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we know when they're going to throw it

we know how they're going to throw it we

know how fast it's gonna go we don't

think about their game plan we know

where are their game plan is going to

end up they think we don't know it's

gonna end up over there we do

we're gonna be there waiting for it

so when they tossed us a little softball

we know

Michael's right here

crush it

and that'll be it

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I have already lost everything in my

life once

if you were to show up here right here

right now and you're telling me that

you've got my youngest son Ethan

and my middle son Wesley in your car

with you right now

and you're gonna tell me Mr Barnett

you can see him for five minutes

you can smile you can hug your children

it's like for five minutes

but to do it

you cut your arm off

I'm not even gonna hesitate where's the

machete

I will

I will do it hey [ __ ]

sorry I'm gonna get upset damn

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when this first started every single

night that I lied awake

I would be picturing every single second

in jail

I'd be going through everything I'd ever

heard of jail I'd be Googling hey what's

Shale really like in reading the horror

stories

but is at risk

everything

everything

sorry about throwing it I am a thrower

when I get mad

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in innocent as long as true thought

comes out it's nothing to run and hide

from

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Christine she has hidden a lot of things

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during Discovery while the police are

gathering their evidence requesting

a painted Christine's entire Facebook

history every message she's ever sent

every post she's ever made Etc it's part

of Discovery my attorney asked me hey go

through this and just make sure there's

no landmines that we should be aware of

since I'm just searching through does

this name that pops up

I'm just not expecting that somebody

that brought their kid to our date or in

about 2

tooth ish

married and these are extremely

inappropriate sexual nature conversation

a lot of

masturbating together

I want to have three ways with you and

my wife

can you reach out to my wife for me and

invite her

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and I get the I hit the floor crying

and then I see all about the handyman

and all about her making out with them

and all about her taking him to a

parking lot with the kids at home

having sex

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stupid

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my name is Fred Gill I was a celebrity

in the country music business three

about being on tour is the lady Factor

would you say that I I actually don't

want him

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Christine reached out to me over

messenger because they had just adopted

Natalya

and So Christine had some questions

about little people and it's awesome

advice and and I was more happy to share

that with her

our conversation started off very benign

and then pretty quickly turned into a

chain of messages that were

of the sexual nature

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Christine trying to entice me into

index by putting yourself out there

physically

there are multiple multiple messages

quite a bit more graphic and back and

forth about kind of thinking we're gonna

do

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it's upside down that [ __ ] that picture

talked about the fact that she didn't

really see me as small but

she keep me like everybody else I don't

want to talk about my manhood

um larger than average ask her if she

liked the world if she said depending on

if the guy's any good at it

was giving her so many orgasms

peel the sheets off the bed that kind of

stuff

eventually I was called by a police

investigator

about the messages between Christine and

I

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long after divorce with a woman that I

truly cannot even fathom communicating

with

I'm robbed of my ability to

do I'm still not ready to stand up to

her

and that right too

I hate this

is stop

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about two and a half years after my

divorce Jennifer and I found each other

God bless her pulled me up he yells me

like a soldier she is an angel and a

rock star at the same time and she

basically gets me back on track

that's really important and valuable

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I am so emotionally fragile and delicate

it's such a house of cards right now

a few months ago

I had a breakdown

I I had a I had a mental breakdown all

the pressure and all the weight and all

the constant

ability to sleep inability to rest and

ability to live just all came crashing

down this is all getting closer sort of

closer to think tense intense if I check

myself into the hospital

in June

they don't come talking about this I

might get emotional over it that I truly

don't have trouble talking about it

um

it was as close as I've been

I've been to a third suicide attempt

since the second one

and it's been 18 years since then

I have panic attacks all day long

I have anxiety attacks all day long

where we are at Mai Tai's office this is

the only place I feel myself anymore

this is my place that I feel comfortable

and confident and I don't feel like

he might be coming to attack me

I'll feel safe almost anywhere anymore

there's always a potential of some

random reporter banging on my door and

shouting my name Michael Barnett we know

we know you're in there

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it's a story that captured the world's

