'Take Care of Maya' Trial | Defense Opening Statement 

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She got worse with ketamine but improved with her mother/abusers death. Interesting.

I'm having my 23rd surgery next week, so I'm very familiar with the medical industrial complex. I call our health care system that because health care has become more of a business than health care. I hope she sticks it to this hospital and those responsible!

Accusing the mother of Munchhausen by proxy, and then billing for the CRP is absolutely criminal. This hospital needs to be accountable. Sally Smith needs to be eliminated from ever practicing medicine again.

Rooting for Maya and her family.

As a chronic pain sufferer, i can tell you that ive been given every medication under the sun and i am currently on twice the maximum dose of fentanyl which was requested by the back/gynae and pain specialist but my GP who has little more than a basic understanding of my condition, is always trying to reduce it. In fact, they did reduce it and this resulted in my depression turning into generalised anxiety disorder and for 2 years struggled. I have now lost my job due to this. Normal people will never understand the hell we go through just to get through the day. So people who really should have no right messing around with my meds has resulted in a serious decline in my mental health and i now find myself with a huge mortgage and i dont even have s job now.

This case is going to teach this hospital a good hard lesson. The courts should have issued a court order to stop with the high dose ketamine. Should have returned the child to this family and made visits to ensure her safety. They seem to return children again and again to homes where they are overtly abused ! Maya most definitely has CRPS. There is a pic of her leg blue and mottled. You can't fake that .

Its negligence JHS didnt even do an internal ethics investigation.

praying for you Maya and family. keep strong. keep still. keep going. keep fighting. we support you.

I don't think this case is that easy as in hospital bad - mom good.

The Netflix documentary is very very misleading…. I cried watching it but i always felt like there’s a lot more to the story…. this makes a lot more sense. This opening statement explained my suspicions….

It is not Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome. Look it up. It is Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. Misnaming it is an insult and minimizes the syndrome to those of us who suffer from it. This lawyer is wrong on so many levels. This syndrome can kill from complications it causes. Maya going to so many doctors and when they can't diagnose her illness, it is all in her head. This is a common occurrence with sufferers of this disease. Especially going to the ED when your in pain as sufferers are never treated well at all.

Mother was the problem

The Jury is NOT the most important people here, Defense Attorney. The victims are. You just lost the jury.

Parent is "pushy" so we kidnap the child. Pigs.

This lawyer wore his eyeglass on his forehead the entire trial.

If they had simply reached out to specialists in CRPS , they quickly would have found the mast cell relationship and deduced from Mayas medical records that she needed a mast cell protocol. They could have helped this girl and her family begin appropriate treatments. Instead of being too arrogant and abusing her, abusing her family, cutting her off from her support system during hellish pain. Instead of making terrible accusations that led to suicide.

I’m only 5min into listening to this and already rolling my eyes😤

2 wrongs don't make a right

From what I’ve seen so far, the hospital care may have not been perfect, but the bigger problem was the mother. She was pushy. She demanded unreasonable and dangerous care that these medical professionals weren’t going to give to a child. Sure she’s a nurse, but she’s not a doctor. She was up against so many doctors with more training and experience than what she could’ve had. I’m rooting for the hospital. I think they did what they should. I’d be concerned about the mom too if I were in their shoes.

But the hospital called DCF and continued to do so along the way.

I don't understand what trial everyone is watching from all these comments on the various trial videos, was the netflix documentary that damning? do people really not understand how distorted those documentaries can be presented? Johns Hopkins should not be on trial, all of the doctors that treated her prior who got her on all those drugs should be. I don't think people realize how addictive those drugs are and how dangerous they are to get hooked on. Anyone who has dealt with a family member adicted to drugs or alcohol will know how hopeless it already is when trying to get them help and how limited hospitals are in trying to get a person help, this lawsuit is only going to make it worse leaving families to fend for themselves as they see a loved one kill themselves slowley

I feel like this comment section is much like the free Britney move. People are led by emotion and have a hard time understanding psychological illnesses other than the constant narcissism and anxiety that are way overused and misused. It’s sad her mom killed herself and maybe the stress of it all contributed but maya never needed to be on that level of pain medication and improved off of it. While I’m sure the situation wasnt handled perfectly by child and family services they didn’t cause her suicide. It’s hard for a family to understand and see a suicide person objectively. Beada had issues with boundaries even after her child was taken and maya was lying in a bed in no acute distress. I have witnessed my own sister with borderline personality disorder, and munchausen by proxy with my niece. She subsequently committed suicide as well. It still does not change the fact that she was mentally ill too.

