Maya Kowalski Addresses "Pain-Free" Photos Shown by Defense 

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Didn’t know a photo could show if someone is in pain … what a ridiculous statement.

HER COMPOSURE at 17 through being so brutally violated and losing her mom is remarkable

You DO NOT sue someone for the heck of it. I won a lawsuit from medical liability due to a recall of an artificial hip. It has made my life a living hell and I only got a fraction of what they are asking for. I hope they get every penny they sue for. The manufacturer of the hip I received knew of the failure rate before they implanted them. Medical malpractice is on the rise. I worked in hospitals for 20 years and I know how they operate. Just based on her treatment alone she should get money. It’s the principle of it all. No hospital should treat patients like this and get away with it. There are other families who had the same thing happen with their children taken away. This is a crime. The hospital should PAY.

This is so degrading for a young child. I hope more didn't happen to Maya that wasn't photographed.

Unless you’re in pain 24/7 your pain isn’t real - ridiculous.

There's always a psychological factor to pain but it doesn't come out of nowhere that's for sure

CRPS can come and go hour to hour.

Mayas father should be ashamed of himself. This is like a snake oil operation.

Hasn't this poor girl been through enough already!!

So what if she cursed!! But she was TEN!!

The defense shot themselves in the foot woth these pictures, Maya just wanted a pain free life.

How in the hell would she know what the psychologist “wrote down?” She was 10 years old and wouldn’t be on the same side as the psychologist and his pen. Sorry, not buying it.

Smarty. Lawyers did their job well

The fact that she went on without pain meds and only did her workout routine for a year to be able to walk again tells me everything I need to know. The hospital was right, she was being sedated and her crps “lesions” are actually just scratches. She’s all over social media wearing makeup, testimony about her wearing makeup since she was a 10 year old, now she comes to court bare-faced? Of course she’s going to look sickly under fluorescent lights. I see a try-hard. I’m not saying I don’t feel bad for what happened to her family, but someone had to step in before she overdosed and died. This suit is a cash-grab.

You can see that third hand is both older, and it does not have a wedding ring on….

She’s been mentally tortured and will always suffer from that

She eye blocks hardcore the second she looks at the jury when the judge asks if they have questions. What are you blocking from the jury, there, Maya?

Holding a rosary

She has an interesting memory, especially for a 9 - 11 yr old

This woman (she’s a woman now) better not ever have a baby 😂 she’s worried about taking off a bra in front of a nurse and social worker and still traumatized as an adult is insane. I wish that was “the worst moment of my life”. I do feel bad for her don’t get me wrong with her condition and going through all these events as a kid.. but she’s a woman now. So common. Every kid who goes to school has to strip in a locker room so we’ve all been there girl.

The sadness she felt when she found out she could’ve had a video call with her mom but was never told she could have one . 😢

Catherine Bedy should be behind bars for SA and child cruelty. She's hurt a little boy before this and how many others no one knows about?

Incredible how after that entire documentary and deep explanation of how chronic pain works we can even question how this poor girl is able to be sick one day and feel ok the next day. That's literally how chronic pain works!! Evil people who think this poor family is lying for shits and giggles, do they look like they're having fun? Would you like to live their life? They were ravaged by disease and trauma, it could happen to any of us.

My husband had 200+ lbs of lumber dropped on head/back area, he has a messed up spine and in constant pain, he has learned to live with the pain as much as possible and I would never imagine telling him he was not in pain because of a picture, this medical staff is horrible and should be ashamed.

Looks bad that the defense is still basically abusing her. The fact they keep trying to prove she's faking shows what she went through in the hospital. Jury may see that.

✋🏻Remember this tip. If someone asks permission to takes notes, tell them only if you can read them, and get a copy after and are able to add your notes for things that were not consistent and have both party’s sign. I was hit by a forklift at work and learned many lessons after the fact. Cover your self.. people are always looking for loopholes or judgmental view of the situation

Just because she had a photo taken, does not mean she wasn’t in pain. I’m in pain 24/7 but have to try and lead somewhat of a normal life. I feel so bad for her and hope she gets Justice from a horrible hospital who treated her like crap!😢

pain is subjective so the fact that the defense was trying to defend something so subjective is insane

Great job taking photos. These pictures just prove to me that she had lesions on her hand and forehead consistent with CRPS. How awful.