attention it was our case of child

neglect to the parents from Indianapolis

accused of abandoning their adoptive

daughter in an apartment

the barnetts will have separate trials

with Michael's just days away

sure you think they should go to jail I

feel like I was already robbed of my

childhood but when I got re-aged that's

when it really hit it hard

it's not right to do that to a child

they should do their time get it over

with and get right with God

Michael's trial is coming up

the judge is ruling that despite this

DNA evidence age still can't be

mentioned and that's a big blow to the

prosecution because a lot of their

accounts had to do with the

abandonment neglect child and everything

became now abandonment and neglect of a

disabled person not a child

is this trial gonna answer all the

questions no

judge has limited the evidence of the

jury can hear they're not going to know

that Natalya was re-aged from 8 to 22

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were neglected

no because I didn't know I don't even

know what that meant

well you didn't know that you didn't

report that hey you left alone and

you know yes because I didn't know that

I could call the police and tell him

that so the thing that the police said

that you said

saying they're lying about that

yes okay and the things that uh the

field case managers said that you said

they're lying about that too

yes

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Mike come on in how you feel

um

great

I'm red I am ready to whip some ass I'm

I'm walking into battle where I need

certain types of experts and I've got

them

and so those things are all true but

what I want to talk about is

people on the other table are not your

friend this is about this is a boxy

match Yep this is pugilism you have to

punch and get punched I can take a lot

of punches man 100 jury trials under my

belt

one thing has always been true

regardless of the criminal offense

it's going to come down to to the jurors

like you

you was Michael a good parent

was Michael a good person did Michael

Barnett abandon his 23 year old daughter

you're being just because remember the

question is just the fear Michael Martin

abandoned his 23 year old daughter

the jury is looking to see if you host

those negative qualities

the biggest part is they're going to

listen to your daughter

they're going to listen to what she has

to say

in my opinion Michael Barnett's piece

how are you going to respond to that in

front of those 12 people I have been

practicing for this moment

for a decade

I have put myself through the ringer in

my head and

since we started let me ask you this

how do you feel about the tie

Italian's a human being Flesh and Blood

thinking caring feeling emoting person

right just like you just like me

you know I didn't hear you say I love

her

I didn't we let me answer your question

within with an anti-answer so that's

much how do I feel better about how do I

know

there's there's not going to be hate

that there's not going to be anger

I've been a part of cases where

you know it looks really good

turns on an issue

the case that I thought wasn't very good

ends up prevail

Prevail basically what I'm trying to say

in a nice way is sometimes you can have

a great case of steak

still wins

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here's the deal for the lawyers

