Jury Awards $261 Million in Damages in ‘Take Care of Maya’ Case

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 $261 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.

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