The Lawyers trying to diagnose a girl with a picture. The same way the Dr’s diagnosed a girl as being abused within an hour of meeting her. Or not being in pain because she smiled 🙄 It only proves how badly she was treated and what she had to deal with .. IGNORANCE

It's incredibly cruel to expect somebody to have to show you performative suffering just because you can't comprehend that somebody with a chronic condition can have good days and bad days, or that people with chronic conditions still try to live their lives. Plaintiff themselves posted videos of Maya arguably having even more fun, like jumping in the pool, when she doesn't have a CRPS flare up. Considering that (1) she never claimed that she never tries to have fun; (2) she has testified many times that there are periods where she's better and where she's worse; (3) it's a medical fact that she had very bad episodes, like in 2020, where she had to be hospitalized and has nearly died because she couldn't eat and had to have a feeding tube to survive that period, I don't understand what was supposed to be so scandalous about 2 photos of her attending two social events, especially recently, when it's very clear she can attend the court when needed. She has never testified to being a hermit hobbit, who has groceries delivered to her through a chimney.

So, I’ve never experienced chronic pain.. BUT. In my second pregnancy the first stage of labour took a long time. Started in the morning, but we didn’t go in to the hospital until around 11pm. The contractions hurt and just kept hurting with the pain very slowly increasing, but the timing was still irregular and relatively infrequent. After some hours of this my husband told me it was probably more braxtons hicks (I had mistaken them for the start of labour a week prior). I said, no, this is different, these contractions aren’t just uncomfortable, they HURT. That evening we hopped into bed to try to sleep as the contractions *still* weren’t coming quickly enough to go to the hospital. I was dubious about getting to sleep with so much pain but I was determined to at least rest knowing birth was relatively imminent. Shock, I never did sleep. At one point the pain finally became so much that I shook my husband up and said, “that’s it, I don’t care if it’s too early, we’re going in for pain management, I can’t take it at this point.” He looked at me with total confusion and said something like “it hurts more now?? But earlier you were really wincing and knocking your fist on the wall and you’ve stopped doing that” I was like “So??? It’s been going on for HOURS. Tensing up my body and face doesn’t help the pain it’s just a reflex that actually makes me more tired, I’ve learned to just relax through the pain now, but I’m telling you the pain is now worse, I can’t endure it, I need to go to the hospital NOW.” That was around 11pm. We went. I got some gas and later an epidural. I was finally able to really rest. The baby was born before dawn. People do not always SHOW when they are in pain, especially if the pain is ongoing.

Maya is a strong credible articulate witness. One has to remember she is describing events when she was aged 9-10, when I imagine she was more frightened at being separated from parental care whilst extremely physically unwell…the trauma attached to this must be massive. You catch the emotion of it all in her testimony. I hope the jury believe her account. 🐑🐑🇳🇿🇳🇿NZ

Even the name Cathi Bedy sounds like an evil villain from a Disney movie 😅

I'm not buying it Ms Kowalski

She's so eloquent. I can't imagine having her condition. Life is so unfair sometimes.

Wow! The commenters here being rude towards this child as if y’all know here life with chronic pain.

I'm in pain 24/7 but I still have to get things done! A picture doesn't show what a person may be feeling Inside! These people are just disgusting! They all should be in jail!!

maybe instead of saying the mother is abusing her child because she was told by a doctor her child has an illness.. maybe the doctors should be held accountable if she doesn’t have crps? why are they blaming the mother when she has only listened to what someone else has told her that her child needs? i just don’t understand because all this could have been avoided

I suffer from Gastroparesis… people who have chronic diseases often push through the symptoms and don’t outwardly show it. I have good days and bad days. I explain it to others “imagine your worst stomach flu day”that’s a good day for me.

Incredibly intelligent young lady. She outsmarted those lame defense lawyers.