I haven't heard anything but standard nonsense related to the basis of the lawsuit. Alienation of her parents caused the mother's death, period

Did she ever try Tylenol??? Women have mommy makeover s all day long and use Tylenol!

The mom was over drugging her poor child in my opinion 🤔. I believe the mom was abusive in my opinion

2 important things- 1. It is absolutely imperative that folks watch the trial before having an opinion as to whether the hospital and Doctors were negligent and wrong or were not. Having watched Take Care Of Maya- I felt terribly for the Kowalskis and mostly Maya… it’s also terribly tragic that Beata ended her life …, however I feel there had to be more going on with her that led her to make that permanent choice because I simply don’t believe it was because the Judge wouldn’t let her hug Maya that day… or because the judge ruled that they couldn’t get Maya back right away- or that they were being investigated for Child Abuse… either the documentary didn’t address additional issues they were already having, or Beata was having or they didn’t know there was additional mental health issues with Beata. Watching the doc I did agree with her husband’s frustration that she continued to aggressively confront the nursing staff and Doctors. She didn’t understand she needed to restrain herself from antagonizing them because everything at that point was being taken the wrong way and documented for the trial/hearings. Had she been able to follow her attorneys’ advice and be patient she might have had a different outcome- it’s a terrible horrible dilemma for a parent who’s child is sick and you just want to get them help but you feel no one is listening to you. I don’t think Beata truly understood the negative impact her behavior had in the end and how negatively it was impacting their case. Her husband saw it and tried to get her to be patient but she refused to listen. * to be clear- I’m not blaming her and I think she was an amazing champion for Maya and her biggest issue was that Maya had a very rare and misunderstood diagnosis. I do believe there was negligence by Dr Sally Smith, given that so many other families were experiencing similar charges…. There’s simply no way Dr Sally Smith could make an intelligently informed decision about whether Maya was being abused if she only spoke with the family for ten minutes…. I don’t believe in Child Abuse Experts either- there is no medical diagnosis or mental health diagnosis that proves Child Abuse… it’s a subjective decision made after investigating medical records, talking with treating doctors, nurses and speaking in depth with the patients and parents and siblings and anyone else who came into contact with Maya on a regular basis and you take all that information and make an unbiased informed determination- there’s no way Dr Sally Smith did any of that and her judgment of child abuse was premature and unfortunately in this case it involved a mother who wasn’t strong enough to fight back. Sally Smith wanted to justify having her job and if she rarely ever found abuse as part of her job then why would the hospitals continue to employ her? She had to find abuse cases in order to have something to do and in order to keep her job. It’s disgusting and she’s disgusting and she’s playing with peoples’ lives with out any fear of consequences and she hides behind her “expert” label to justify herself…… it’s very similar to what happened to a mother named Danita Tutt in Dallas. 2. Danita Tutt had a very sick son who after years of illness ended up in Hospice and she was charged and eventually convicted of attempted murder among other charges all because of an “ expert” very much like Dr Smith. Her son was in hospice and the main nurse, Connie, called 911 and claimed Danita was starving her son so he would die. Although it was Connie who told the parents he was dying and they should make funeral arrangements and she stopped all foods and meds for the boy, not the mother. CPS was immediately involved but eventually dismissed the case for lack of evidence. However a Doctor at Cook Children’s Medical Center is considered the leading expert in the USA in Munchausen’s By Proxy - Dr Jayme Coffman. For some bizarre reason- Dr Coffman has more cases than anywhere else- in the entire United States there has only been 2 convictions of a parent for Munchausen’s By Proxy. Suddenly this “ expert” , Dr Coffman is investigating 5-10 cases a month In that hospital and has had 5 convictions from cases she initiated alone…. There’s a serious problem there!!! And it should terrify any parent of a chronically ill child in Tarrant County - and definitely don’t take your ill child to CCMC….I encourage anyone who’s bothered by the Maya Kowalski case to do research on the Danita Tutt/Colby Tutt case. Danita took a plea deal and is serving a 5 year prison sentence for aggravated child abuse which was pled down from attempted murder all because of Dr Jayme Coffman. Like the Kowalskis there have been many many families who have come forward and shared their harrowing experiences with Dr Coffman who continues to destroy families and be the “ go to” expert for the DA’s offices in that county…. She will do and say anything the prosecution wants her to if gets a conviction.

