KANSAS: Matthew Limon Released From Prison

Finally! Matthew Limon has been released from prison. As I mentioned before, he was put in prison for violating a Kansas statute which prevented sexual contact between adults over 18 years old and children under 18. Limon had just turned 18 and was living at a home for the developmentally disable in Paola, KS when he was accused of oral copulation with a 14-year old fellow male resident. He was convicted and sentenced to seventeen years in prison in 2003. If the underage minor had been a female the state's "Romeo and Juliet" law would have ensured that he not face more than fifteen months in prison. In June 2003, the Supreme Court voided all sodomy laws in the United States but it has taken almost two and a half years to Free Matthew.