Prosecutions of child sex crimes no longer have a statute of limitations. Similar to murder and rape cases, they can now be brought to trial decades after the crime. Additionally, victims of child sex abuse have until they are 31 years old to pursue civil lawsuits again...
2023. It was also introduced in the House by Rep. Jeff Underhill (R-Junction City). The bills would remove the statute of limitations for all crimes associated with childhood sexual abuse. In a press conference covered by theShawnee Mission...
After reading this statute it is apparent that the legislature of this state turned its attention to this type of suit and determined that unjustified evils and abuses exist which affect the public welfare of this state. We do not mean to infer in the present case that the defendant calculati...
•April 20, 2021:Rontarus Washington Jr.’s counsel withdraws from long-running murder case; he might soon be represented by Innocence Project •March 25, 2021:Court approves attorneys’ request to withdraw from long-running murder case, but moments later ...
Regulation of the nursing profession has been provided by statute in Kansas since 1913 (Laws of 1913, Chapter 231), but this is the first case to reach this court in which an action of the board has been challenged. While there are some differences in structure and language of the act in...
This bill, introduced on March 12, 2019, would change the definition of criminal ‘abuse of a child’ to more objective and less hyperbolic terms. The present statute criminalizes “torturing or cruelly beating” a child and “inflicting cruel and inhuman pain and suffering on a child.” This...