The teenager at the heart of a $220 million lawsuit filed against Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital featured in the Netflix documentary ‘Take Care of Maya’ took the stand Monday morning as the case proceeded in a Sarasota County courtroom.
Maya Kowalski, who is now 17, is expected to tell the jury about her experience being in state custody at the hospital for three months and eventually be allowed to leave after her mother, Beata Kowalski, died by suicide after being kept away from her daughter for 87 days.
When the hospital’s attorney, Howard Hunter, began his opening statements, he noted that several hospital staffers believed Beata Kowalski suffered from Munchausen by proxy and they were trying to protect her. A judge ordered Maya to be sheltered at the hospital while the child abuse allegations were investigated. She wasn’t allowed to be discharged to her family or another treatment facility and could not see her mother. A judge ordered her to remain at the hospital under state custody.
Attorney Mark Zimmerman, who represented Maya when she was at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, said he felt as if the facility, and, in particular, social worker Catherine Bedy, tried to put up barriers for him to access Maya. "The hospital personnel, and specifically this one social worker, was limiting her freedom…Why that was? I didn’t know. But that was clearly her goal to isolate this child from her family and her lawyer," he said.
She went on to described how she met Maya and accused her mother, Beata Kowalski, of having Munchausen by proxy, but admitted she was not an expert on the disease and stated she had only worked with three similar cases.
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