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Posted: 2023-11-10T02:21:48Z | Updated: 2023-11-10T19:56:53Z

A Florida jury ordered Johns Hopkins All Childrens Hospital on Thursday to pay more than $261 million to the subject of Netflixs Take Care of Maya documentary, whose family claimed in a $225 million medical malpractice suit that the hospitals drastic actions had led to her mothers suicide.

The six-person jury deliberated two days before finding the medical center in St. Petersburg, Florida, liable for all seven claims by Maya Kowalskis family, including false imprisonment, battery, negligence, initial infliction of emotional distress and intentional inflection of emotional distress causing death. Mayas mother, Beata Kowalski, killed herself after Maya was kept from seeing her in the hospital, was removed from her care by the state and was involuntarily hospitalized for three months in 2016 and 2017.