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Kansas couple convicted of abusing mentally ill
08 Nov 2005 02:32:04 GMT

Source: Reuters

KANSAS CITY, Kan., Nov 7 (Reuters) - A Kansas couple who ran a psychotherapy practice were convicted on Monday of holding mentally ill people as slaves and forcing them to perform sex acts on videotape while billing Medicare nearly $1 million for therapy.

Arlan Kaufman, 69, was convicted of 33 criminal counts, including charges of forced labor, involuntary servitude, health care fraud, mail fraud and obstruction of a federal audit.

His wife, Linda Kaufman, 62, was found guilty of all charges with the exception of one charge of making a false writing.

The judge in the case ordered their bonds revoked and remanded them to jail.

During the trial in the U.S. District Court in Wichita, prosecutors said the Kaufmans billed relatives and insurers for therapy, rent, utilities and food for patients who were forced to engage in manual labor in the nude on a farm the couple owned and to pose for videotapes in a variety of sexual acts.

Patients were physically injured or restrained if they resisted, authorities charged.

Authorities said the abuse began in 1985 and involved at least 14 mentally ill people.

The Kaufmans submitted almost $1 million in claims to Medicare from 1991 through 2000 and were paid $216,906, authorities said. The couple face more than 200 years in prison. No date has yet been set for sentencing.
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sigh...death penalty doesn't apply...damn
 
SouthernN'Proud said:
Off with their heads.
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well yes, but lets start with other appendages...slowly

(I am not AGAINST torture, just against goverments lying about it)
 
Wonder where the patient's families were during all this.

/me is hoping that these two get placed into forced-labour jails.
 
I heard on the news that they would have never been caught had it not been for a random audit from Medicare officials.
 
Bobby Hogg said:
Out of sight, out of mind.
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Don't fall over or anything, BUT you are so right in what you say. I work in this field myself and it is a shame that most of these individuals have family living in the same town and have nothing to do with them.
 
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