eBook details
- Title: In re Mary P.
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 21, 1985
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 48 KB
Description
The opinion of the court was delivered by This is an appeal from the order of the district court of
Johnson County in a proceeding under the Kansas juvenile
offenders code, K.S.A. 1984 Supp. 38-1601 et seq. The court
held that the appellant was a juvenile offender, K.S.A. 1984
Supp. 38-1602, and that she committed two of the offenses
charged, indecent liberties with a child, as defined by K.S.A.
1984 Supp. 21-3503(1)(b), and aggravated indecent solicitation of
a child, as defined by K.S.A. 21-3511. The controlling issue on
appeal is whether evidence was properly admitted by the trial
court under the provisions of K.S.A. 60-460(dd). The alleged victims were three and one-half and six years old
at the time of the hearing. They were placed on the stand to
determine if they were qualified as witnesses. At the conclusion
of the questioning, the court found that the children were not
qualified as witnesses. Thereafter, the court permitted the State
to produce evidence of statements made by the children to their
mother some five to eight months after the occurrence. The acts [237 Kan. 457]