The Troubled Teen Who Wasn't. The Unbelievable Case of Lulu Corter vs. Kids of North Jersey

Roberta Glass True Crime Report

Roberta Glass

True Crime

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🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

My guest, civil attorney Phil Elberg believes to understand what happened at the troubled teens program Kids of North Jersey, you have to understand it was a cult. Its founder and director, Miller Newton "a real deal cult leader". Elberg should know as he spent a large portion of his career fighting and winning multimillion dollar judgements for those harmed in Kids of North Jersey. How did it he do it? He just told his client's story and never used the word cult.
The most famous of Elberg's cases is the Lulu Corter case. Corter was admitted into the program at age thirteen despite having no behavior, drug or alcohol problems. She escaped out of the program at age twenty six. Corter intially contacted Elberg to ask him where she should tell her story. She ended up telling her story on the witness stand in court. The case was settled for 6.5 million dollars.
Elberg joins Roberta to discuss the Corter case, Miller Newton and why telling his client's story was the secret to his success.
The Roberta Glass True Crime Report is produced by Ati Abdo MacDonald

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Roberta Glass True Crime Report, putting the true back in true crime.
0:26.1	From New York City, Roberta Glass is now on the record.
0:43.3	My guest, Phil Elberg is a a happily retired civil attorney, a graduate of Brooklyn College and Rutgers University Law School. He spent a large portion of his career, biting and winning
0:50.3	judgments in total six million plus for those harmed in the troubled teen program kids.
0:58.6	The most famous being the Lulu Quarter case, and that's the topic of today's episode.
1:06.1	Quarter was admitted into Kids program at age 13, despite never having had a drink or a drug.
1:15.0	She escaped out 13 years later, but during her time at kids, she endured, being restrained
1:24.2	by the staff to the floor, humiliated and insulted during endless encounter therapy
1:32.6	sessions known as rap sessions, and she was cut off from all unsupervised communication with her
1:40.3	family. But worst of all, she was denied in education. It is a case my guest,
1:49.0	Phil Elberg, calls so unbelievable if it weren't true, no one would believe it. It is my great
1:57.4	honor and privilege to introduce Bill Elberg.
2:02.1	So how did kids advertise itself and what was the reality?
2:07.1	Kids arises, I guess, in the context of the tough love world and the tough love movement,
2:13.3	which was actually sort of a formal movement then that arose at the same time as the just-say-no drug movement.
2:20.8	It was really, you know, those things were always happening at the same time.
2:25.3	And so Miller Newton came to New Jersey from Florida,
2:29.2	where he had been the person that was running this thing called Straight Incorporated.
2:33.5	And I don't know how he got his first
2:35.3	few kids into the program. But I think he started speaking at local schools and he started,
2:42.3	he had the support of some politicians. There was some money behind him, some newspaper articles
2:48.0	that I managed to get from the time when he first got started. And he got a few
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