NEWTON, Kan. (KSNW) — Proposed federal budget cuts could hurt programs that protect the rights of people with disabilities and prevent abuse.

Nancy Jensen remembers the years she spent at Kaufman House, a group home in Newton. What looked like a place of care was really a place of abuse. She says the Disability Rights Center of Kansas helped bring her abusers to justice.

With potential funding cuts, the center's executive director says it could hurt their ability to hold abusers accountable. Jensen is worried that without the legal advocacy at the Disability Rights Center of Kansas, abuse will continue.

"Everyone thought that it was a place where their loved one could go if they had mental illness. It was a house and Mr. Kaufman, who was a Ph.D. In social work, would do this therapy," s

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