The Nevada family who was featured in the popular Netflix documentary 'Take Care of Maya' filed a civil lawsuit against Dell Children's Medical Center in U.S. District Court last week.
This comes seven months after after a jury found that Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital was liable for charges including medical negligence and false imprisonment.
, child protective services took away their son and daughter, after their youngest son JJ was misdiagnosed with shaken baby syndrome. Jason faced two felony charges of child abuse, which are now dropped, and the children were placed in foster care for five months. Medical documents later show JJ actually had a birth injury and benign external hydrocephalus. Lorina and Jason were exonerated of any wrongdoing and a Texas court ordered the children to be returned home. Still, Jason had to leave his job and the family sold their house to pay for legal representation. The Troys later moved to Reno while they worked on a case with their attorneys.
"Stephanie, and I wouldn't take the case, if it wasn't important," said Aaron Rapier, one of the family's attorneys. "We wouldn't take the case if it wasn't for a loving, innocent family. And frankly, we wouldn't take the case, if we didn't think we could not only help that family, but also changed the world."
News 4 reached out to Dell Children's Medical Center. The hospital says they haven't been served the complaint yet, but the medical center shared a statement with News 4:
We have not been served with this complaint, and therefore cannot speak to it. At Dell Children’s Medical Center, our highest priority is the safety and health of children in our community. As a healthcare provider in Texas, our doctors, nurses and care teams who have reasonable cause to believe that a child has been affected by abuse or neglect by any person must immediately report this to the appropriate authorities as required by law. We have a duty to work with authorities during their investigation as they make their decision on what is in the best interest of the child.
Attorney for the Troys, Stephanie Proffitt, says the family's case is receiving a lot of attention.
“I'm getting emails daily. I'm getting phone calls from people across the Houston area primarily, but also across the state saying, hey, that same thing happened to me. How do I how do I, you know, do something like this? What do I need to do? It's extremely unfortunate. And, like I said earlier, CPS targets the the disadvantaged the people with no money to fight back."
You can read the Troy's civil complaint here:
This is a developing story.