Its not the hopitals fault, they were tasked with complying with court and lawyers orders? He lost the case right then for me. On signing the admittance form, they signed over all parental rights to Maya and all of her heallth care.? OMG thats scary (you signed shes ours now you cant take her). Oh an here is the bill for 500,000 .... I wonder how involved they would have gotton, ifcthey had no insurance?

He might have a few technical points, but at this point it sounds like his defense argument is “my client did nothing wrong, and if they did do something wrong it wasn’t their fault, and if it was their fault it wasn’t that bad.”

This sad case shows well what the biggest problem of child protection services is (this is a global problem). Now many say again that what the heck, people complain if child protection services takes 'effective' actions and then again that it doesn't do them. But it's not about that (can't you see it - really?), it's about not investigating things properly! So the problem is making decisions without decent, correct information, and for some strange reason, they don't even try to figure things out properly. Because of this, the actions do not really meet the need i.e. not doing enough or doing 'too much' and wrong actions, because they are not based on reality. What other professional group gets, with official permission, to base their work almost exclusively on their own assumptions and use them as a basis for their decisions? Or choose who they listen to and who they don't? And especially when it's about _vulnerable_ children and young people that they should protect! How outrageous and it doesn't come to mind right away, who else has such great power over someone else, even without any grounds! And besides, these destroyers of entire families are almost never held accountable for anything (again, where are we, in some developing country?)! And on top of that, destroyed people often still have to listen to the belittling or even accusations and ridicule of obvious idiots who don't know the real side of things. That's truly how stupid and immature most people really are, and that's why it's so dreary and hard to live here. I myself have begun to understand murderers better than well, but you have to choose the victims from those who have destroyed/tried to destroy you or causes you more pain (including the bullies and haters, who spread things and slander and humiliate you over and over again even though you are already completely on your knees and have begged for help, note. real help, not just something someone imagines you need...). The most amazing thing is that adults, excuse me 'adults', excitedly start mass bullying someone, because they may have heard something from someone and if the person spreading the gossip is, say, a journalist, engineer, nurse/doctor, social worker, police officer, lawyer or another person in a 'good position', of course you can trust them, right? Just as we have seen in these numerous criminal cases...But no, these simple-minded people just never seem to realize this or that someone's assumptions, wrong interpretations, things that changed on the way, only partial/one-sided 'evidence' and even false stories or that you give the same back already exhausted do not of course give an accurate picture of things. No one knows everything about other person and it is truly very bizarre if an adult does not understand this. It's just as strange that they start to bully people they don't even know just because some mean obviously mentally ill and immature simple a-hole says something (note criticizing the questionable actions of people in a privileged/position of power is not bullying, neither is discussing public phenomena and people). And no, after all the torture, yes torture, and traumatization, I can't just be calm and polite and I really don't even have to.

Maya is improved and alive because her mother/abuser is dead.

NEVER GO INTO A HOSPITAL DEMANDING A ‘SPECIFIC' MG OF ANY PAIN MEDICATION IT WILL NOT END FAVORABLY...

Her mom is gone, and now she's cured.. go figure

As a nurse of many years I can see how this could happen with this girl and the hospital system. You listen to what you are told by the “experts “ ie the physicians , social workers and department of children services. So you decide that the parents is in the wrong. I might have been one of those. Not know her whole history. However as a mother I would fight for my child with all I have. The parents listened to the experts on CRP. They saw results from previous treatments. The mother was very strong willed and fought for what she thought was best her daughter. Could she handled it better so that hospital staff would not become angry, yes absolutely . The parents whose children have rare or complicated illnesses become experts on their own child. And that can come across to be abrasive to people who are used to be in control. But they refused to listen to her. Physicians dont want to be told they are wrong or questioned. I believe the hospital, social workers, physicians were in the wrong. Why didnt the physician confer with other experts who had treated her Did they? It all could have been handled differently. John Hopkins and the related care staff should apologize and admit their errors. We know that wont happen. It is a huge shame. I also would find it being unbearable to live having my child taken away after being told Im a bad mother. Sue for all you can get

