PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Mental health patients are often isolated from family and friends as they get treatment. Advocates say what happens behind closed doors is largely unknown except between staff and patients.

Aimee Sansone said she is living with that trauma every day after she alleges she was raped at Fairmount Behavioral Health in August 2019. Sansone said she was admitted to the Philadelphia facility after a failed suicide attempt.

“I’d taken pills, I was broken,” she said.

According to Sansone, she was transferred to Fairmount from a local hospital.

“I was already broken when I went there and now I’ve left like so damaged,” she said.

When Sansone arrived, she says she was placed in a mixed-sex wing that treats mostly drug addicts. She had been admitted before and was not put in a women’s trauma unit like in the past. The next day she said an uncomfortable feeling