GOSHEN, N.Y. -- State Police say a 59-year-old mentally disabled man was removed from Silent Farm in Goshen after accusations that owners John and Mary Quick were mistreating him.

"The investigation revealed that the Quicks had a subject living on their property in poor conditions in a converted stable," said State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation Captain Pierce Gallagher.  

In a deposition to police, the man says the Quicks gave him only three TV dinners for two weeks and denied him access to doctors.

In another deposition, a neighbor says he went to the employee's living space and observed, "There's limited lighting and the apartment was cold. I noticed that he had a cough when we were out. There may have been mold in the barn where he lives, but it was too dark to tell."

But a friend of the Quick family says she worked at that farm for years, and that the owner would never treat someone the way police say the Quicks did.

"There is a bathroom with running water right across the hall there for it. He has several heaters, which are free for him to use at his own will; he has been provided transportation as he wished," said Quick family friend Barbara Allen.  

The former employee said he was overworked and told State Police, "The kind of work I do for the Quicks is taking care of the animals and the grounds. It was just me doing everything. I work seven days a week. No days off. There [aren't] any other ranch hands or workers up there."

The Quicks have also been accused of taking money from the alleged victim.

"The subject had provided them access to his bank account and during that time period, over the course of, at least going back to 2009, a large sum of money was taken from that account and used to pay personal expenses for the ranch," said Gallagher.  

State Police say it was more than $36,000. But the family friend says the Quicks are being painted as bad people, when she has only ever known them to be kind and caring.

"They are beside themselves, traumatized. Their family is traumatized," Allen said. "Phones are ringing off the hook; they are completely unfounded accusations."

The Quicks face charges of grand larceny and endangering an incompetent person, and are due back in court Wednesday afternoon.