Beata Kowalski ended her life after she was accused of Munchausen by proxy. Now, her family's story is the subject of a Netflix documentary.
Beata, a registered nurse, documented her daughter’s condition, exhaustively tracking the progress and the pitfalls in notebooks, via voice and video recordings and photographs—all of which play a pivotal, painful role in the documentary.
“Beata was extremely knowledgeable in the medical field and knew to document everything she experienced, but we will never know if she anticipated how big this battle would become and if those notes would one day be so helpful,” Keating told Jezebel. “I’m not sure that we would have a film today without all of the documentation.
The state order filled Beata and Jack’s relationship with distrust, disagreement, and ultimately, resentment, as seen in the film. Beata was unbending in her dealings with the hospital and CPS; Jack adopted a more relaxed approach in the hopes that it would prove more successful in getting their daughter back sooner. Some fights that disrupted the Kowalski home are shown—or, heard—in full, thanks to Beata’s own archive.A card Maya made for her mother while hospitalized in state custody.
“Do you think if she had hugged her, things would turn out differently?” one of the Kowalski family’s attorneys is asked at one point in the documentary. “Yes. Yes, I do,” the lawyer answers without hesitation.After 87 days of forced separation from her daughter, Beata ended her life at home, at the age 43. “I’m sorry,” she wrote in an email found following her passing. “But I no longer can take the pain being away from Maya and being treated like a criminal.
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