Letter: When accountability falls short, Kansas children pay the price - Newton Kansan

Letter: When accountability falls short, Kansas children pay the price - Newton Kansan

Kansas law already makes it a crime to endanger a child, but testimony before the House Judiciary Committee showed that when very young children are harmed, existing penalties do not always reflect the severity or permanence of that harm. House Bill 2412 was prompted by the case of Benny Cannon, who suffered a catastrophic hypoxic brain injury as an infant while in the care of an unlicensed daycare. Benny survived cardiac arrest, but now lives w…