Best of luck to Maya and her family. Their day has finally come 🎉 Let justice finally prevail ⚖️

One of the problems the hospital has is that they did not want to acknowledge to the family that Maya had CRPS, however, that’s what they billed the insurance company…treatment for CRPS was the diagnosis they put on her claims…🤔

The thing is though, the hospital seems to be aware that maybe the ketamine doctor misdiagnosed her…instead of accusing her mother of child abuse they should’ve taken a different action. B/c Beata wasn’t wanting the ketamine to abuse her daughter…she was told that this is the only thing that would work for her daughter’s condition

After watching this trial JH did nothing wrong. They saved this girls life, her mother was mentally ill and I wonder now if the father is also. A very troubled family.

i think the only problem here started when child protection services stepped in. it caused a lot of stress and trauma to the family. it did not have to go that route.the hospital couldve just stood by their medical practice justification rather than having to take the mother away from her child especially if the actions of the mother is justified by the diagnosis and opinion of the doctors who were under Maya's medical CPRS journey.

The John Hopkins lawyer mindset in thinking its a priveledge to rep them starts the case off telling you Im here to assure John Hopkins wins no matter what. Look at the history of John Hopkuns from the start, not a pretty one, have they positively evolved? In Mayas case, NO!

Dependancy... Such a terrible thing, no difference than this guys Dependancy on coffee or air. Stop refusing pain patients opoids and stop punishing them! Barbaric.

People say that patients should be self advocating, yet whenever I've asked questions (very politely) and contradicted any doctors' decisions, I received vehement backlash. I have even been thrown out of a doctor's office because my degree as a medical technician in hospital settings have allowed me to be aware of many medical screening and diagnoses. I realized that everything I've been taught about self advocating was wrong. Since I learned that, I've adopted an act wherein I act clueless and submissive to the doctor, along with learning that I must lie in order to receive helpful medical treatment. It's the doctors' egos that just cannot stand anyone questioning them, which often results in cases such as this.

I'm sorry, he is not wanting to say JOHNS HOPKINS FOR A REASON!! 💥😡 HE WANTS TO CALL THEM BY THEIR OTHER NAME BUT SORRY, THE NAME IS NOW KNOW AS JOHNS HOPKINS. PERIOD. WE'RE NOT STUPID LAWYER!!

I have amps, and I have similar issues, and for YEARS, I got told that I was making it up!!! I also have POTs and still get told it's "anxiety" by some ER doctors 😢😢😢😢 and this is Australia 😭

Thank you for publicizing this common criminal activity. Watch the story of Justina Pelletier - who experienced the same treatment. They lost their suit against Boston Children’s Hospital, but do some searching and see the relationship with the judges, and doctors, with Harvard. It’s very disturbing.

If youre reading this and youre new to this story, and all you know is what this defense attorneys version of events is, then I emplore you to look at all sides. Bc this narrative hes spilling is pretty far from reality of the situation. Want to know a secret... attorneys lie. Esp defense ones. Esp big money ones trying to protect their huge client like JHACH. If you look at the case as a whole, and hear all sides, it's clear that this Mom saw what worked for her child and wanted her child out of pain and knew how to get there. Is that so wrong of her? Was she pushy and demanding? Yup. Is it normal that hosp staff thought she maybe be abusive? Yup. Thats not the issue! The issue is once they knew that she was telling them the truth, they should have backed off the abuse claims. But they didnt bc they wanted to be right for whatever reason. She was not being abusive. All she was doing was saying "hey this worked last time so can you do it so my kid can be pain free again?" I can see why they initially reported her for suspicion of abuse, but once they knew she wasn't making this stuff up, they should have realized they were wrong. Instead they doubled down on their wrongness! For MONTHS! This attorneys version of events are VERY different from the REALITY of the situation. So take it with a grain of salt, as one should with most defense attonrneys. 😂 The hospital wasnt wrong for reporting their abuse suspicions. They WERE WRONG for not admitting they were wrong to begin with and making everyone suffer bc if it. When you see the texts between staff and social worker, you see how evil these people were and how they let Maya sh*t on herself while trying to prove themselves to be right, and again they were wrong. What they did to Maya and her family is disgusting and that Kathy Beady lady is satan.

