I was falsely accused of forcing my daughter into 500 medical procedures – I almost lost custody, now I’m suing for $3m

A MOTHER says she was falsely accused of subjecting her daughter to hundreds of medical procedures, resulting her in losing custody - now she's suing the hospital.

Sophie Hartman, 31, said she's spent millions fighting in court to regain custody of her daughter.

In the meantime, she said she received death threats after being accused of child abuse by doctors at Seattle Children's Hospital.

Hartman said she was called a liar and an attention seeker for putting her six-year-old adopted daughter through nearly 500 medical treatments.

However, Hartman says she was seeking treatment for her daughter's Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood (AHC).

However, several doctors from the hospital don't believe Hartman is a worried mother but rather a child abuser who put the young girl through unnecessary treatment.

Hartman was charged with assault of a child in the second degree and attempted assault in 2021 over these allegations.

However, officials with the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office say there wasn't enough evidence for a felony case and the charges were dropped to district court and eventually dismissed.

Now, the mother and her legal team are targeting those who made her out to be the bad guy in a new court filing.

The lawsuit names employees of the Department of Children, Youth, and Families, the Renton Police Department, the Washington Court Appointed Special Advocate Association, and Seattle's Children's Hospital.

The filing states that Hartman's daughter's condition is "very real."

AHC is a rare disease that causes recurrent attacks of loss of muscular tone, which results in hypomobility on one side of the body, according to the National Institute of Health.

The girl's condition was diagnosed by Mohamad A. Mikati, a doctor at the Duke University Health System, according to the lawsuit.

This happened well before the Seattle Children's Hospital got involved.

Hartman's lawsuit alleges that doctors at the children's hospital didn't agree with the diagnosis and worked together to create an abuse case against her.

"Numerous defendants contorted facts, manipulated and hid evidence, and outright lied, using extensive funds supplied by the State, the family’s very own medical insurance, and federal government funds to try to destroy the Hartman family," the lawsuit alleged.

"This led to the taking of the children in a police raid, the charging of Sophie criminally in a maximally humiliating way, various strangers rifling through Sophie’s private prayer journals and every personal confidence to sift devious motives from a loving mother’s agony at trying to help her suffering child, and extensive other Orwellian intrusions."

The Seattle Children's Hospital stated the lawsuit.

"Seattle Children’s takes our responsibility to protect the health and safety of our patients seriously, but we cannot comment on this specific case due to pending litigation," the hospital said in a statement.

The Renton Police Department said it can't comment on a pending lawsuit but also provided a statement.

"We were recently notified of the pending litigation and are reviewing it with our attorneys. I firmly stand behind our officers, detectives, and the integrity of the investigation," said Chief Jon Schuldt.