Her plea for help reached the 911 dispatcher before the abuser could stop her.
The husband and father who turned his home into a crime scene is psychiatrist Alexander Wills. For terrorizing his wife and children that night, Wills was arrested. On May 1 of this year, he was sentenced by an Idaho magistrate to over two months in custody at the Ada County Jail and two years of supervised probation.
His wife wasn’t the only woman Wills endangered. On August 29, 2025, months before he was due to face trial for the abuse of his family, the owner of PERMA Mental Health & Ketamine Clinic allegedly raped a former patient in a hotel room.
Up to 10 percent of psychiatrists and psychologists freely admit to sexually abusing patients, including children as young as 3 years old.
The assault began, prosecutors say, when the former patient reached out to Wills for help, texting him questions about her mental health. He phoned her back and told her that, under the circumstances, she shouldn’t be alone.
He then picked her up and took her to the Red Lion Hotel in downtown Boise, where she reported seeing hundreds of pills scattered across the room, open Bibles on the floor and numerous cans of alcohol.
When she rejected his advances, Wills called her “Satan” and forced himself on her.
Wills was arrested on a felony charge of forcible penetration by use of a foreign object. Released on bail, he cut off his ankle monitor and fled Idaho before police caught him in Santa Clarita, California. He is set to stand trial on the rape charge next month. If convicted, he faces the possibility of life in prison.
Wills’ victim didn’t meet him in a bar, on the street or through a chance encounter. She came to him as a patient, seeking help with her mental health.
“PERMA Mental Health & Ketamine Clinic offers a unique, integrative approach to mental health care,” reads the online description of Dr. Wills’ practice.
But how “unique” is an approach marked by violence, coercion and abuse in the world of psychiatry?
A white paper by the mental health watchdog Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) reports that nearly half of psychiatric inpatients were victims of sexual violence while held in institutions.
Up to 10 percent of psychiatrists and psychologists freely admit to sexually abusing patients, including children as young as 3 years old.
The record bears it out. Set foot in a psychiatric office, ward or institution, and there’s a good chance you’ll become a victim of abuse—as the teenage girls routinely abused and raped at the Mingus Mountain facility in Arizona can attest. Or the 47 young women who, when not being personally assaulted, were forced to strip or beat each other up for the amusement of the staff at Vista Maria in Michigan.
The industry knows. The courts know. The checks get written. Nothing changes. Acadia Healthcare alone has spent more than half a billion dollars on fraud and sexual abuse claims. But the culture of abuse remains intact.
All told, 1.1 million human beings have died in psychiatric hospitals since 1965. That’s more than twice the number of American soldiers killed in every US war combined.
What sort of person would join a profession built on violence, rape and death?
A wife-beater, bail jumper and rapist. Someone like Alexander Wills.
Police warn there may be more victims.
They don’t know how right they are.