The irony of DCF is that the person assigned to Maya's case had a criminal record of child abuse.

Could the mother have committed suicide because realized she got caught? Just a thought. I don’t think the truth will ever come out.

So why JH threatened the parents to be arrested and didnt let her parents to take the child out of hospital as outpatient and after called DCF. You had no right to keep the child in before the shelter order. What is your excuse for breaking the law?

I feel bad for Maya but I don’t believe everything she says.

Typical hospital lawyer. They enjoy belittling patients that complain. He argues about ketamine on a child yet they gave a young child prozac and a benzos. Ketamine infusions are high for Maya's pain level. It was just not being to exam her, it was being told no by a strong protective mother. Arrogance lead this ER doctors motivation to take this child away from her mother. This lawyer slandering a child for cursing medical staff is cruel. Like I said, hospital lawyers are passive aggressive bullies.

Who authorize Sally Smith to assess and see Maya before the court orders when she wasn't a member of staff. She shouldn't see Maya's file she had no authority

I think it would have been different if the hospital, depositions, and the nurses admitted that they don’t know a lot about that condition, but they are happy to ask questions and research it. But that’s not what they did. They jumped to conclusions, which is really common. I don’t think it would have gotten this far if they had not been judgmental and ignorant from the start. There’s nothing wrong with not knowing about a particular condition. There is something wrong however, with thinking that because you have letters behind your name that you know more than the parent, who is caring for this child every day.

As a mother I would do anything if it meant that my child would get the help she needed. Truly I really believe that is the reason for what her mother had done. I won’t get into the religious aspect of right and wrong , but as a mom many many many times I feel like I failed my children and maybe they’d be better off with someone else. I can not imagine the pain of the decision she made or the pain of the family . I do think the family does understand it as hard as it is .They still are heartbroken, sad , angry , and wish everything to bring her back , but I think in their own way they maybe see what she was trying to do out of love for her family.

Ya dont walk into Hopkins and tell them how to do their job. This was always going to end w a lawsuit

Rooting for Maya, brother and dad . Rest in peace Beata ❤

Every one of us with a complex, rare and/or chronic illness has been through horrofic but watered down, lesser incidents of the abuses and neglect Maya was tortured with. We know these blame game justifications. We understand the narcissistic and self righteous attitudes. We have full capacity to see through the repulsive tactics and soulless mischaracterizations this repulsive laywer is parroting. The hospital went so far too far in this case.

Gaslighting Maya has probably cause a more horrific future and that needs to be addressed in punitive damages horrid evil ego wielding staff it’s so criminal!

Did he start this out by saying now she’s relatively pain free. Did he not listen to her at all. She has bad days and better days. She by no means is pajn free.

Hunter so if she denies, you have no written consent for taking those pictures/videos and she refuses and screams head out that she doesn't want to be touched to take photos, you proceed and strip hey clothes by force and take the pictures? Standards of care baby

Both sides are at fault.

Wow, Mayas eyes zoomed right in on the def attorney with a long stare as he spoke of the high levels of ketamine and addiction. Her body language is very telling.

That hospital saved Maya from an overdose and harm from her mother. This sad all around and seems like a cash grab.

Justice for Maya!!!! Spread the word!

This opening statement just admitted that they held Maya hostage because the mother refused Dr Smiths treatment plan. Which parents have a right to do!! She wanted to take her daughter out, take her to her regular Doctor and get the treatment they wanted. But this Dr at John Hopkins had a God complex and because Mrs Kowalksi refused, they decided to go to dfcs and court and hold Maya hostage. This hospital forced a treatment on a child without the parents consent. Why did Dr Smith think her treatment plan was correct and Mayas other Dr’s were wrong? Unbelievable. Chronic Pain patients get treated badly by hospital Doctors everyday. It’s the worst place you can go in a flare.

This hospital nor the doctors understood her disease. And Instead of reaching out to the specialists of this particular illness they assumed the little girl was lying and to not believe her. They continued to abuse this child and take her entire family away.

