Take Care Of Maya Teen Caught Partying After Attorneys Said She Was In Too Much Pain For Court

Maya Kowalski was pictured socializing over the weekend. Sarasota County Clerk

Maya Kowalski was caught hanging out with friends shortly after her lawyers said she was too unwell to attend her $220 million malpractice trial against a Florida hospital.

Last Friday, her attorney mentioned that Maya's nerve disorder, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), had worsened due to courtroom stress.

This severe pain prevented her from being at the trial for a few days, making folks wonder about her health and its effect on the trial.

"It's been horrible," lawyer Gregory Anderson said, according to Court TV. "Maya has CRPS lesions reappearing. It's not good."

But Johns Hopkins All Medical Center lawyers said in court Tuesday that Kowalski was well enough to hit the town with several girlfriends — and they had the social media pictures to prove it.

In the well-known Netflix documentary "Take Care of Maya," Maya's mother confessed to admitting her 10-year-old daughter to the hospital in 2015.

She told doctors that Maya needed risky ketamine treatments to relieve her symptoms.

Staff members, unsure about Beata Kowalski's unusual requests, notified Florida's child welfare authorities.

Lawyers argued that the shots contradicted her claims of intense pain. Sarasota County Clerk

As a result, Maya was taken into the state's custody for medical care. During this time, Beata was prohibited from seeing her daughter for 85 days and faced allegations of child abuse.

Tragically, Beata Kowalski took her own life in the family home's garage.

The Kowalski family is taking legal action against the hospital, claiming that Maya's admission and separation from her mother were unjust.

They are suing the facility for a substantial $220 million. Maya Kowalski, in her testimony, has stated that she continues to grapple with the lingering effects of her illness, and she has accused hospital staff of ignoring her concerns during her stay.

Kowalski was featured in the Netflix documentary “Take Care of Maya.” USA TODAY NETWORK

However, hospital attorney Ethen Shapiro, citing the social media images from the recent weekend, argued that Maya seemed to be in good health, adding another layer of complexity to the legal dispute.

"This is the life of Maya Kowalski today," Shapiro told the judge. "We did not aggravate a pre-existing condition.

She's at her prom, she's out in heels, has friends — it's in complete contradiction to her testimony."

Kowalski's legal team contested the admissibility of the photos, but the judge overseeing the case decided to permit several of them as evidence.

Now, it's in the hands of the jurors to determine whether Kowalski's doctors were unjust in dismissing her mother's proposed treatments or if they had legitimate concerns about the well-being of the child.

Beata Kowalski committed suicide three months after being barred from seeing Maya. Courtesy of Netflix

The hospital staff had suspicions that Beata might be suffering from Munchausen by Proxy syndrome, a condition where caregivers fabricate or exaggerate a child's illnesses for attention.

Maya's father, Jack Kowalski, is making allegations of false imprisonment, medical malpractice, and infliction of emotional distress in the legal proceedings.

Notably, Beata Kowalski had supported the idea of putting Maya in a ketamine-induced coma at a clinic in Mexico, claiming that these treatments had brought relief to her daughter.

In a twist during the trial, a doctor who had previously prescribed ketamine treatments for Maya testified that this approach was medically sound.

However, this week, Dr. Elliott Krane, an emeritus professor of anesthesiology and chief of pain management at Stanford School of Medicine, testified on behalf of the defense.

He argued that the ketamine regimen was perilous and not permitted in the United States.

The trial is still ongoing, with more developments to come.