PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Anderson said after the years-long hardship, pain and suffering endured from the case this was yet another blow to the family who have already endured so much. 'Ms Kowalski was there under false imprisonment by Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital as determined yesterday by a jury,' he explained. 'During that first period of time of her imprisonment there in October a man entered the room appeared to be a physician without a chaperone or any female or anyone else in the room knocked once came through the door and approached her and then pulled down her pajamas and underwear.' '[He] came in and pulled down her pajamas and underwear to stare at [and] touch her private parts.’ 'Maya suppressed this until about four weeks ago, [but] she did put in some notes to both the psychiatrist there at the time Dr. Katzenstein and later to Dr. Henschke, the two female psychiatrists that she saw along the way.'"
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STORY: "Netflix's Maya Kowalski files criminal complaint that she was 'sexually abused at Johns Hopkins All Children's hospital' - as she wins bombshell $261 million lawsuit against Florida facility, " by Senior Reporter Aneeta Bhole, published by The Daily Mail, on November 11, 2023. (Aneeta Bhole is a Sydney based Journalist who is currently working for the Birmingham Mail and holds a position with Mail Online and Daily Mail Australia. She is currently based in the United Kingdom and has previous experience in reporting, broadcast journalism and photography.)
KEY POINTS: "Maya Kowalski has filed a criminal complaint claiming she was 'sexually abused at Johns Hopkins All Children's hospital.’ It claims Maya was 'sexually battered by a man who appeared to be a doctor’. The suit comes after Maya Kowalski was awarded more than $261M this week
GIST: Netflix's Maya Kowalski has filed a criminal complaint claiming she was 'sexually abused at Johns Hopkins All Children's hospital' after winning a landmark lawsuit against the Florida facility for more than $261 million in damages.
Jurors this week ruled in favor of the teen, whose story is the subject of the bombshell Netflix documentary 'Take Care of Maya,' and found that the JHACH had falsely imprisoned her - leading to the suicide of her mother Beata Kowalski in 2017 after she was banned from visiting.
The hospital has vehemently denied the allegations and is seeking to appeal the verdict after six jurors took close to three days to pore over mountains of evidence.
Speaking to DailyMail.com exclusively, the family's attorney, Greg Anderson, has now revealed that Maya filed a criminal complaint with Pinellas County Sheriff's Office on Friday.'Maya Kowalski filed criminal charges this morning with the Pinellas County Sheriff's Department involving an assault and battery at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in the period of approximately October 8 - 13 of 2016,' Anderson said.
'It's unclear who the assailant was although my client was able to identify him with great specificity in terms of height, weight, hair color, clothing - he did have a lab coat on, he did have a stethoscope around his shoulders.
'Although we can't make a positive ID on whether it was an employee or someone who gained access to the intensive care unit and entry into her room we are alleging in the alternative a physician or a person appearing to be a physician whether that be another level of employee or somebody who shouldn't have been there intruded.’
Anderson said after the years-long hardship, pain and suffering endured from the case this was yet another blow to the family who have already endured so much.
'Ms Kowalski was there under false imprisonment by Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital as determined yesterday by a jury,' he explained.
'During that first period of time of her imprisonment there in October a man entered the room appeared to be a physician without a chaperone or any female or anyone else in the room knocked once came through the door and approached her and then pulled down her pajamas and underwear.'
'[He] came in and pulled down her pajamas and underwear to stare at [and] touch her private parts.’
'Maya suppressed this until about four weeks ago, [but] she did put in some notes to both the psychiatrist there at the time Dr. Katzenstein and later to Dr. Henschke, the two female psychiatrists that she saw along the way.'
Anderson has revealed a slew of evidence and testimony to back the claim alleging that Maya had revealed the assault to 'a boy back when she was 13.'
The hospital's attorney Ethan Shapiro said the allegations came to light through the trial and JHACH is investigating.
'As soon as the hospital became aware of the allegations, and in accordance with their policies, they immediately initiated an internal investigation and contacted law enforcement last month,' he said.
'Federal privacy laws restrict Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital from sharing more, but the hospital takes allegations of this nature very seriously and always puts the safety of their patients above all else.'
After eight weeks of testimony from experts, the Kowalski family and hospital staff jurors deliberated before deciding to award the family $211,451,174 in compensatory damages.
They also awarded an additional $50 million in punitive damages for false imprisonment and false imprisonment with battery totaling the amount to more than $261 million.
In a post to her story on Instagram, Maya uploaded a picture of herself smiling in court on Thursday after bursting into tears following the blockbuster trial.
'We are feeling so blessed! I will forever be grateful,' she wrote online.
The entire story can be read at:
Netflix-Maya-Kowalski-Johns-Hopkins-Childrens-hospital-sexual-abuse.html
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this case/issue/resource. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith. Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at: http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com. Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog;
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https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/120008354894645705/47049136857587929
FINAL WORD: (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases): "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices.
Lawyer Radha Natarajan;
Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;
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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions. They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!
Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;
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YET ANOTHER FINAL WORD:
David Hammond, one of Broadwater’s attorneys who sought his exoneration, told the Syracuse Post-Standard, “Sprinkle some junk science onto a faulty identification, and it’s the perfect recipe for a wrongful conviction.”
https://deadline.com/2021/11/alice-sebold-lucky-rape-conviction-overturned-anthony-broadwater-123488014\
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