Volume 4, Issue 5
February 1, 2006
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The Child Protection eNewsletter 10 th Circuit lifts Kansas stay…  A Judicial Inquiry was launched and became public last year when abortion providers sued Kansas to block enforcement. vol3_iss12 Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter is pursuing similar cases. vol3_iss17 Last summer, we wrote to every Attorney General and asked what they are doing to enforce age of consent and mandatory reporting laws. With a federal appeals court now our on side, we will press prosecutors at every level to use every resource at their disposal to enforce these laws. As the President noted last night, teen pregnancies have declined for 12 straight years, thanks in large part to abstinence education, and abortions are at a 30-year low. http://www.whitehouse.gov The Department of Health & Human Services estimates that as many as two-thirds of all teen births are fathered by adult men. http://www.mafamily.org Enforcement of age of consent laws is the only way we can achieve further reductions in teen pregnancy rates. In other news… Another brutal murder of a child at the hands of his mother’s boyfriend in a home where New York City caseworkers had already visited has rattled the already-under-fire Administration for Children’s Services. http://abcnews.go.com ACS is already undergoing an “agency review” following other deaths in homes previously reported to it. vol4_iss4 and vol4_iss3 The city's beleaguered child welfare agency was dealt another blow Friday when police arrested one of its employees on suspicion of sexually assaulting his teenage daughter. http://hosted.ap.org Acknowledging that no amount of money can make up for what sexual abuse victims lost, a judge approved a settlement of up to $85 million between the Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington and parishioners who were molested by clergy. http://news.yahoo.com Meanwhile, Colorado's three Roman Catholic Bishops issued a joint statement criticizing a measure that would lift the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse lawsuits for two years. http://www.thedenverchannel.com Three weeks ago, a Michigan bishop made headlines acknowledging his own abuse by a priest when calling on Ohio officials to extend that state’s statute of limitations on clergy abuse claims. vol4_iss2 An Ohio man has sued his former teacher for custody of their son, following an affair he had with the teacher when he was a 17-year-old high school special education student. http://abcnews.go.com The affair began after the teen won a “win a date with a teacher” contest at the school. *for access to member only sites like the New York Times, use the ID "JohnDoeID" and the password "whatever". On sites asking for an email address, feel free to use "info@childprotectionprogram.org" Unsubscribe |
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday lifted a court order that prohibited Kansas from enforcing a law that requires health care providers to report so-called “consensual” underage sex to authorities. 
By definition, underage sex is not “consensual” because the entire point of age of consent laws is that below this age, a child cannot be deemed to have consented to sexual activity. Under Kansas law, sexual contact with or between children under 16 is a crime. The age of consent varies from state to state, but in not one instance is it less than 16. Age of consent laws are under attack by pedophiles and pedophile rights groups because they are the underlying basis for prosecuting child molesters in the United States. Without age of consent laws, prosecutors would have to prove that the sex acts were not consensual and many parents would not allow their children to endure the cross examinations that would follow. As we’ve previously reported, this is already happening. Survivors And Victims Empowered
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