psychiatric and sexual abuse in Kansas, feel free to forward
Brittany
are being frauded by theses psycho Doctors/etc every single day.
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Reuters - 4 Oct. 2005
Kansas couple on trial for enslaving mentally ill
By Carey Gillam
KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Reuters) - A Kansas husband and wife who ran a
psychotherapy practice went on trial on Tuesday on charges that they
kept mentally ill people as slaves, forced them to perform sex acts
on
videotape and then billed Medicare nearly $1 million for
the "therapy."
Prosecutors charged that Arlan Kaufman, 68, and his wife Linda
Kaufman,
62, spent 18 years taking advantage of patients entrusted to their
care. The couple ran a residential care facility in Newton, Kansas,
where they worked with at least 20 mentally ill individuals from 1980
until 2004.
Jury selection began Tuesday for an expected five-week trial in U.S.
District Court in Wichita.
Authorities are seeking to prove that while the couple was billing
relatives and insurers for therapy, rent, utilities and food, they
were
forcing the residents to engage in hard manual labor in the nude on a
farm the couple owned outside of town.
Prosecutors charged the residents were also forced to engage in a
variety of sexually explicit acts, including masturbating, fondling
each other and shaving each other's genitals, much of which was
videotaped.
Patients were physically injured or restrained if they resisted,
authorities charged.
Prosecutors have filed 33 criminal counts against the Kaufmans
including charges of forced labor, involuntary servitude, health care
fraud, mail fraud and obstruction of a federal audit.
The Kaufmans submitted just under $1 million in claims to Medicare
from
1991 through 2000 and were paid $216,906, authorities said.
Defense attorneys for the Kaufmans declined to comment. The couple
faces more than 200 years in prison if convicted of all the charges.
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