Isn’t Aggravated Indecent Liberties Still a Crime in Kansas?

Planned Parenthood facilities in several states have been exposed engaging in covering up potential cases of sexual abuse of minors. Now, a Planned Parenthood center in Overland Park is the latest to have been shown attempting to cover up statutory rape so a young girl can get contraception or birth control. So where is the Overland Park Police, the Johnson County Sheriff, or the Kansas Bureau of Investigation?

At least two Kansas state legislators, Senator Tim Huelskamp and Representative Lance Kinzer, are stepping to the plate to do something about the violations of Kansas Law. But there is evidence exposing an institutional pattern of cover-up of sexual abuse at the Overland Park Planned Parenthood Facility and it worthy of an in-depth investigation.

In a recorded telephone conversation between a girl posing as a 14-year-old and a Planned Parenthood employee at its Overland Park facility, the employee is informed that the young girl believes she may be pregnant by her 23-year-old boyfriend. Planned Parenthood invites the young girl to the clinic for a pregnancy test and informs the potential statutory rape victim that her sexual abuser can come to the clinic to pick up the contraceptives. And I better not hear any of my law enforcement colleagues call this entrapment either. Entrapment cannot occur by a private citizen only the government!

Kinzer and Huelskamp have indicated that at no point during the recorded conversation, does the employee raise any concerns about sexual abuse, despite the fact that the situation described constitutes Aggravated Indecent Liberties under Kansas’s law. “This shocking conversation is consistent with a nationwide Planned Parenthood pattern of covering up sexual abuse of young girls,” said Huelskamp, who is also a candidate for Congress.

“And as a father of two young girls ages 13 and 12, I am appalled that Planned Parenthood shows absolute contempt for our laws protecting children from sexual abuse. I don't think it is too much to ask for any entity that receives taxpayer funding to follow our laws, especially those protecting young girls from sexual abusers," he said. Kinzer said that the recording could have an effect on the debate in the Kansas legislature about sending taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood in the form of family planning grants.

“In the last two fiscal years alone, Kansans have paid out more than $550,000 to this organization,” he said. “There is simply no reason in the world why taxpayer dollars should be given to underwrite entities who flaunt laws." Now, Kinzer and Huelskamp promised to seek budget language prohibiting taxpayer funding of entities that violate state sexual abuse reporting laws.

The Overland Park facility exposed in this recording, Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, is already under serious investigation. Former District Attorney Phill Kline has filed 107 Misdemeanor and felony counts against this clinic, including performing illegal late terms abortion and falsifying medical reports. And yet no update from the District Attorney’s Office. Each month this case drags on other crimes are occurring and that’s the reality behind the situation.

It’s time for law enforcement to step up to the plate. Investigations are conducted by law enforcement agencies and the evidence supports that an investigation is warranted.

To hear the recording click on this link.