this is only about Michael

it is imperative that you not bring up

Christine

defending Christine Barnett will only be

saying Michael Barnett Michael Barnett

Michael Barnett

the parameters of this thing is did

Michael Barnett

neglect his 23 year old daughter

if you're jewer then you're hearing that

this person is incapable would it be

helpful to you to see her capabilities

in a multitude of areas

so we had different video clips let's

play it let's discuss it let's see what

we got

Terry Burnett running without assistance

in 2011 that's going to be a good one

this is a your house Michael this is at

my house in Westfield

the first attempt at Christine

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she's able to do

use that for is to show that the

diminished capacity that they're

speaking of in Lafayette

seems to be kind of an aberration

because she was totally capable prior

and nothing in her life changed other

than her her geographical location

next video

trash can free internet

not even on Wheels no it's not

full of this trash can it's her size

yes

hold on hold on yeah

we need to stay here you know focused

I get arrogant because we have a strong

case we're gonna try I'm trying to kick

this girl's ass

I'm not trying to be a friend

Natalia is my age only 15 she was only

eight years old her knowledge wasn't

there

well she wasn't eight years old

she was an adult it sounds like you're

trying to make excuses for a woman who

dumped her child

that's his job so no no hold on hold on

Jackie that's not my job to make excuses

ma'am stop call me man my name is Miss

weaver or can I you can call me either a

word all right all right hey do you need

to stand this you're not part of this

hey stop it

the barnetts what they did is wrong

their disgrace I think that there are

Crooks

how dare you play with a human being's

life

be thinking

you know be nice to see some

some Vengeance some justice for that I

hope my testimony can reveal the truths

I hope my testimony can help Natalya

from this

because she's had a lot of people

professionals even let her down

she needs a wing over and she needs

protected

because she's up against a lot

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today is today

I'm getting ready to face my best today

a lot of things going through our mind

right now

that was a sense of relief that's here

early enough

I'll be sitting in front of the church

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I'm on stage my role was gonna be

innocent looking guy sitting still

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I'm Tracy Grant outside Tippecanoe

County Courthouse for day one of the

Michael Barnett trial

it's a simple question did Michael

Burnett abandon his 24 year old daughter

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the barnetts have to be held accountable

you should be ashamed of yourself

you put someone through hell

and it was a child that you put through

hell and already had

a disability and issues and obstacles

that she was gonna have to overcome

did you put her through hell good people

don't do that

if there's no justice to what happened

to her then you can she'll feel like she

doesn't matter and that's not true

I pray that Italian has the justice that

she seeks the truth comes out and

all will understand

that God is with her every simple way

amen and so would be

a global audience is eagerly awaiting

the outcome

biggest Trials of the year but due to

Indiana state law cameras are not

permitted inside the courtroom during

the trial

today jurors heard from the manager of

the apartment building where the

barnetts place Natalia prosecutors tried

to prove not enough was done for her to

live her daily life comfortably

detective brand and Davenport says

Michael had a lot to say about how

Christine Barnett and Natalia were

constantly at odds

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she said to me

Lafayette is a white trash town

No One's Gonna care No One's Gonna

notice

hearing that comment that Christine said

Lafayette is a white trash towel no

one's going to care about her is not

good for the defense

Michael's associated with Chris that's

his wife at the time so yeah that's not

good

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I got a call from my office staff

telling me that this article had hit the

paper and one of the eyewitnesses

claimed that Michael let's

get to him that they were leaving

Natalia here in Lafayette because it's a

white trash town I'm announcing the

paper

we got to figure out how to do it

we got the entire city

pissed off with my client I think once

he understands the gravity of what's

going on I'm pretty sure he's going to

compose a little bit he's gonna break

down a little bit

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oh

everybody

day three of the state of Indiana versus

Michael Barnett brought the star witness

Natalia Burnett to the courtroom using a

walker Natalia was helped onto the stand

to face the man who adopted her and

allegedly abandoned her two years later

good morning prosecutors gave Natalya

room to describe her medical condition

and how much pain it causes her

the biggest bombshell in the courtrooms

was when Canard asked to tell you her

birth date and she had to say 1989 that

reinforced the fact that this case was

not going to be based on age

towards the end of her testimony Natalia

broke down in tears Natalya was the last

witness in the prosecution's case in

Chief in which she was cross-examined by

Michael's

Michael she was asked series of

questions where she couldn't remember

the answers and she was chided and

challenged and criticized for not

remembering but jurors don't know that

an agava is aiah's biological mother and

that Natalya was born in 2003 so these

questions she's being asked and details

she doesn't remember involved times when

she was six seven eight nine years old

no wonder she doesn't remember

I can't wrap my head around the fact

that jurors don't know the most

fundamental

fact in this whole Saga and that is how

old

is Natalia Barnett really

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after closing arguments were completed

observers in the courtroom said it

seemed like a draw it could go either

way and now it's in the hands of the

jury

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my entire life changes forever

most of I've seen the volume in there

oh a little upsetting

because

she should have been my granddaughter

and she

didn't end up

one o'clock on a Thursday why not

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everything that they said in their case

