A parent of a "child in need" donated monies to start a program in his area of New Jersey.  Newton chose Bergen County (one of the most affluent areas within the United States) for his resting grounds.  He acquired an empty warehouse in Hackensack, NJ through the owner of the neighboring company building (Timeplex).  He made a few offices, a few intake rooms, a small infirmary (nurse's office), some bathrooms, some staff offices, and a few group rooms.  The main was a large, empty room with cold, hard, tile floors, and high ceilings with florescent lighting.

  Starting out with a small amount of kids and later growing to a group of over 175 at a time.  Some from the area, some from California, some from Texas.  He opened KIDS of Southern California, and KIDS of El Paso in 1986.  Then in 1989, he opened KIDS of Greater Salt Lake. 

A few times during these years, TV shows and investigators inquired about the program and some were permitted to enter the building, ask questions, and film.  Nobody was permitted to speak with the reporters except the graduates.  Also during these years (88-90) some states were investigating their programs in California, Utah, and El Paso.  The California Program and El Paso program shut their doors in 1989.  Kids started coming to NJ from all over.  A few months after that, Salt Lake closed it's doors.  All these programs under investigation of insurance fraud, physical abuse and cruelty.  In spite of all the investigations and inquiries, the NJ program stayed open.  About a year after an airing of "West 57th St.", Bergen County Prosecutors went in and pulled people out who were over 18 and asked them if they wanted to leave.  Some did, some did not.  The prosecutors repeated this action a few months later.

Shortly after this investigation, Newton shut down the premises at 80 Commerce Way in Hackensack, and began what they called "Satellite Homes" where 7-20 or more kids and staff would meet and have group sessions while he was looking at other buildings.  He was also seen by a former parent to be holding open meetings in a church in River Edge, NJ.  He relocated to Secaucus, NJ to an empty building (a warehouse in Hudson County).  Shortly before the move, he changed the name from KIDS of Bergen County, to KIDS of North Jersey.  Secaucus is an industrial town in NJ with mostly minorities.  He could get Medicaid funding there.  NJ gave Newton a "special" certificate to operate from the Commissioner of Health and Human Services (Len Fisher).

NJ heard of this program being a "controversial" program and proceeded to have state officials check it out.  They found NUMEROUS counts of insurance fraud and many major insurance companies had already stopped funding.  Families were putting third mortgages on their homes to keep their children in his "care".  NJ proceeded with a Medicaid investigation which in 1999 was Newtons demise.  During this time, Rebecca Ehrlich was in the process of suing Newton and his team of psychologists for $4.5 million.  She won that suit.  Her attorney is Phil Elberg.

Newton now resides in Madeira Beach, FL (a city already aware of his controversy) where he has converted and been ordained a priest by the Antiochian Orthodox Church.  His pastoral name is Fr. Cassian Newton.  He attempted counseling children in FL and the state refused to give him a license because of his past.  They said the only way he could council would be to work UNDER someone or religiously.