ukrainian-born adoptee with a rare form of dwarfism—was legally transformed from a young girl into a 22-year-old woman. Soon afterward, her adoptive parents moved to Canada without her, leaving Natalia in an Indiana apartment with rent, food assistance, and disability benefits arranged.
But the central question would not go away: Was Natalia really an adult who had posed as a child, or had a disabled child been stripped of her legal protections by the family that adopted her?
That mystery inspired sensational comparisons to the horror film
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