With a new focus on human trafficking, and with the U.S. government now wanting facial scans of all children to “protect” them, it’s important to realize legal medical kidnapping is happening everyday.
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Review: Take Care of Maya (June, 2023)
When 10-year-old Maya Kowalski was admitted to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in 2016, nothing could have prepared her or her family for what they were about to go through. As the medical team tried to understand her rare illness, Dr. Sally Smith, the medical director of the child protection team in Pinellas County, Florida walked into the room and interviewed Maya and the parents for 10 minutes.
Suddenly, Maya was in state custody based on a 10 minute interview
Maya has Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), but it could just as very well have been Lyme/MSIDS. Both are misunderstood conditions that are severely disabling.
Similarly to parents with Lyme/MSIDS infected children, Maya’s mother, Beata, who just happened to be a nurse, was accused of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy and Maya was removed from her family for 3 months until the court cleared Beata of any mental illness. Sadly, Beata committed suicide 87 days after she had been separated from her daughter. Five days after this, Maya was released into her father’s custody.
There have also been other controversies surrounding Smith, including petitions to have her fired and complaints about how she conducts her assessments.
An article on Black Enterprise in 2021 would detail cases of Smith wrongfully accusing parents of abuse and following up on hundreds of cases where parents would be innocent of allegations and traumatized by her interventions. The USA Today Network reportedly investigated hundreds of Dr. Smith’s cases, and:
found more than a dozen instances where charges were dropped, parents were acquitted or caregivers had credible claims of innocence yet suffered irredeemable damage to their lives and reputations. Source
Yet in the court case after the incident, Smith was not held accountable for anything.
Recent news reports state Smith has retired, but she is still listed on the medical staff of Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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What Happens When Florida Child Abuse Pediatricians Get It Wrong?
Florida families around the state are speaking out about being wrongly accused of child abuse by experts hired by the state to identify abuse.
If you live in Florida and have been a victim of medical kidnapping, the Torn Apart editors are collecting stories to potentially cover during their investigative series.
Producer of “Take Care of Maya”, Caitlin Keating and director Henry Roosevelt, were interviewed by The Wrap where they stated that they hear from other families with similar medical kidnapping stories as the Kowalskis, every single day.
It appears that this corrupt, criminal enterprise known as “child abuse pediatric doctors” is not confined to Florida. The specialty which began around 2010 consists of doctors who are not even practicing medicine but are acting as forensic criminal investigators with ZERO training in law enforcement or forensic evidence. They are given far too much power for one person that has destroyed families. According to this, tens of thousands of innocent parents have been falsely accused of abuse. You can now receive a free book on the subject to educate yourself and others you know.
And it’s happened right here in Wisconsin .
Dr. Barbara Knox, considered a national expert on child abuse who testifies as an expert for prosecutors around the country and who has worked with the FBI, was put on paid leave by The University of Wisconsin after colleagues inside and outside of the hospital accused her of intimidation and retaliation. She also pressured colleagues to report injuries they did not see and left a wake of falsely accused parents, ripped apart families, ruined careers, and incarcerated parents.
A settlement agreement shielded details of her exit from future employers. The hospital gave her $20,000, and the agreement required them to send the Alaska medical board a scripted letter that said her administrative leave “did not relate to dishonesty, clinical skills, medical diagnostic abilities, or incorrect medical diagnoses,” and “no disciplinary action” was taken against her.
She then became the medical director at Alaska Cares in Anchorage.
As of November, 2021, Knox’s devastation continued causing a mass exodus at Alaska CARES, due to accusations against Dr. Knox of bullying, misdiagnosing, and causing a toxic work environment. According to two people with direct knowledge of clinic operations, Knox was placed on leave pending an investigation but Providence declined to confirm Knox’s employment status. Wisconsin Watch later followed up with this article stating Knox “has chosen to pursue other opportunities and will be resigning,” as of April 1, 2022.
The article also mentioned that one parent spent eight years and $250,000 to clear her name after being wrongly charged by Knox with abusing a boy at her home day care in Mauston, WI.
The article also aptly states that Knox’s resignation does not solve the problems she created.
Who gives back those portions of people’s lives that she took and how many others are falsely accused?
Please learn about this topic as Lyme/MSIDS is greatly under appreciated and controversial.
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