Can you not clear your minds of being one sided? You can't wait to hear both sides? Imagine if those in charge had not reported this high dosage of meds this girl was being given and died. I guess you all think this family should sue that doc. Such a sue happy nation. This is a professional scam.

John Hopkins, you should be ashamed of yourself What you did to this family, it's disgusting and disgraceful. This is what happens when you go against big corporations. And NO, I'm not related to Dr. Anthony Napolitano

Go get them Maya!

If the hospital is found guilty, that’s like Michael Jackson suing because a hospital wouldn’t give him propofol. I’m sorry her mom tragically died but the ketamine was incredibly dangerous and the hospital was right to not give it and be concerned about the mom.

Why did Dr. Hanna give Maya ketamine if its not recommended for a child? Why did Dr. Hanna give her a high dose? Was Dr. Hanna investigated and disciplined? Since Mayas mother was in this profession why would she allow Ketamine and not get other expert opinions and let experts takeover? This is what got Mayas mother labeled, Munchausens by proxy. I believe Mayas mother was just so distressed by not knowing how to help Maya that in desperation she did what she did believing it helped, not hurt. I agree as a result Maya needed removed from mom and mom not be allowed to make medical decisions. But once Maya was helped and healing then the mom gets supervised visits and eventually reunification, but monitored. The mom would most likely always interfere thinking she knew it best and that was the real problem, but not through an intent to hurt, just a belief she was helping. Too bad this wasnt beneficially resolved by the mom getting therapy to save her life.

First. Do no harm! Seems they failed at the 1st rule of the hippocratic oath.

I certainly feel very bad for Maya and her family. That said, I hope the hospital wins. Feeling bad doesn't mean the hospital is civilly liable here. The staff have a duty to report, by law, if they suspect abuse or neglect. If they end up being wrong, and there was no abuse or neglect... is irrelevant. They still have a duty if they reasonably believe something is going on... Then, a judge -- not the hospital -- makes a determination on custody. The hospital staff have to act. They can't second-guess themselves in these situations otherwise, (1) THEY will be liable for negligence per se by violating their duty of care which is mandated by statute; and (2) MOST IMPORTANTLY, children will go back to being abused if hospital staff don't report because they are afraid of making a wrong decision.

Wow that’s a lot of ketamine !! Sorry, this stinks and her mom is dodgy keeping her in a state of permanent sedation. I guess people always want to blame drs and hospitals and they were probably trying to wean her off (which I’m sure the withdrawals are painful and traumatic). She looks healthy and great now!

Maya was on “21 different medications” but almost all of them are supplements like Vitamin C and things like Tylenol or NSAIDs like toradol. He makes a big deal about clonidine which is mostly a blood pressure med but can be used for pain relief and sedation alongside other meds. While I think he has some valid points, there’s a lot of misleading language that immediately sets of red flags. Like acting like ketamine use isn’t common for kids when it actually is widely used.

Who are these Pediatricians? In Canada, my son who has down syndrome is always sedated for various medical procedures with ketamine. So how can he say its not approved for use in children? My youngest (7) is on clonidine as part of his tx for adhd and disruptive mood Dysregulation Disorder. Clonidine is used regularly in Canada for children.

My God, Oct. 11, the hospital was ready to transfer her to an outpatient pain management facility. The family would have been together, Maya would have been getting physical therapy, etc. Mother didn't want this. She wanted more ketamine, insertion of a pain catheter, etc. That's when the court ordered she not be released to the parents. It was the right thing to do.

Just watched the film, such heart breaking journey. May the family find Justice with their truth.

Why do you contest CRPS now when you billed for CRPS?

Ironically, ketamine is regularly used in children for sedation in an ER setting. That was how my own kid was sedated for a fracture just this year. It’s been studied for this purpose and there’s quite a bit of research. Now perhaps this wasn’t the case back then and I do understand that the concern was this child was being regularly given ketamine and in massive amounts. I just think it’s a bit misleading to say ketamine for children isn’t approved or safe when it is. It seems like the issue is the amount of the ketamine and that the parents were walking in with medical advice from another doctor that may have not been current.

At this point I’m very suspicious of the mother. Sometimes nurses and pharmacy techs etc can be abusive medically.

