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I watched this in horror, through the eyes of a mother for the first 3/4 of the movie. But then something shifted and I thought “wait a second…what if…”
And once I started trying to view it through a “maybe the mom really does have Munchausn by Proxy?…” then everything started to look a bit different. Husband and daughter both seem double-traumatized and it’s almost as if mom is still controlling the narrative by her act of suicide. They can’t bear to cast her in a negative light in this bc of their grief. They really have no choice but to blame the hospital.
And if you view it through the lens of the hospital workers who suspected that the mom’s psychosis was directing all this, then you may see how they would feel “vindicated” somehow at the news of her taking her own life. They aren’t sad or empathetic…but that is because they literally believed that this is evidence of her being unstable, narcissistic, and that if not for their intervention, she would have “continued” to harm Maya—and now she can’t do that anymore. So that’s a good thing and makes them feel like they “saved” Maya. (Plus, they probably refer to her as “ketamine girl” in texts bc of HIPAA—not bc they don’t know or recall her name)

The whole thing is tragic.

But I also agree with the poster who said that the attorneys will argue that the hospital did nothing wrong here. They are mandatory reporters who referred a case to CPS. And then they followed the directives of the court that made its ruling based on the CPS investigation. To NOT follow these directives would have made the hospital liable for anything that happened to Maya at the hands of her mother, whom CPS labeled a danger.
IMO, The problem rests entirely with the whole CPS privatization issue, and the God-complex that this particular social worker seems to have in performing her role. In her defense, she’s probably seen some horrific cases of abuse that makes her feel justified when a few other unwarranted cases get caught up in the system. (In fact, she basically said just that when she wrote back to that one mom who sends her a Christmas card every year).
But they settled with her.
So I can’t imagine they have much of an actual case.

I feel so bad for the family. But by the end of the documentary I just couldn’t shake that their sadness/grief at loss of mom/ Beata is simply not allowing them to do anything other than blame the hospital and CPS social worker.  [/quote]

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