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Marten ruled that a plain reading of the Kansas statute gives mandatory reporters, such as health care providers, discretion to determine whether there is reason to suspect a child has been injured as a result of sexual abuse.<br> | Marten ruled that a plain reading of the Kansas statute gives mandatory reporters, such as health care providers, discretion to determine whether there is reason to suspect a child has been injured as a result of sexual abuse.<br> | ||
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<i>source: 'Federal judge rules against Kline in juvenile sex case'; www.kansascity.com/mld/ kansascity/14371338.htm; Kansas City Star; 18 April 2006</i> | <i>source: 'Federal judge rules against Kline in juvenile sex case'; www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/14371338.htm; Kansas City Star; 18 April 2006</i> | ||
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A federal judge ruled today that doctors, teachers and others are not required to always report underage sex between consenting youths as possible abuse. U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten granted a permanent injunction in the case filed by Aid For Women and health care providers in a constitutional challenge to Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline's interpretation of the state's mandatory reporting law. Kline contended the 1982 law requiring doctors, teachers and others to alert the state and law enforcement about potential child abuse covers consensual sex between minors.
Marten ruled that a plain reading of the Kansas statute gives mandatory reporters, such as health care providers, discretion to determine whether there is reason to suspect a child has been injured as a result of sexual abuse.
source: 'Federal judge rules against Kline in juvenile sex case'; www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/14371338.htm; Kansas City Star; 18 April 2006