KANSAS CITY, Kan., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Activists were calling for a law banning sexual relations between caregivers and patients in Kansas after criminal charges against a male nurse were dropped.
The Kansas City Star said Wednesday that prosecutors in Johnson County decided not to prosecute the nurse, who was accused of sodomy on a brain-damaged woman under his care.
The Star said the prosecution was derailed after it was determined that although severely handicapped, the woman had enough capacity that she could have consented to the sex act.
"There are moral wrongs and there are acts contrary to the law," sad District Attorney Phill Kline. "Sometimes they're different."
The issue prompted legal analysts and advocates for the mentally disabled to call for a new law making sex between patients and caregivers illegal regardless of consent much in the same way Kansas prohibits sex between teachers and students.
