The family of Maya Kowalski, the subject of Netflix’s “Take Care of Maya,” allege that a report of child abuse from Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital led to Beata Kowalski taking her own life. The Kowalski’s are suing doctors, the Department of Children and Families, and Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital for $200 million dollars in connection to Beata’s death. According to court documents, the child abuse case against Beata was pushed forward after Maya’s physician confirmed her condition, complex regional pain syndrome, was not the fault of her parents. During the time Beata was separated from Maya, she took her own life.
Trial Moments:
00:00 Court Begins
00:02:55 Judge and Counsel Give Appearances
00:03:47 Arguments Outside the Presence of the Jury
00:10:58 Judge Recognizes Superior Efforts of Many on the Case
00:31:35 Plaintiff Closing Argument by Gregory Anderson & Nick Whitney
01:50:49 Court Goes on a Break
02:06:30 Defense Closing Argument by Ethan Shapiro
03:51:08 Court Goes on on a 10 Minute Break
04:02:40 Judge Handles Housekeeping Matters
04:07:57 Plaintiff Rebuttal Closing Argument by Gregory Anderson
04:49:33 Judge Hunter Carroll Resumes with Reading of Jury Instructions & Verdict Form
04:48:30 Jury Sent To Deliberate
07:36:38 Jury Note Received
07:48:19 Jury Brought In – Judge Responds to the Note Received
09:47:06 Judge Receives 2nd Note From Jury
10:03:34 Judge Receives 3rd Note From Jury
10:14:16 Judge Speaks with Jury Regarding Notes Received
10:17:11 Jury sent home
10:21:35 Court Adjourns
Total Deliberation Time For Day One: 04:26:15
Regarding Jury Verdict: Your Verdict must be Unanimous, that is, your verdict must be agreed to by each of you. When you have agreed on your verdict, finished filling out the form, your foreperson must write the date and sign it at the bottom and return the verdict to the bailiff.
(Jury Question, First Jury Note): We’d like to access (economist) Kristy Kirby’s financial money document that possesses the lost earned moneys that Maya would earn, also we have docs we need to review but don’t know how to find it. Jury has not been able to open the docs on the flash drive given to them.
Second Jury Note: 6:15pm We will be done TY!
Third Jury Note: 2nd Note: Y’all, we have not been able to locate any of the calculations about future amounts. Witness Kurby was on zoom and Whitney mentioned them today. It was said that we have all this at deliberation. Well…if we do have it, we ain’t found it in all these files. So, without these witness figures, you’ll be lucky if the there will be enough awarded to pay your gas to drive to court, or we’ll be here til next Friday.
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Jack Kowalski got that "Resting Victim Face" on lock.
Scarlet pumpernickel
I really can't believe the family actually won this. Dr Anderson closing arguments were very compelling though. But i still don't think it was compelling enough to award this fraudulent family 260 million dollars. That's just absurd. Yes, social services certainly crossed the line in multiple occasions, but the hospital is not liable for that. The hospital simply told social services their worries, rightly so, and social services didn't due enough of their own due diligence. I don't believe any of those female nurses left Maya in her own feces. That didn't happen. I don't believe the sa accusation that was brought out of nowhere either. This family will be found out eventually.
All throughout the trial, people harping that the Kowalski's were greedy, 200mil was too high an ask etc.. annoyed me. They asked 50 mil. The other 150mil was an arbitrary punitive damage CAP. not a guarantee. Just "hey, IF you award the 50 mil, punitives cap at 3x the compensatory."
The media, JHACH sympathizers, and the ill informed conflated the number and ran with it.
I was ok until I watched the tear roll down Kyle's face as they were talking about his Mom & he was trying so hard to stay strong. Seeing that broke me.
Mr Shapiro fails to realise in his closing that this is not about Maya’s illnesses and/or causation. This is about what JHACH did to that family.
Excellent judge
10:05:00 i just love that at this point it is very clear that the jury aready sided with maya, and are now ust making the math, and the defense knows it, you an see in their butts faces that they know they lost, SUCK THAT!
Lets ask if they want a friggen calculater 😂
24:40 he even got emotional <3 judge, i nt always agreed with you on this case, but aside from many, even tough sometimes i considered it, i dont think you were partial in it, i think, again, even if i disagree with some of your rullings, you were trying to be fair and honest in the trial, so thank you for it.
So the defense argued a neurologist doesn't use ketamine. Well, no duh. Did no one listen to the trial? You have to be an anesthesiologist to use it. Sigh. Defense lost me trying to twist the truth.
Maya was brainwashed by her mom and even though the hospital was wrong her mom was the criminal
Hate to say this but the law is fuked up if hospital would have let her go and she died then they would have been held.liable
I think the mother was guilty and she killed herself because she knew it would be found out and she would be imprisoned
Victory for the Kowloski family 🎉🎉🎉🎉 they win hugely!
