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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the PP whose DD has CRPS.  I can't get this documentary out of my mind. Frankly, I regret watching it.

Here is an article about Dr. Smith and some other families she accused of abuse:

[url]https://stories.usatodaynetwork.com/torn-apart/sally-smith/[/url]

The link below has another story with more information about the events when Maya was hospitalized. It helps me understand why Beata was so upset about being reported to the Nursing Board, as her shifts were paying for all of Maya's treatments, which weren't covered by insurance. The stress of trying to find answers, exploring and funding treatments, and supporting her suffering child was already overwhelming without the abuse investigation to deal with.

[url]https://www.thecut.com/article/child-abuse-munchausen-syndrome-by-proxy.html[/url]

I wish the documentarian would have devoted more time to the issue of retaining a private company to perform these abuse investigations. Perhaps that's a separate story, but it is one that needs to be explored with a critical eye.[/quote]

Omg that article in The Cut is horrifying. I haven't watched the documentary and don't think I can handle it. That is such a nightmare situation.

No oversight. This part stood out to me:
"At All Children’s, Smith wore an ID badge bearing the hospital’s logo and, during the pandemic, sometimes sported a white lab coat. Families often assumed that she was a doctor on staff and that what they told her was protected by doctor-patient confidentiality. In reality, she didn’t work for All Children’s, and her primary employer was not the state. Florida privatized its child-welfare system in 2004, and the work in Pinellas County is outsourced to a company called Suncoast Center Inc. Smith was one of its 117 employees. Suncoast and similar entities across the state are funded by more than $3 billion of public money, yet there is little oversight of how effective they are in stopping child abuse — or of how often they allege wrongdoing where none exists. In Pinellas County, children are almost two and a half times more likely to be removed from their families than the state average."

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