Absurd to think a picture tells how persons feeling. This is the problem with chronic pain suffers they are judged that they must be fine if they put make up on Monday and actually wore clothes that matched. God for bid they crack a smile. Then they’re called hypocrites hypochondriacs, liars

Comment warriors: Please stop and think, have you EVER gone to work with nausea? Gone grocery shopping with a headache? Felt a little off and still gone out for supper or a get together with friends? Have you felt down, unwell for any reason and taken pictures with family or friends at a gathering? Everyone has! So this idea that Maya is lying, or isn’t in pain because she took a picture and committed the mortal sin of smiling… is an absolute lie and every human on the face of the earth knows this! Please take a seat and ask yourselves why you feel the need to deny someone their lived experience?Chronic conditions and chronic pain mean that people function at a baseline where they generally do not feel optimal even on their best day. When having a day that is better than others, we push ourselves, and often we pay the price for it. So before grandstanding about Mayas decorum and whether she is in pain or not, ask why it matters and examine your actions in your life, if you’re perfect then I will sit down and cede ground to your superiority.

Maya is very smart and needs to become a lawyer and fight for people who have experienced similar to what this family has gone through.

Cant believe Court TV's focus is on Maya's social life when we have often been told that her pain waxes and wains. Meanwhile, Court TV is mainly ignoring a HUGE issue facing the defense: the real possiblity that the hospital was, at the time Maya was there, having significant, widespread managment and safety issues. According to the plaintiff, the hospital nearly lost its accreditation. That's crazy!! Why are we not hearing more about this from Court TV?

Total liar. Lotta easily manipulated people in these comments.

you can be in pain & not show it on your face. just because you’re doing daily activities doesn’t mean you cannot be in pain

Before my Ulcerative Colitis Diagnosis, at the most severe of the illness, I went on a trip to visit my husband's friends and go to Universal. I was absolutely miserable the whole time. Was dropping weight, couldnt eat, had a high fever, was doubling over in pain, and was constantly in the restroom, and yet, there are photos of me smiling, looking like nothing was wrong. My husband was the only one who knew I wasn't doing well, but even he didn't know exactly how bad it was. I tried very hard to hide it, and hid in the moments that I was in tears from the pain. I did not let anyone know I was miserable, especially because my symptoms were embarrassing. A photo means nothing when it comes to determining whether someone is in pain or not. Anyone with a chronic illness, especially and invisible one, knows this.

The hospital staff making a big deal of someone swearing was ridiculous. All of a sudden they’re saintly.

My kid hides it when hes in pain, when hes hungry, etc. Thats why i have to constantly check. He doesnt like me worrying about him. These pictures dont tell anything at all whether she is in pain or not. How dare they think thay can take picture of pain. A lot of people pretend they are ok all the time.

There is obviously a dystonia presentation on the pic of her legs. The fact that they thought she was making it up, with an ankle extension like that, there’s no way. Looking at it seems painful

What a sweet, smart and brave young lady. Justice for Maya ⚖️💝

Not a clue who will prevail in this case but Maya is NOT believable on the stand. I’m not saying she’s lying; she’s just not believable.

I’m so glad Maya’s Father is honoring Beata’s wish “Take Care Of Maya”. She had a few moments of fun , so the victim shaming and blaming began .Who cares what she wore for Halloween, what car she was in , who she was with or where . Pictures done by professionals are staged.I’m more interested in what JHACH has covered up .

one of the things I find fascinating.. isn't what the hospital did..... it's all the things the hospital didn't do. I am not a medical doctor. I created my own college. Yet, suppose I were a medical doctor and suppose that I had a patient I thought were being abused. Now.. she tells me she is in pain. Ok.. how much pain are you in, on a scale of 1 to 10? she says "a 6"... very well, I will prescribe a pain killer for you... My point here, not being, is she in pain or not.. but I want to be very careful.. as I think she'd been abused.. i want her to start trusting herself. She can't believe in her.. if I, an adult, am bashing her all to pieces. how often this hospital went out of its way to bash her all to pieces on top of this. Why would you want to estrange said patient... if you thought she were being abused... wouldn't walking into a room, dominating an abuse victim, be like the last thing a medical doctor would want to do? If the abusers beat the abused into submission, why is the hospital and her staff, trying out out beat the abuser? I wonder if she had had a cell phone on her..... taking videos every time someone walked in the door, if that phone would have survived. if it had.. I wonder how many other charges would have come forth?

They should have other people with CRPS who can describe how the pain can come and go. I know my son can.

She is class personified, an absolute credit to her late mother.

It’s just terrible how Maya and her family were treated. Shame on all involved. And for her to not know video calls were available to her. ☹️

Why haven’t they asked her why she acted so differently(needing to be fed, etc) around her mom compared to having higher function when mom wasn’t around?!