I'm a bit on the fence about this one,I will say Maya sure looks quite healthy and fine in this video
I'm not sure how I feel about this,I happen to know from experience dcs or dyfs is a completely illegal and a corrupt criminal organization that destroys families,I was a victim of dyfs, this is an odd case,I hate to say it but Maya did get better a lot better after her mother died!! I mean was the mother guilty of things who knows, did the mother have munchowse disease or whatever you call it?? The father did tell the police officer that he would not mind if the mother never was allowed to see Maya again hmm confusing case
Allowing attorneys to approach during closing statement ? unheard of
bottom line: if Beata had taken Maya home in Oct and continued same path she was insisting on then I seriously doubt Maya would have reached her 13th birthday. but agree with Anderson's point that Hanna and Kirkpatrick should have reported
The judges "hairfluff" should get a life sentence imo 😂😂😂
Well Done Our Good Brother Judge God Bless You Amen xxxxxxx XXXXXXX And God Bless Your Earthly Life Time And Earthly Family Amen xxxxxxx XXXXXXX
Justice Amen xxxxxxx XXXXXXX GOD BLESS YOU MAYAS LEGAL TEAM VERY WELL DONE GOD BLESS YOU ALL AMEN XXXXXXX AND GOD BLESS YOUR EARTHLY LIFE TIMES AND EARTHLY FAMILYS AMEN XXXXXXX
Judge Carol is everything in this trial, unbiased, fair & just I wish all of them were took things serious like he does, one of the best judges I've seen in action! I have gotten a new respect for these judges it's a lot of work, both sides of the lawyers were amazing as well and put on a good case
Does anyone else think the jury watched the documentary?
The truth is usually in the middle. In this case its slightly towards the defense, but i see jhach def wasn't perfect in this ordeal.
Anderson's close is so disorganized
The patience and perseverance of the kowalskis is amazing. And their lawyers rock!!
This comment section is really disturbing…
This is classic munchowsen by proxy. The mom was recording and filming her child’s “experience” from day one. The mom is getting attention. Maya is too. She thinks she knows better than all doctors. Ketamine is not a fail safe drug. There are severe side effects. Anyone who has done it recreationally knows how strong a 100-200 mg/cc dose of ketamine esp through IV. That’s insane. The footage of Maya in John Hopkins hospital, does it look like she’s suffering and in agony? Now she’s cured all of a sudden also. No. This verdict will come back on appeal 100%. People don’t kill themselves like mayas mom unless they are ridden with extreme guilt. This is a disgrace. I feel bad for Maya and the dad. The mom was a piece of garbage
👀Wait till the jury sees what they left out about beata 🧐🤷♀️.. not to mention they left out Maya asking for money a fundraiser if I remember correctly. 🤷♀️👎🤔👀
Butt for all
Im sorry but its unbelievable that a case of this magnitude are left in the hands of people with this level of intellect. Cant even find a folder/file on a computer? Are you serious? And you expect these knuckleheads to grasp what these physicians/experts testified to? And whats up with using profanity/slang in a formal setting?.
American justice system are flawed indeed.
The titanic song is so appropriate. The family should make a memory video with this song about thier mom to cherish
maya won HURRAY.
Defense closing made a couple of decent points, but overall smoke and mirror tactic is not lost on me (if I'm on the jury). And just another example of the culture…not nice! Own your bad acts, and admit your wrongs. THEN defend on the points you think are still valid.
they said y’all aint allowed to have a dictionary wtf 😂
the delusional people in the comments that are for the john hopkins hospital are merely uneducated, inept and unintelligent opinionated people who have no regard for the truth and completely disregard it based on visible emotional distress. unfortunately for yourselves, the hospital is completely at fault in this situation and set off the chain of reactions in regard to their mistakes. beata was not suicidal, neither depressed, until after she was accused of medical negligence. the hospital continuously went at her for something that was completely unwarranted and they deserve to be done for it. they did not treat maya appropriately in regard to her diagnosis in which her mother (a nurse) made them aware of. they charged the kowalski's on crps treatment for months while they continuously told her that the condition does not exist and she was making it up. whether you like it or not, the hospital were hugely negligent in their response to the situation and should be held responsible. the kowalski's deserve to be justified for what they had to go through. bear in mind they waited years and pushed a trial forward for years to get to this point. don't be a disgusting immoral human being just because you're inherently jealous and ignorant of what is clearly in front of you.
I wonder how the alternates are chosen. A drawing of names?
Moment of truth hopefully
4:30:35 “If they had their own Dr. Tremp, talking about the freightway to college, which is what he was talking about before all this happened to her, if they had their own Dr. Tremp, where is he﹖”
Robert Tremp Jr., a “vocational rehabilitation coach” who testified as to Maya Kowalski's "altered" potential as a wage-earner, IS NOT A DOCTOR as plaintiffs attorney Mr. Anderson states 2x in his closing argument.
I pray the jury sees right through Mr. Anderson’s skewed version of events—Beata Kowalski had given up on Maya, believed she was terminal with no other option, the hospital, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, saved Maya’s life and to now prey on their associates who from all the evidence i’ve seen have done nothing accused of, And it was never about ’going after’ Beata Kowalski, any parent who believed that almost killing her daughter needs to take a step back—the hospital didn’t make the court order, it’s the JUDGE, so, why is it that Mr, Anderson refused to acknowledge that﹖ I believe that putting forth a dishonest dialogue in a documentary, all by lying, and Maya is now a ‘celebrity’ based on these lies, and most of these viewers just believed what she said, not caring to verify if she was being honest, nor even acknowledge her lies on the stand, so, it is disturbing to watch these events unfold as they have.
I don’t give a fig what Shapiro would say? The sound of his lying voice makes me want to gag. If he wins, he will be paid millions of dollars. Don’t be fooled. This is all about money. The hospital would have settled like they did with the other families had the Kowolski’s not asked for so much. Glad they stuck to their guns for their mom. Right is right and this hospital was way wrong.
7:22 Attorneys & Judge discuss the legality of the large sum of damages, that the Planiff attorneys will present to jurors.
Pay up sukkas, it's over.
JUROR DISMISSED FROM 'TAKE CARE OF MAYA' TRIAL
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This Anderson guy is so disrespectful! This "Sally Smith Character"? She is an MD. Also, Mr. Anderson, a Physician's Assistant is not the same as a nurse.
What an amazing judge!💜