A Florida hospital in the US must pay $211 million to the family of a woman who committed suicide in 2016 after being falsely accused of abusing her sick daughter, the case that inspired the Netflix documentary “Take Care of Maya.”
After an eight-week trial, a jury this week found the hospital guilty Johns Hopkins All Children’s, in Ston the west coast of Florida, is responsible for seven charges against him, including the kidnapping of minor Maya Kowalski, which led to her mother’s suicide.
The jury decided that the hospital must compensate the family of Maya Kowalski, the protagonist of the documentary.
Other accusations were false imprisonment, medical negligence, false billing and assault on a minor who was imprisoned in the mentioned health center in 2016 on the grounds that her mother gave her medication irresponsibly.
The jury found that hospital dealing with “extreme and outrageous” behavior andn the treatment of Maya, who was then 10 years old.
As a child, Maya was diagnosed with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), a rare neurological condition that causes severe pain at the slightest touch, the documentary says.
In 2016, when Maya was admitted to the hospital for abdominal pain, medical services reported her mother, Beata Kowalski, to the Department of Children and Families (DCF) claiming she had treated the girl with ketamine, a drug that the mother said helped ease her pain. .
The mother was accused of child abuse and after more than two months of being away from her daughter, in January 2017, at the age of 43, she committed suicide.
The documentary shows the family drama, but also the long process he went through family in order for the judiciary to recognize the case.
According to the Tampa Bay Times, the Kowalski family will receive more than $211 million in damages.
The compensation, he states, was approved because the hospital decided to place the girl in a room equipped with video surveillance for 48 hours, strip her down to shorts and a sports bra, and take photos without the permission of her parents or the court.
Source: Panama America
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