I have CFS and Fibromyalgia. I have people questioning if my illness is real because I will often travel by myself and work remote. They don’t see me being in bed most of the time and having to be alone

She's an incredibly strong girl. Her strength has made a bigger impact than she could ever imagine.

Ms Maya.....sorry...but this sounds like reading up on the witness stand...just a story....hmmmm....dont want to buy the book or see the Netflix documentary...

The fact that she is being scrutinized and having to deal and cope and relive all of her past and anguish is bullshit! It's all just crazy to me. I feel for her so badly!!

Pity you don't show Cathi Bedys mug shot photo from when she eas arrested for child abuse.

What an angel. God bless Maya ❤

If you are reading this there’s a reason……No matter how good or bad you have it,wake up each day thankful for your life.Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs ❤️🇧🇸

I hope this process of being able to tell her story and speak from her own recollection is empowering for Maya Kowalski. Being mistreated and over handled - over worked etc while being a vulnerable young sick person in hospital care away from your family has to be a most traumatic ongoing experience with the various episode described.

Wait wait wait wait wait hold on a moment, I see these photos multiple times, but I just realized, since she changed bras, that means that those women were in the room helping her or forcing her to change her bra so they saw her nipples? Are we 100% sure no pictures were taken during that time? And that the pictures were just removed from the set early on? Were all the serial numbers sequential for the photos that are inevitance? What the h*** were they doing taking her bra off like I understand taking off that color bra and putting on a white bra before a court, but with a camera in the room?

I bet Hopkins Hospital will take action against all staff, especially Bety, after the lawsuit is done. The hospital will allow Bety to expose more children to harm until then.

A lot of the time, we are in pain, a lot of pain, but we're so tired of our friends stop inviting us places, because we constantly flake out on them. So I know people who will be at a 7 or 8 or higher on pain, but they Force themselves to go to a social situation, number one because of depression.. issue is, you start to have the self-hatred when you keep missing plans and invites... A number 2, people don't like being around people who are in pain, so we mask it a lot, so the people who are around us don't have that look on their face that people give you when you're in pain.. A mixture of pity and annoyance, I'm assuming it similar to the feeling that someone has before they want to take An injured animal out of their misery.. I hate getting those looks People don't like being around people who are in pain people who are in pain know this

Why is everyone so focused on how much pain was going on here? I'm sure the larger issue at this point has to do with the actual suicide during this . Being so worried about your daughters pain and then giving her the ultimate pain by killing yourself? Beta never thought this through at all. How can you sue for justice for Betas suicide. Beta is a controlling woman and actually used her own sacrificed suicide to prove her point. All my children were taken from me unjustly. You just dont go killing yourselves. This whole case is what happens when we don't worship our Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus, Yeshua Christ. God would've worked on behalf of this family and every other family had they been faithfull Christians. You people can say what you want but I'm speaking the truth.. I've been through the unjustified system and how these people will win is beyond me but hey more power to them if they can. Just WOW!!!!!

She is lying. Her representations are carefully constructed to be unfalsifiable. Her very disturbed mother has succeeded in making Maya into a professional patient.

I think they asking to much of money they made a lot of the Netflix and more I think they using this to the point that is just money so sad

The whole explanation regarding the photos makes zero sense. Why would two sets of photos be taken with a wardrobe change in between? The photo in the wheelchair had to be taken earlier in the day based on the sunlight streaming in. I hope the jury is looking at actual evidence in this case.

Here we go. The ghost 👻 is back and lying like her momma. Down right ludy!! GET THUS KID SERIOU PROFESSIONAL HELP due to her moms MBP l

