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... Arlan Kaufman and his wife Linda Kaufman! C'mon down folks! YOU WIN!

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.

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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.

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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.

Holy crap, kids, what the fuck were gran'ma and gran'pa thinkin'? Eighteen years? You can live with yourself that long and continue to be a twisted and depraved leech on society? That's some gumption, I tell ya.

From the crematory in Georgia that left bodies to rot on their property to the lovely couple above, the world continues to get shafted by complete idiots and deviants who have no true goal in life but to fullfill their own needs.

(warning - careening off into another topic all together)

Yes folks, this was a married man and woman, who - by all accounts - should be the moral penacle of society. I mean - as a man and a woman, they're allowed to wed each other. They can have children. They can adopt because "only a man and a woman can provide a loving and caring environment".

They live in the heart-land - the Mid-West - THE BIBLE BELT; where moral upstanding is worn on the sleeve and everyone has a flag in their front lawn, to which they insist that everyone else pledge "Under God", damn it.

They were more than likely someone's grand-parents. But maybe not. I mean - could you imagine the conversations? "How was work today, gran'ma/pa?" ... "Oh not bad, we just took in a young boy with severe retardation and a huge cock."

And even still - this was a couple. They both arrived at the conclusion that this was the correct way to treat people. Either that, one of them was abusive and controlling so much that the other went along with it for almost a quarter of a century.

At some point, it had to cross one of their minds that maybe, just maybe, this was not right. And if it didn't, I give up.