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Fighting charges involving sex crimes can be a significant challenge—even when the allegations are baseless. Often, the cases revolve around the statements of the accuser and the accused, with slim to no physical evidence available to demonstrate what actually happened. In addition, sex crime investigators focus on collecting evidence that supports the allegations rather than evidence indicating they may be based on faulty memory, false memories, or outright fabrication. If you are facing allegations of a sexual offense, you need someone on your side to protect your rights and your freedom. You need Joseph, Hollander & Craft’s Overland Park sex crime attorneys.

What to Do If You’re Accused of a Sex Crime and How Our Overland Park Sex Crime Attorneys Can Help

Contact one of Joseph, Hollander & Craft’s Overland Park sex crime attorneys immediately upon learning that an allegation has been made against you. Early intervention by a skilled defense lawyer can make a huge difference in the outcome of your case.

Defending your innocence requires assembling a knowledgeable team that will collect evidence in your favor—before it is too late. Before security footage is taped over, before messages are deleted, before trash is discarded, before witnesses’ memories fade, talk to a defense attorney who can ensure you have what you need to refute a wrongful accusation. JHC’s Overland Park sex offense lawyers will work with you and a professional investigator to collect the exonerating evidence police might overlook.

If you act early enough, your defense attorney may be able to convince the prosecutor to consider this evidence before making a charging decision. It could determine whether the allegations ever make it to court at all.

Types of Sex Crime Charges We Defend Against

Our Overland Park sex crime defense attorneys represent clients faced with all types of sex offenses, including:

• Rape
• Statutory rape (unlawful voluntary sexual relations)
• Sex trafficking
• Indecent liberties with a child
• Child molestation
• Criminal sodomy
• Sexual assault
• Sexual battery
• Unlawful sexual relations
• Lewd and lascivious behavior

We also regularly defend clients who have been accused of non-contact sex offenses such as indecent solicitation, electronic solicitation, and sexual exploitation of a child, as well as charges for possession, distribution, and production of child pornography.

You Can Trust Our Overland Park Sex Crime Attorneys with Your Case

JHC’s Overland Park criminal defense attorneys will thoroughly examine all of the evidence in your case, candidly advise you regarding your options, and develop the best defense strategy for your situation. We defend our client’s constitutional rights, guard against wrongful convictions, negotiate fair plea agreements, and advocate for just sentences.

Call Our Overland Park Sex Crime Attorneys for Help

Having successfully defended adults and juveniles against serious sex crime allegations in state and federal courts across Kansas, our Overland Park sex crime defense lawyers have the experience you need—whether you are facing federal charges in Kansas City or state charges in Johnson County or Wyandotte County.

Call one of our Overland Park sex crime defense attorneys today.

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FAQs

Will I have to register as a sex offender?

A conviction for any of the following Kansas sex crimes requires registration as a sex offender:

• sexual battery
• sexual extortion
• breach of privacy
• rape
• indecent liberties with a child
• aggravated indecent liberties with a child
• criminal sodomy
• aggravated criminal sodomy
• indecent solicitation of a child
• aggravated indecent solicitation of a child
• sexual exploitation of a child
• aggravated sexual battery
• aggravated incest
• electronic solicitation
• unlawful sexual relations
• aggravated human trafficking (if committed in whole or in part for the purpose of the sexual gratification of the defendant or another);
• commercial sexual exploitation of a child
• promoting the sale of sexual relations
• internet trading in child pornography
• aggravated internet trading in child pornography

In addition, Kansas requires sex offender registration for comparable crimes committed outside the state, for “sexually motivated” crimes, and for the following crimes when one of the parties involved is less than 18 years of age:

• adultery
• criminal sodomy
• promoting prostitution
• patronizing a prostitute
• lewd and lascivious behavior

What is the age of consent in Kansas?

The age of consent in Kansas is 16. No individual younger than 16 can legally consent to sexual contact of any kind (including but not limited to sexual intercourse).

There are some circumstances when consensual sexual contact with someone 16 or older is still criminal, though. The Kansas crime called “unlawful sexual relations” prohibits “consensual sexual intercourse, lewd fondling or touching, or sodomy” between individuals with disparate power dynamics, such as:

• Teachers and students enrolled at the school where the teacher is employed
• Individuals in a position of authority in a family foster home and a foster child placed in the care of such family foster home
• Jail employees and persons confined in jail

The law criminalizes the specified sexual activity even though the student, foster child, or confined person is 16 and otherwise capable of consenting to sexual intercourse, lewd fondling or touching, or sodomy.

In addition, child pornography laws apply to sexual images of minors (anyone under 18 years old). Accordingly, it is unlawful to possess, distribute, or produce a sexual image of a 16 or 17-year-old.

Will I go to prison if I am convicted of a sex crime?

The severity of the punishment for sex crimes varies greatly depending on the nature of the offense. For example, Kansas sexual battery is a class A misdemeanor. The maximum term of confinement is one year in the county jail. Sex crimes against young children, such as rape of a child under 14, can carry sentences of lifetime imprisonment.