The 17-year-old girl who appears in the popular Netflix documentary “Take Care of Maya” and who won a medical malpractice case against Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, filed a criminal complaint against the same hospital alleging that she was sexually abused there.
An attorney for Maya Kowalski told the Daily Mail that she filed a criminal complaint with the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department on Friday related to the hospital.
The complaint cites assault and battery at the hospital between Oct. 8 and Oct. 13, 2016.
The new legal action comes after a Florida jury found the hospital liable for all charges against her, ruling that the facility wrongfully separated Maya from her mother, who later took her own life.
The hospital faces $261 million in damages.
The jury awarded money to the Kowalski family for a variety of crimes, including improperly placing the girl under video surveillance for 48 consecutive hours and forcing her to strip down to shorts and a training bra for a photograph.
Maya Kowalski, 17, whose family received nearly a quarter of a billion dollars from Johns Hopkins Hospital, filed a criminal complaint alleging she was sexually abused there. THOMAS BENDER/HERALD-TRIBUNE Pool photo/Thomas Bender/Sarasota Herald-Tribune Pool Photo/Thomas Bender / USA TODAY NETWORK Maya Kowalski, who cried in court last week after Johns Hopkins Hospital awarded her family millions in damages and damages, has now filed a criminal complaint against the hospital alleging sexual abuse. Law&Crime Network
They found that a hospital staff member also committed misconduct by sometimes kissing the then-10-year-old girl and making her sit on his lap.
Attorney Greg Anderson said that while Maya was “imprisoned” in the hospital, a man who appeared to be a doctor entered her room, pulled down her pajamas and underwear and looked at and touched her private parts.
“Maya suppressed this until about four weeks ago, [but] “she made some notes to both the psychiatrist there at the time, Dr. Katzenstein, and later to Dr. Henschke, the two psychiatrists she saw along the way.” Anderson said.
Maya Kowalski hugs her attorney Nick Whitney after a jury awarded her family more than $200 million on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. POOL PHOTO/Mike Lang/Sarasota Herald-Tribune / USA TODAY NETWORK
Lawyers for the hospital emailed the Post a statement Saturday about the situation.
“These allegations originally arose during the trial and were not admitted in the case. As soon as the hospital learned of the allegations, and in accordance with their policies, they immediately launched an internal investigation and contacted police last month. Federal privacy laws prevent Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital from sharing further information, but the hospital takes allegations of this nature very seriously and always puts the safety of its patients above all else.”
Kowalski was taken to the hospital in October 2016 by her mother to receive treatment for a painful neurological condition known as chronic regional pain syndrome.
Beata Kowalski demanded that her daughter receive aggressive ketamine treatment, an approach she said had previously alleviated her symptoms.
The Kowalski family, including Maya’s mother, father and sister, were featured in a popular Netflix documentary, “Take Care of Maya.” Courtesy of Netflix Maya’s mother, Beata Kowalski, hanged herself when she was prevented from seeing Maya for three months. Courtesy of Netflix
Maya’s mother said she was put into a coma with ketamine in Mexico, an unconventional treatment that had improved her condition.
But doctors were suspicious of the mother’s claims and ultimately concluded that she suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, in which a parent fabricates or exaggerates a child’s symptoms to gain sympathy and attention.
Kowalski testified at trial that hospital staff dismissed his condition as largely imaginary and often mocked his complaints of pain.
The center contacted Florida child welfare authorities to report suspected child abuse. After an investigation, a judge placed Maya on a state medical ward, isolating her from her family.
Maya Kowalski was 10 years old when she last saw her mother in a hospital room at Johns Hopkins All Childrens Hospital.Google Map
Distraught over compensation and facing accusations of child abuse, Beata Kowalski hanged herself in the garage of her family home three months later.
Maya grabbed Beata’s rosary and cried uncontrollably when the jury’s decision was announced in court Thursday.
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