was Christine Christine Christine

christinka's name

so go get her ass

every church is different if there's no

commonality other than their assigned

task listen to this information and make

a decision

Nationwide prosecutors win 98 of their

cases he had most of them plead but they

also win about the same percentage of

Trials trials get hard to win don't go

tell me

where was this 98 stuff three years ago

you were told you you had no choice now

the worry can really be

what you got in your house

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worthy to speak a little bit about the

probably the best judge for this case

it is temperament is even

gives both sides respect

speaker

downstairs

not a question

not a question

okay I'm gonna go vomit and then I'll be

right there

that was quick

quick and bad

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let's do it sir

numb numbness can wash all over me and I

can't think I can't feel

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good

I know

it's in the hands of the jury nothing

you can do to change it yes

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period deliberations have concluded in

the Michael Barnett trial reaching a

verdict in just a couple of hours

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thank you

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we just finished this case we didn't

want to talk about

the dogs

anymore

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we're coming down today

any circumstantial evidence from 12

years ago

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[Laughter]

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foreign

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oh my God

figure out I wasn't killed yet for honey

torch

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the question

the 12 jurors only took a couple hours

to find him not guilty of every cow all

four counts not guilty clean sweep

complete victory for the defense

but I'll tell you what this is not a

vindication

Michael got lucky Michael dodged a

bullet

jurors did not have all the facts they

based their decision on The Limited

information that they were given

I would want to ask the jury in

Michael's case if their verdict would

have been different had they known

Elementary School age child when she was

left to fend for herself a child

they had made a different decision

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my name is Jane Parker I served as the

four person for the Michael Barnett

trial

I was born and raised in Indiana I'm

Hoosier vipers but Boilermaker by the

grace of God

during the trial there's tons of

questions

that really never got answered as we

started the deliberation process a

hundred percent of the jurors 100

percent

definitely

believed that Michael Burnett was

tea abandoned

today because the judge was very very

clear on what we had to follow people

were just like ah we had to go not

guilty

guilt ah and that was the

the town in the room oh my God we're

gonna be he's gonna be not guilty you

know this sucks so that night when I got

home I was straight on my computer and I

watched the Dr Phil episode after after

the trial how old were you I'm 16. when

is your birthday

um September 4th 2003. you say you're

16.

are you a 33 year old school

no it seems to show that Natalya

actually is closer to 19 now which would

have made her

crazy

you just think what a creepy guy who

does that with his daughter

who weren't given that information

that seems like a huge miscarriage of

Justice we felt that Michael Barnett had

really gotten away with abandoning and

neglecting his child and none of us felt

good about that

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Jacob I didn't even have to debate

anything they went in there and they

knew instantly I was not guilty it's not

even they didn't have to argue or

discuss it they all knew it

ever

since

it is it is like 90 percent

I feel it's certain they'll fall out for

the rest of my life and right right

after the judge got finished reading the

verdict and the jury left the the

courtroom

the the prosecutor then

right then and there to let me know that

she has now subpoenaed me to testify

your mommy

immediately upon being acquitted

Michael no longer had a Fifth Amendment

right against self-incrimination right

so he was served with a subpoena to

testify at Christine's trial now you say

how could a husband be compelled to test

ify a privilege yes there is a spousal

privilege however there is an exception

when a crime is afoot

snout becomes almost a ruby steroids

because

if there's there's more information in

the mix they're going to have a real

shot at getting Christine's ex-wife it

appears to me at least that the charges

that they brought against Michael

Barnett they did that so on the sense of

a trial run for the trial against her it

would be absolute beautiful Justice if

Christine Barnett was found guilty here

in Lafayette Indiana where she called

everyone white trash

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rightfully so you should should pay for

abandoning a child I hope she goes

through my help

I do think Michael Barnett what he's

been through if he had an opportunity to

testify against his ex-wife Christine he

would Harvey

he will testify against Christine or you

won't do I want to testify against my my

ex-wife that the mother of my children

what

is for her to burn in hell

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the emotions after trial are there up