The people who worked for this hospital were people who had put in incredible TIME AND MONEY, years of their lives, training to take care of seriously ill children. These people are motivated to lie, harm, disable children, or damage their families??? Do you understand that these are people who have trained for years to try to help children???? THEY HAD NO MOTIVE to HARM MAYA OR HER FAMILY. They were acting as COURT MANDATED REPORTERS to report suspicions they had regarding possible child abuse, which clearly existed with Maya, as many of her providers doubted her diagnosis, and were very uncomfortable with the treatment her parents were relentlessly pushing for. THESE PEOPLE WERE NEVER SEEKING TO DESTROY THIS FAMILY. THESE PROFESSIONALS WERE INSTEAD PUTTING THEMSELVES ON THE LINE, TRYING, IN THEIR VIEW, TO PROTECT THIS CHILD. Get down off of your armchair high horses and think critically for a second. Why would all these good people who have spent their careers trying to care for gravely ill children and their families suddenly change into soul sucking, incompetent, evil beasts when it came to Maya and her family? There was NO MALICE. I'm not God. Were they right, or not? Who knows. It's very muddy whether she ever even had this syndrome or not. Reasonable people, highly trained medical professionals, can even obviously disagree. It's all clear as mud. But understand, these professionals are working in incredibly difficult circumstances, trying to do their best for their patients and families!!! Don't believe that? Then keep your children at home and employ your crystals, and voodoo cards the next time they develop an infection, or horrible pain syndrome, and spare us all, especially your children's MEDICAL providers, your obviously supreme sense of all knowing sense of self righteousness. EVERYONE LOST THE DAY6 BEATA CHOSE TO TAKE HER LIFE, INCLUDING ALL THESE PROFESSIONALS WHO WAKE UP EARLY AND STAY LATE, giving up precious time with their own families in order to better serve other children and their families because they are dedicated to the children they care for day in, and day out. The EASY PATH, would have been to do whatever the Kowalski's wanted them to do. Less documentation. Less litigation. Less NOISE. Did they do that? NO! They took the hard route. The route THEY felt was best for a child viewed as vulnerable, and likely a victim of child abuse. But you know better, right? Nail them to the wall, right? And then complain, COMPLAIN, MOAN, and scream, when NO ONE WILL ADMIT YOUR CHILD TO THE HOSPITAL for uncontrolled, inexplicable pain because the risk of litigation is too high. I wouldn't touch your kid with a 10 foot pole, but then they are better people than me.

DIFFERENT NECKLACES AS WELL. I think there were two sets why would they keep taking photos if she wasn't accomodating. I think she is not telling the truth. Next time they should use time stamps.

It’s not just the hospital they didn’t believe her-your employee Julie Grant disregarded Maya’s pain too! You should be ashamed, Julie Grant!

For this little girl never talk to her mother in a private conversation for 3 months never a hug or kiss they are quilty as sin. The suicide of her dear loving mother they asked yes it is there fault ask any mother if she would be be charged as a criminal and told she would never see her daughter again. Her mother cared for her and was a educated nurse. find this hospital quilty!

She doesn't like pictures when she is sick. But that is exactly what the mother was doing. Photos and videos.

Yup definitely looks “pain free” to me. I mean are you even kidding me? What kind of medical professional would ever make such a claim?

Sense when did state and county social services DCF / CPS get juristrician on right or wrong of parent doing in MEXICO anyway?

Your absolutely right stacey

No pics no pics no pics…. I don’t care this is a million dollar case.. she’s doing too much..

What a lovely lady

This hospital took Maya childhood life and destroyed it and the effects of there power trip effective her mother in way nobody could explain what and how it destroyed her as well to committee the worst imageable act of unleashing herself! Now Maya will never get to talk to her mother about plannings a wedding or having grandchildren or just picking up the phone to call her mother just to say hi! I hope you get more than 200 million!!!

Kids who are heavlily drugged by their captors at a young age are not really going to remember that much as a matter of the crime facts that affect them!

You known cursive means handwriting, right? 13:37

I have fibromyalgia with sciatica and i get flare up. I have pain everyday of my life in different degrees. I know somewhat what maya went through. Obviously hers is much worse. They call it a invisible disease for a reason. Sometimes i wish i could touch a person for them only to feel a day of my pain to just understand

she looks really unwell during the trial.

Why is the cart before the horse here with hearing two civil law cases about Maya's horrific treamtment and abuse on her before the crimes against child case on the JH hospital staff?

She’s lying hard to get that 200 mill.

This whole situation is F'ed

9,10 14 year old girls are not to speak up for themselves...WRONG...!!!

What this young woman, what this family suffered!

Interesting the defense commenting that the photo in the wheelchair was supposedly taken at night after court but there’s clear sunlight coming through the window

Feels scripted.

It is disgusting how this hospital and the staff treated Maya. What I do not understand is that they never interviewed some of the other nurses and people that had contact with Maya while she was there for three months. Clearly this hospital hid a lot.

Extremely intelligent ✅