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A heads up, the today's episode includes detailed descriptions of suicide. So if that's not

for you today, we'll see you next time.

Biotta Kowalski's tragic death by suicide in January of 2010 has played a huge role in how the

Kowalski's lawsuit against Johns Hopkins All Children's has played out. In court, the blame ultimately

went to Johns Hopkins as they are being asked to compensate the family for Biazza's death to the tune of

many millions of dollars.

This death was presented in the plaintiff's story as the ultimate act of motherly love, a heroic sacrifice to save her daughter.

Here is lead attorney Gregory Anderson in his closing arguments.

What else have they tried to say?

What are there other defenses?

Well, they blame Biazza for taking her own life.

And although we'll get into a lot of this more, the fact is that Biazza was reacting to a

maternal instinct that she had almost no, and in fact, no ability to control.

It was the same thing as a mother jumping out in front of a truck to push her two-year-old out of the way,

knowing that it would take her life. And when there's a competition between the maternal instinct and the self-preservation instinct,

the maternal instinct is going to win each time.

And in the film, Take Care of Maya, they draw a straight line between the judge not allowing

Bia to hug Maya in court during that final hearing to Biaa's death two days later.

It never made any sense to me why she was denied giving her child that hug.

And I can tell you as we left the courthouse that day, that Biata was devastated, devastated.

And the one thing that I know to this day is none of us can get that hug back now.

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