This hospital did this girl and her family so wrong.. and turns out they did the same to many other families who went to them for help and ended up in a fight for custody with DHS for no reason. If you haven't watched the documentary, you really need to.. I forget the doctors name but there was one main doctor involved in all of it and she deserves to burn in hell. Her ego and probably I believe some evil in her let this poor girl suffer for MONTHS and cost their family dearly. A price that can never be repaid. And then they kept pushing off the trial for years trying to weasel their way out of it. I don't pray but I am hoping beyond hope that Maya and her family get every dime they can from this horrible place and that horrible woman and may she never work in medicine or around children again.

That girl was in route of a fatal ketamine OD. The hospital saved her life. They made mistakes, many mistakes. But they did avoid a fatal OD of ketamine.

Most medical professionals are going to carry over the person’s prior diagnosis until they have worked with a patient long enough to adjust it if needed, unless something is glaringly different. So I would want to know how long she saw each doctor and what diagnosis they may have put in the record to “rule out”.

Can I just hate this mix of legalese and Dr, and specialists, covering their own backs with condition’s that they don’t understand. For some reasons it gets at specialists when you don’t fit into an easy diagnosis box. They will bring up the most minor flaws in you as a person to dissuade you from even trying here in the U.K. I wish this family luck because hospitals have lawyers, in his words, ‘for a very long time’ for a reason. Think of a cluster of drs all playing ‘I will cover your back if you cover mine’ and encapsulated by lawyers…they’re like a virus with its protective wall and toxic contents!!! It’s a nasty, dirty game they will play.

The series of events tells you everything… *Hospital new Ketamine history before offering to transfer Maya.. So Even though there was suspicion, they were willing to possibly discharge patient.. *Once they realized mom wasn’t happy with the hospital, the hospital got the court involved… *Basically, if they believed that Ketamine was the issue to begin with, why is the attorney Admitting Now that they Waited to get DCF involved? The timeline here is suspicious… He told on everyone by saying “the doctors had Not reported any abuse at the time the family requested to transfer” He set the series of events and Everything they discovered prior to any court rep getting contacted . Then he states that CRPS wasn’t suspected, but they got Billed for it.. Ok, he shouldn’t have opened that can of worms..

He will end up being hated for representing the monster involved amd johns Hopkins will suffer for keeping that monster, hopefully.

I'm glad I watched the Netflix special take care of Maya before watching the opening arguments of plaintiff and defense of the trial of Maya's Family suing the hospital that KIDNAPPED/HELD HOSTAGE/PHYSIOLOGICALLY TORTURED+ THE RESPONSIBILITY OF KILLING HER MOTHER. I just dislike him very much. How dare he say that BC they knew more about Maya & her health then her PARENTS!!!

It’s extremely hard to hold hospitals for wrongdoing or malpractice.

The hospital got the court order to keep her against her and her parents will

If everything this defense lawyer says…why weren’t the doctors giving her all the ketamine arrested??? Why was it the parents rights that were stripped away? The parents were doing what the doctors were telling them to. How is that child abuse?

DCF NEEDS TO BE SUED NEXT. THEY WERE TOTALLY OUT OF LINE INCLUDING HER CONSTITUTIONALRIGHTS AMONG MANY OTHER THINGS THEY DID WRONG IN THIS CASE.

Yikes! A very different story. They may be right.

Interested to know how much damage was done to her developing brain by those high doses of Ketamine. And how much more damage would have occurred if the hospital hadn't stopped it. Jus sayin..

1:01:55 When this child did not get immediately better when her mom was removed from her immediate area, why the Hell was the Munchausen by proxy diagnosis not removed?!? A mother can not poison her child when she is nowhere near her for several months!

In my opinion Howard Hunter should be awarded the "Medal of Deception" for his highly skilled ability to lie!

There is no defense for this debacle! It’s total malpractice. I hope this family is awarded multi-millions and then they go after every doctor & nurse individually with civil suits. 😡

The mother was determined to practice medical treatment on her daughter doing what was dangerous to her health but didn't care she was more focus on what she thought was best and the hospital had the right to call in CPS and protect Mayia.

The moment the family said they wanted to seek treatment elsewhere, it’s no longer reasonable necessary to keep the Kowalski family there.

Its funny... They blame Maya's doctor for not taking other doctors' opinions into account....but then Dr. Sally Smith outwardly said she didn't trust other doctors opinions.