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Family Accused of Child Abuse After Seeking Unconventional Medical Treatment for Daughter

  • A Netflix documentary follows a family falsely charged with child abuse after they chose an experimental ketamine treatment for their chronically ill daughter in Mexico.
  • When the girl's condition worsened, doctors at Johns Hopkins reported the family to child services, accusing the mother of Munchausen's syndrome by proxy though there was no evidence to support this.
  • Child services took the girl into custody, preventing her family from seeing her for months and inflicting severe trauma.
  • The family is now suing the hospital for the damage caused, but the mother tragically committed suicide, unable to bear the suffering of losing her child.
  • The film argues that families seeking alternative treatments for mysterious medical conditions are too easily targeted and highlights the need for reform in child services and hospital complaint procedures.
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