Betty Sembler is the wife of the founder (and I think a co-founder herself) of Straight Inc., one of the most abusive "rehabs" ever inflicted on kids.
In *every* state in which they operated,there were allegations of abuse-- almost all of them later discovered to be accurate. They battled regulators and prosecutors in every state in which they opened.
They used sleep deprivation, food deprivation, restraints done by other clients in which the person would be thrown to the floor with one person holding each limb and another covering the mouth and restricting breathing, force-feeding and attack therapy and were consistently convicted of holding clients against their will when they were over age.
Kids of North Jersey was run under same set up by their former clinical director, Miller Newton-- he and the so-called doctors who helped him run the scam recently had to pay out $6.4 million to a girl who was held there for over 12 years and had never touched a drug in her life. Prior to that, he had to pay $4.5 mil to a girl who had bipolar disorder which unsurprisingly got worse due to their "treatment."
