Kansas Age of Consent Laws: Statutes, Penalties and Reporting

(a) Indecent liberties with a child is engaging in any of the following acts with a child who is 14 or more years of age but less than 16 years of age: (1) Any lewd fondling or touching of the person of either the child or the offender, done or submitted to with the intent to arouse or to satisfy the sexual desires of either the child or the offender, or both; or (2) soliciting the child to engage in any lewd fondling or touching of the person of another with the intent to arouse or satisfy the sexual desires of the child, the offender or another.

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Also relied on in: Kansas Expungement Laws: K.S.A. 21-6614 Eligibility, Waiting Periods, and Filing Steps, Age of Consent Laws by State: Statutes, Protections and Reporting

(a) Rape is: (1) Knowingly engaging in sexual intercourse with a victim who does not consent to the sexual intercourse under any of the following circumstances: (A) When the victim is overcome by force or fear; or (B) when the victim is unconscious or physically powerless; (2) Knowingly engaging in sexual intercourse with a victim when the victim is incapable of giving consent because of mental deficiency or disease, or when the victim is incapable of giving consent because of the effect of any alcoholic liquor, narcotic, drug or other substance, which condition was known by the offender or was reasonably apparent to the offender; (3) sexual intercourse with a child who is under 14 years of age; (4) sexual intercourse with a victim when the victim's consent was obtained through a knowing misrepresentation made by the offender that the sexual intercourse was a medically or therapeutically necessary procedure; or (5) sexual intercourse with a victim when the victim's consent was obtained through a knowing misrepresentation made by the offender that the sexual intercourse was a legally required procedure within the scope of the offender's authority.

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Also relied on in: Kansas Statute of Limitations: Filing Deadlines by Case Type

(a) Criminal sodomy is: (1) Sodomy between persons who are 16 or more years of age and members of the same sex; (2) sodomy between a person and an animal; (3) sodomy with a child who is 14 or more years of age but less than 16 years of age; or (4) causing a child 14 or more years of age but less than 16 years of age to engage in sodomy with any person or animal. (b) Aggravated criminal sodomy is: (1) Sodomy with a child who is under 14 years of age; (2) causing a child under 14 years of age to engage in sodomy with any person or an animal; or (3) sodomy with a victim who does not consent to the sodomy or causing a victim, without the victim's consent, to engage in sodomy with any person or an animal under any of the following circumstances: (A) When the victim is overcome by force or fear; (B) when the victim is unconscious or physically powerless; or (C) when the victim is incapable of giving consent because of mental deficiency or disease, or when the victim is incapable of giving consent because of the effect of any alcoholic liquor, narcotic, drug or other substance, which condition was known by, or was reasonably apparent to, the offender.

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Also relied on in: Kansas Court Records: How to Search the District Court Public Access Portal

(a) Unlawful voluntary sexual relations is: (1) Engaging in any of the following acts with a child who is 14 or more years of age but less than 16 years of age: (A) Voluntary sexual intercourse; (B) voluntary sodomy; or (C) voluntary lewd fondling or touching; (2) when the offender is less than 19 years of age; (3) when the offender is less than four years of age older than the child; (4) when the child and the offender are the only parties involved; and (5) when the child and the offender are members of the opposite sex. (b) Unlawful voluntary sexual relations as defined in: (1) Subsection (a)(1)(A) is a severity level 8, person felony; (2) subsection (a)(1)(B) is a severity level 9, person felony; and (3) subsection (a)(1)(C) is a severity level 10, person felony.

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(a) Unlawful sexual relations is engaging in consensual sexual intercourse, lewd fondling or touching, or sodomy with a person who is not married to the offender if: (1) The offender is an employee or volunteer of the department of corrections, or the employee or volunteer of a contractor who is under contract to provide services for a correctional institution, and the person with whom the offender is engaging in consensual sexual intercourse, lewd fondling or touching, or sodomy is a person 16 years of age or older who is an inmate; (2) the offender is a parole officer, volunteer for the department of corrections or the employee or volunteer of a contractor who is under contract to provide supervision services for persons on parole, conditional release or postrelease supervision and the person with whom the offender is engaging in consensual sexual intercourse, lewd fondling or touching, or sodomy is a person 16 years of age or older who is an inmate who has been released on parole, conditional release or postrelease supervision and the offender has knowledge that the person with whom the offender is engaging in consensual sexual intercourse, lewd fondling or touching, or…

