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Kline Concerned about Sodomy Case WIBW, Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline is concerned that if a sodomy case before the courts goes against the state, the Kansas marriage law and laws against sex with children will be nullified. Kline held a news conference on Monday about the case of Matthew Limon, convicted in 2000 of having sex with a 14-year-old boy. That was in a group home for the developmentally disabled. The defendant's attorney, working for the ACLU, argues that Limon's 17-year prison sentence is unfair. The defense says another Kansas sex law provides a lesser penalty if the...

GAINESVILLE - A former Scout master with the Boy Scouts of America who also works for the state's child welfare agency was arrested on charges of raping a boy in his troop. Hugh Eric Self, 35, was charged with sexually abusing the child, now 12, several times between November 2002 and July, Alachua County Sheriff's Sgt. Keith Faulk said. Self was held in the Alachua County jail with no bail set Saturday. He was arrested Friday. According to the arrest report, Self met the boy, then 8, through Scouting events and the boy was later in his Scout troop. The...

Sentence handed down to school worker who had sex with student By The Associated Press (4/25/03 - HOUSTON) — A 27-year-old female supervisor at a suburban church school was sentenced Friday to 30 days in jail and fined $500 for having sex with a teen student. Lisa Zuniga, who became pregnant as a result and gave birth to a girl in February, had pleaded guilty to an aggravated sexual assault of a child charge in January. Zuniga worked at the Victory Academy, which is a church and a private school in the Houston suburb of Pasadena. The student, who...