{"id":125238,"date":"2026-02-06T16:02:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/125238\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T16:02:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:02:34","slug":"bill-by-manhattan-women-in-petersen-sex-assault-case-passes-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/125238\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill by Manhattan women in Petersen sex assault case passes committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOPEKA \u2014 Almost six months after the trial of chiropractor Clark Petersen began, some of his 19 victims passed the first hurdle to create a state law requiring a person be remanded to jail when convicted of certain felonies.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Bill 358 passed the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday and now will be put to vote on the Kansas Senate floor. Rep. Sydney Carlin, D-66th District helped sponsor the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Petersen was allowed to remain on bond after being convicted in August of 51 counts of sex crimes against former chiropractic patients, since a jury had not yet decided on the state\u2019s motion for a special sentencing adjustment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themercury.com\/news\/bill-by-manhattan-women-in-petersen-sex-assault-case-passes-committee\/article_b4eefb26-3ef6-4d25-b46b-2d1dbaca9b8e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">To view the full article visit theMercury.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOPEKA \u2014 Almost six months after the trial of chiropractor Clark Petersen began, some of his 19 victims&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-125238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}