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   On 19 Jun 2023, MattWalsh  posted some   
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   > Another abusive left-wing queer employing shithole gets the punishment   
   > it deserves.   
      
   VENICE — Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital falsely imprisoned and   
   battered a 10-year-old Venice girl and contributed to her mother’s   
   suicide, according to a jury that awarded damages of more than $211   
   million to her family.   
      
   In a major legal defeat for the St. Petersburg hospital, the jury on   
   Thursday found that the hospital engaged in “extreme and outrageous”   
   conduct in its treatment of Maya Kowalski and her family after an   
   October 2016 emergency room visit. The girl’s mother, Beata Kowalski,   
   took her own life after Maya was removed by the state and sheltered at   
   All Children’s for three months.   
      
   The jury of four women and two men sided with the Kowalskis on every   
   question they were asked to adjudicate. All Children’s conduct   
   contributed to Beata’s Kowalski’s death, they said, and the hospital   
   falsely imprisoned Maya when it blocked the family from leaving the   
   hospital with their child.   
      
   Damages were awarded for the hospital’s decision to place the then   
   10-year-old girl in a room equipped with video surveillance for 48 hours   
   and to strip her down to her shorts and training bra and photograph her   
   without permission from her parents or a court.   
      
   There was also an award for the conduct of a hospital social worker who   
   conducted the photography of the girl and who sometimes kissed and   
   hugged the girl and sat her on her lap.   
      
   The verdict in a sometimes fractious eight-week civil trial in Sarasota   
   County came on the third day of jury deliberation. As it was read to the   
   court, the family, who had fought for five years to get the case in   
   front of a jury, sobbed and held each other. Maya clung onto her   
   mother’s rosary beads.   
      
   In addition to the financial blow to All Children’s, the case has   
   generated worldwide headlines after it was turned into a documentary   
   called “Take Care of Maya.” Released on Netflix, it was viewed almost 14   
   million times in the first two weeks after its June release.   
      
   The final amount the hospital will have to be pay will likely be higher   
   still, as the jury ruled the hospital should also pay punitive damages   
   for the counts of false imprisonment and battery. Punitive damages are   
   intended to punish harmful behavior and deter similar future conduct.   
      
   Hospital attorneys said they will appeal the verdict based on “clear and   
   prejudicial errors” and accused the Kowalskis’ attorneys of misleading   
   the jury.   
      
   “The facts and the law remain on our side, and we will continue to   
   defend the lifesaving and compassionate care provided to Maya Kowalski   
   by the physicians, nurses and staff of Johns Hopkins All Children’s   
   Hospital and the responsibility of all mandatory reporters in Florida to   
   speak up if they suspect child abuse,” said attorney Howard Hunter in a   
   statement.   
      
   In closing statements on Monday, Greg Anderson, lead counsel for the   
   Kowalski family, characterized the hospital’s defense of its actions as   
   “revisionist history” that attempted to blame the family for the   
   hospital’s mistreatment of Maya and her mother. All Children’s doctors,   
   he said, wanted to punish a mother who dared to question their medical   
   expertise.   
      
   “What was the purpose of all this other than arrogance and the belief   
   they could get away with it,” he said.   
      
   Maya already had a diagnosis and had been treated for complex regional   
   pain syndrome roughly a year before her family brought her to All   
   Children’s.   
      
   But doctors there were skeptical of the diagnosis and, instead, called   
   the state abuse hotline to report Maya’s mother, Beata Kowalski, for   
   suspected medical child abuse. After a child protection investigation, a   
   judge ordered that Maya be removed from her family and sheltered at the   
   hospital. After 3 months with no physical contact with her daughter,   
   Beata Kowalski took her own life.   
      
   Judge Hunter Carroll had ruled before the trial that the hospital could   
   not be blamed for the state’s decision to shelter Maya at the hospital   
   nor for a decision by doctors to report Beata Kowalski to the abuse   
   hotline.   
      
      
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