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So sad this hurts this is terrible look at her face and the boys fave the dada face they look so sad
Yeah well they won on the false imprisonment charge.
Heartbreaking documentary 💔💔💔
This case is absolutely vile . These people are evils and they deserve serious jail time.
Is not an anesthetic for horses or is it still available in a weakened version
Rip!!🕊️🕊️
Holy cow over 200 million. But lets be honest thats a drop in a bucket to them.
I have watched many cases and my heart has never hurt so much than watching this case😢 Spoczywaj w pokoju Beato [*]
I'm a recovering addict and I've been to prison with the worst kind of people and let me tell you, I've met more KILLERS that are better people than these GRANDIOSE NARCISSISTIC DOCTORS. Let that sink in. I've met murderes who are better people than most doctors.
1st responsibility is to cover themselves and tbeir doctors Same here in europe. Mistakes are made and people suffer badly. Some even die and rich doctors just walk away. Im so sorry Maya so sad for all the pain and suffering you your parents brother have had inflicted on you by these incompetent know it all doctors socual workers and the hosp management.
Im so angry and so sad and horrified by the stupidity of these doctors and social worker. Yhey should be jailed.
Maya should raise this as human rights abuse to the UN.
Literally, her rights as child, protected by the UN, was trampled on.
She will not get justice from the sam judicial system that sanctioned her imprisonment.
But we allow known drug users take their new born addicted babies home..unbelievable that the family had to wait so long for justice
Both of these children did so well under questioning maya & kyle were raised in a loving emotionally stable environment & the way the carry themselves speaks volumes of who mom & dad are & I don’t see abused children
Whole case is gut wrenching I can’t imagine feeling as if I need to take my own life to save my child being that desperate & broken feeling as if this was the only way to get my child home
Maya is so beautiful from the inside and out..
I am happy the mother refused to sign away their right to sue!
The documentary broke. My . Heart. Beata's final statement to the hospital after a torturous 3 months apart was "Please, Take care of Maya"
I'm never going to that hospital again…
Good think i live in a country where that hospital doesn't exist .
I don't understand way someone has to lose a life before somebody takes it seriously like this is just insane
Sad.
Something is very fishy and hard to believe about this family.
I see NO evidence of Munchausen Syndrome by proxy here
I have this disease but it was called RSD when I was diagnosed 10yrs ago. If the dr didn't make mistakes I could have been cured according to my dr, now.
It is the worst pain I have ever had.
It was in just one hand but now it's spread to all my extremities. I was a critical care nurse but this dx took my house and my awesome job, Thank you Dr. for the misdiagnosis.
At least I have wonderful dr's now. I broke my ankle bc I fall alot, and had surgery with hardware placed and the RSD/CRPS spreads from any trauma to the body but my new dr did a nerve block right away and gave me a few yrs of no pain in one leg, but they told me it will spread eventually, anyway.
I hope Maya is doing well❤❤
The mother seems unstable to something so drastic.
I’m so so sorry Maya , for you & your family , for the loss of your mum , for all of your sadness xxx
So called social workers and doctors that think they know what's best for a child, let alone the devastation of a family that is trying to do their best
There are more than a few outright evil people that work in health care at all levels – I know.
That poor girl. My wife has CRPS and the things they did to Maya was pure torture for someone with this pain disorder.
This will alter the hospital’s way of practice, and withdrawing the professional’s medical licence’s will not justify the damage they caused. It’s sickening to believe that power, in the wrong hands is a deadly weapon especially the narcissists.
Heartbreaking story. The poor son must suffered enormously, too.
CRPS stands for Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome, the “C” does not stand for complex.
Βγήκε η απόφαση 220 εκατομμύρια για την ζημιά που έκαναν οι και καλά Γιατροί και νοσηλευτές αυτού του απαισιου Νοσοκομείο. Αλλά αυτοκτόνησε αυτη η υπέροχη Μητέρα και αυτο δεν Αναπληρώνει Ούτε με Ολα τα δις ΤΟΥ ΚΌΣΜΟΥ. ΜΠΡΑΒΟ ΣΤΗ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΣΎΝΗ ΠΟΥ ΕΠΙΤΕΛΟΎΣ ΈΔΕΙΞΕ ΤΟ ΣΩΣΤΌ ΠΡΌΣΩΠΟ
i never thought the day would come that i believed my country is corrupt. we are unsafe here. all of us.
Lol, they dont have to be right under the law? Is this where we are right now?
And they awarded $261 million total and it’s justified!
Two more reasons to never go to Florida. 1/ Rank Republican disregard for due process with real justice and 2/ excessive awards instead of the first reason reasonable fines and real imprisonment. God Money rules apparently. Sociopaths understand money.
I would have included the social worker in the lawsuit – these people should be held accountable for their actions
I can't imagine being a child thinking that my mother took her life over this obvious neglect.
lol I don't think reminding the jury he was just a little boy every time he asked the brother a question was wise (implies his memories are less reliable). It worked out in the end though.
This is what we get when the government has a bounty on kids. I personally don't think they should have let the social worker off the hook.
This is so heartbreaking. The system must change. Thank God the justice system did the right thing this time. So sad they lost their Mom over this entire travesty.
The level of sadness on Maya’s face is truly a reflection of this poor baby’s soul. May God heal their hearts and souls
I have tremendous respect for that dad. I simply can’t imagine what this family went through over these years. May God grant them healing . My deepest sympathies. The trauma this family experienced is tremendously heartbreaking…
The abusive, authoritarian attitudes Health and Social workers establish to the people in need, are more and more frequents. Ill people or people in need shouldn’t be trashed but listened.😢😢😢😢😢