Owner Of Group Home For Mentally Ill Gets 30 Years For Enslaving Patients

[The Straight Story]

Owner Of Group Home For Mentally Ill Gets 30 Years For Enslaving Patients

POSTED: 1:31 pm EST January 24, 2006

WICHITA, Kan -- A therapist who ran a group home for the mentally ill was sentenced to 30 years in prison for enslaving its residents, forcing them to work naked and making them perform sex acts. His wife received seven years behind bars.

Arlan Kaufman, 69, and his wife, Linda, were convicted in November on charges that included health care fraud, forced labor and involuntary servitude.

"You are an arrogant individual. You don't recognize what you have done is wrong," U.S. District Judge Monti Belot told Arlan Kaufman on Monday. "You see yourself as a victim of some massive conspiracy."

Prosecutors contended the Kaufmans controlled the lives of their residents, including deciding who could wear clothes and forcing them to masturbate, fondle each other and shave each other's genitals -- activities Arlan Kaufman videotaped.

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[Up2Late]

1. Wow, that's one sick individual

Sounds like he'll have a few "dance partners" in Prison.

[Ian David]

2. Mentally ill have hard time finding housing

Mentally ill have hard time finding housing
The number of people with mental illness far outstrips the supply of safe, affordable, suitable living arrangements.

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More:
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/local/13522154.htm

[Ian David]

3. T. Rex's Guide to Life: Religion: Bad Religion: Violence

T. Rex's Guide to Life: Religion: Bad Religion: Violence

http://quinnell.us/religion/bad/violence.html

10.3.05 - Wichita, Kansas - In 1998, no one in Kansas billed Medicare more for group psychotherapy than Arlan Kaufman. Yet Kaufman, a licensed social worker, billed for only nine patients in two residential homes that he and his wife, Linda, ran in Newton. The provider who trailed Kaufman in Medicare billing had 52 patients. That caught the attention of Ryan Filson and Dan Coney, special agents for the Office of the Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Three years later, federal officials raided the Kaufmans' private home, looking for evidence of Medicare fraud. Among the more than 400 items seized were videotapes. The images on those tapes shocked prosecutors, who bring the Kaufmans to trial this week at the federal courthouse in Wichita on charges of enslaving the mentally ill residents who lived with them for more than a decade. Prosecutors contend the Kaufmans abused the residents for sexual pleasure. The accusations proved unbelievable for some who knew the Kaufmans. The couple, in their 60s, raised three successful children, doted over their grandchildren and religiously attended the Faith Mennonite Church. Their two residential facilities at 321 W. Seventh Street and 119 W. Eighth Street had been operating for 20 years. (Bobo)
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