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(a) Human trafficking is: (1) Except as provided in subsection (b)(4) and (5), the intentional recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud or coercion for the purpose of subjecting the person to involuntary servitude or forced labor; (2) intentionally benefitting financially or by receiving anything of value from participation in a venture that the person has reason to know has engaged in acts set forth in subsection (a)(1); (3) knowingly coercing employment by obtaining or maintaining labor or services that are performed or provided by another person through any of the following: (A) Causing or threatening to cause physical injury to any person; (B) physically restraining or threatening to physically restrain another person; (C) abusing or threatening to abuse the law or legal process; (D) threatening to withhold food, lodging or clothing; or (E) knowingly destroying, concealing, removing, confiscating or possessing any actual or purported government identification document of another person; or (4) knowingly holding another person in a condition of peonage in satisfaction of a debt…

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(a) Indecent solicitation of a child is enticing, commanding, inviting, persuading or attempting to persuade a child 14 or more years of age but less than 16 years of age to: (1) Commit or to submit to an unlawful sexual act; or (2) enter any vehicle, building, room or secluded place with intent to commit an unlawful sexual act upon or with the child. (b) Aggravated indecent solicitation of a child is enticing, commanding, inviting, persuading or attempting to persuade a child under the age of 14 years to: (1) Commit or submit to an unlawful sexual act; or (2) enter any vehicle, building, room or secluded place with the intent to commit an unlawful sexual act upon or with the child. (c) (1) Indecent solicitation of a child is a severity level 6, person felony. (2) Aggravated indecent solicitation of a child is a severity level 5, person felony. (d) It shall not be a defense that the offender did not know or have reason to know that the sexual act was unlawful.

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(a) Electronic solicitation is, by means of communication conducted through the telephone, internet or by other electronic means, enticing or soliciting a person, whom the offender believes to be a child, to commit or submit to an unlawful sexual act. (b) Electronic solicitation is a: (1) Severity level 3, person felony if the offender believes the person to be a child 14 or more years of age but less than 16 years of age; and (2) severity level 1, person felony if the offender believes the person to be a child under 14 years of age. (c) As used in this section, "communication conducted through the internet or by other electronic means" includes, but is not limited to, e-mail, chatroom chats and text messaging.

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(a) Except as provided in K.S.A. 21-5610 and 21-5611, and amendments thereto, sexual exploitation of a child is: (1) Employing, using, persuading, inducing, enticing or coercing a child under 18 years of age, or a person whom the offender believes to be a child under 18 years of age, to engage in sexually explicit conduct with the intent to promote any performance; (2) (A) possessing any visual depiction of a child under 18 years of age shown or heard engaging in sexually explicit conduct with intent to arouse or satisfy the sexual desires or appeal to the prurient interest of the offender or any other person; or (B) possessing any artificially generated visual depiction with intent to arouse or satisfy the sexual desires or appeal to the prurient interest of the offender or any other person; (3) being a parent, guardian or other person having custody or control of a child under l8 years of age and knowingly permitting such child to engage in, or assist another to engage in, sexually explicit conduct for any purpose described in subsection (a)(1) or (2); or (4) promoting any performance that includes sexually explicit conduct by a child under 18 years of age, or a person whom…

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(a) Lewd and lascivious behavior is: (1) Publicly engaging in otherwise lawful sexual intercourse or sodomy with knowledge or reasonable anticipation that the participants are being viewed by others; or (2) publicly exposing a sex organ or exposing a sex organ in the presence of a person who is not the spouse of the offender and who has not consented thereto, with intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desires of the offender or another. (b) Lewd and lascivious behavior is a: (1) Class B nonperson misdemeanor, if committed in the presence of a person 16 or more years of age; and (2) severity level 9, person felony, if committed in the presence of a person under 16 years of age.

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Also relied on in: Kansas Pornography Laws (2026): Obscenity and Age Verification

(a) Incest is marriage to or engaging in otherwise lawful sexual intercourse or sodomy, as defined in K.S.A. 21-5501, and amendments thereto, with a person who is 18 or more years of age and who is known to the offender to be related to the offender as any of the following biological relatives: Parent, child, grandparent of any degree, grandchild of any degree, brother, sister, half-brother, half-sister, uncle, aunt, nephew or niece. (b) Aggravated incest is: (1) Marriage to a person who is under 18 years of age and who is known to the offender to be related to the offender as any of the following biological, step or adoptive relatives: Child, grandchild of any degree, brother, sister, half-brother, half-sister, uncle, aunt, nephew or niece; or (2) engaging in the following acts with a person who is 16 or more years of age but under 18 years of age and who is known to the offender to be related to the offender as any of the following biological, step or adoptive relatives: Child, grandchild of any degree, brother, sister, half-brother, half-sister, uncle, aunt, nephew or niece: (A) Otherwise lawful sexual intercourse or sodomy as defined by K.S.A.