and down

it's been the first days of natural

breathing that I've

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that I've it has truly felt

like there is a 10 ton Anvil over my

head

right up there

and unfortunately an anvil is connected

by just one single friend teeny tiny

little friend

and if that wasn't you know stress

inducing enough

there's like a cartoon coyote up there

with a giant pair of scissors

and crush me

that's not there now

so as the trial ended

alian I had this moment together while

his office I

book where there's nobody left in the

courtroom oh I can see

is an Italian

so as we're as we're having this moment

together we lock eyes

she just looks at me and does like a

little wave

a little wave back from me

and I mouthed something to her I think

she was able to get it

I just simply said

this is hard I'm sorry

but she's going through something really

tough

during the talia's testimony and

depositions

it was a relief to me

to honestly hear her describe some of

the things that

Christine did to her Christine trying to

beat the truth out of her

hand on that there was no additional oh

and Michael this and Michael that and

Michael this because Michael didn't I'm

not the guy I'm not

I didn't harm her

one moment

I'm exonerated

I am it's over I have thought

I bought a very hard fought victory

and my brain is saving strength for the

fight that I

that I comment

though as far as me being subpoenaed to

potentially testify

it because I've just gone through what

I've gone through

I have got protection called double

jeopardy Double Jeopardy basically

meaning anything that came out during

the investigation of this

I they can't go back and charge me for

it the prosecutor had made it very very

verbally clear

third going after Christine they want

her in the ground

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she's petrified

she's scared nothing she knows it I want

Christine to go to jail

there's not a line she's not willing to

cross

I don't care what Christine's gonna say

about me and I'm going to assume the

worst at all times and she has already

all the damage to me that she can do

what else is she gonna do

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it's worse if trial goes

for Christine when I got the call from

him and you said you Davenport Thunder

's trafficking

it was kind of taken back because of my

past and and

um enjoying the company of

women

sometimes paid for women

gonna say I'm not a bad guy but the guys

have needs anyhow

um

Davenport from the Indiana State Police

um do you know uh Christine they adopted

a young woman to tell you I said yeah I

think she

you mentioned something about that and

he wanted to know if I had ever dated an

Italian knife I kind of was well I was

like flabbergasted basically someone

asking me had I ever had sexual

relations with Natalia

in my mind I think what I'm talking

about dude I'm like whoa you know I'm

gonna say it it definitely um took my

breath away you don't have to feel bad

he said even if you kissed her I need to

know but if you're not gonna get in

trouble I think is what he said and I

said no I've never been intimate with a

little person ever

my entire life I know that's who not I

know that I never that this is not

somebody I met and forgot about and I

had met Christine and Jacob when I was

on the road I don't know how the officer

that you've got my name

other than maybe or he saw on the

message world the Christine tried to set

me up with her

I didn't take the babe no reply from me

I just been watching um give me shivers

to think that anybody would even

remotely do that I don't know there and

I think the people do go there need to

have their balls chopped off it's just

really it's disgusting yeah

thank you

she tried to send

them there's something else that Freddie

told us Michael that's a very serious

accusation to back

I think it's Our obligation to show you

this

I I'm not gonna pay attention I truly

don't care

I promise my thoughts

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miss this opportunity

we have had many pushes and pulls this

is the last thing I'll do everything

else from now on that I say no is no

no whose computer is this

how many pieces do you want back in I'm

not kidding

I don't care what's us

it

oh we don't

he does what Christine tells random

people in the public about me

Percy told me in a series of messages

that I

that I would in their life in so many

ways because she basically said that

Natalia

no

it's Mike's off

I don't want to talk about this part at

all

when I testify in the trial of Christian

Barnett

doing the right thing telling the truth

I guess I'll see you guys in court

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Michael's trial is over

P1 he's a free man he has his Liberty

he may still have to answer to some of

this though in the court of public

opinion

Michael Barnett being found not guilty

was very disturbing infuriating that

everything was stacked against Italian

she didn't have a chance

important Natalia we can't do this girl

you have to be held accountable for the

decisions

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time time

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