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(a) Commercial sexual exploitation of a child is knowingly: (1) Hiring a person younger than 18 years of age by giving, or offering or agreeing to give, anything of value to any person, to engage in a manual or other bodily contact stimulation of the genitals of any person with the intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desires of the offender or another, sexual intercourse, sodomy or any unlawful sexual act; (2) establishing, owning, maintaining or managing any property, whether real or personal, where sexual relations are being sold or offered for sale by a person younger than 18 years of age, or participating in the establishment, ownership, maintenance or management thereof; or (3) permitting any property, whether real or personal, partially or wholly owned or controlled by the defendant to be used as a place where sexual relations are being sold or offered for sale by a person who is younger than 18 years of age.

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(a) (1) Except as provided in subsection (b) or (d), a defendant who is 18 years of age or older and is convicted of the following crimes committed on or after July 1, 2006, shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment for life with a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of not less than 25 years unless the court determines that the defendant should be sentenced as determined in subsection (a)(2): (A) Aggravated human trafficking, as defined in K.S.A. 21-5426(b), and amendments thereto, if the victim is less than 14 years of age; (B) rape, as defined in K.S.A. 21-5503(a)(3), and amendments thereto; (C) aggravated indecent liberties with a child, as defined in K.S.A. 21-5506(b)(3), and amendments thereto; (D) aggravated criminal sodomy, as defined in K.S.A. 21-5504(b)(1) or (b)(2), and amendments thereto; (E) commercial sexual exploitation of a child, as defined in K.S.A. 21-6422, and amendments thereto, if the victim is less than 14 years of age; (F) sexual exploitation of a child, as defined in K.S.A 21-5510(a)(1) or (a)(4), and amendments thereto, if the child is less than 14 years of age; (G) aggravated internet trading in child pornography, as defined in K.S.A.

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As used in the Kansas offender registration act, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Offender" means: (1) A sex offender; (2) a violent offender; (3) a drug offender; (4) any person who has been required to register under out-of-state law or is otherwise required to be registered; and (5) any person required by court order to register for an offense not otherwise required as provided in the Kansas offender registration act. (b) "Sex offender" includes any person who: (1) On or after April 14, 1994, is convicted of any sexually violent crime; (2) on or after July 1, 2002, is adjudicated as a juvenile offender for an act which, if committed by an adult, would constitute the commission of a sexually violent crime, unless the court, on the record, finds that the act involved non-forcible sexual conduct, the victim was at least 14 years of age and the offender was not more than four years older than the victim; (3) has been determined to be a sexually violent predator; (4) on or after July 1, 1997, is convicted of any of the following crimes when one of the parties involved is less than 18 years of age: (A) Adultery, as defined in K.S.A.

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Also relied on in: Kansas Voyeurism Laws, Kansas Child Custody Laws (2026): Types, Best Interests, and Your Rights

(a) (1) Except as provided in subsection (c), if convicted of any of the following offenses, an offender's duration of registration shall be, if confined, 15 years after the date of parole, discharge or release, whichever date is most recent, or, if not confined, 15 years from the date of conviction: (A) Sexual battery, as defined in K.S.A. 21-3517, prior to its repeal, or K.S.A. 21-5505(a), and amendments thereto; (B) adultery, as defined in K.S.A. 21-3507, prior to its repeal, or K.S.A. 21-5511, and amendments thereto, when one of the parties involved is less than 18 years of age; (C) promoting the sale of sexual relations, as defined in K.S.A. 21-6420, and amendments thereto; (D) patronizing a prostitute, as defined in K.S.A. 21-3515, prior to its repeal, or K.S.A. 21-6421, prior to its amendment by section 18 of chapter 120 of the 2013 Session Laws of Kansas on July 1, 2013, when one of the parties involved is less than 18 years of age; (E) lewd and lascivious behavior, as defined in K.S.A. 21-3508, prior to its repeal, or K.S.A. 21-5513, and amendments thereto, when one of the parties involved is less than 18 years of age; (F) capital murder, as defined in K.S.A.

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