Wichita group home worker who impregnated disabled woman will go to prison
A Wichita group home worker who impregnated a physically and intellectually disabled woman while carrying on an illegal sexual relationship with her will go to prison for two years and 10 months, a Sedgwick County judge ruled Monday.
Salvador Loga Taylor, 31, was found guilty at a bench trial last month of one count of unlawful sexual relations with the woman, a resident of ResCare Community Living. Taylor was working at the organization, which provides housing and services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, when the woman disclosed that she had been having sex with him in her bed at the facility for months in 2022. Doctors discovered her pregnancy when she was checked at a local hospital for abdominal swelling and missed menstrual periods.
The woman is an adult but has the mental capacity and maturity of an 8- to 12-year-old child, authorities said. She has several health conditions, including cerebral palsy, that prevent her from walking, using the bathroom, bathing and otherwise caring for herself independently.
The woman also lacks the capacity to consent to sexual activity and is at “very high risk for undue influence, coercion, and malfeasance,” a probable cause affidavit says a doctor who evaluated her determined, although some other court records say the sex was consensual.
Kansas law prohibits employees of the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services and the Kansas Department for Children and Families, as well as employees of their contractors, from having sexual contact with patients who are in institutions or in the custody of either department — even if they could legally consent to sex in other circumstances.
At the time Taylor’s relationship with the woman was ongoing, ResCare was a contractor of KDADS through the agency’s contract with the Sedgwick County Developmental Disability Organization, court records say. He no longer works there.
Taylor’s job at ResCare included preparing meals for residents and helping them shower and use the bathroom, among other duties. He called the woman delusional when police asked him about fathering her child, but paternity testing confirmed he is the baby’s biological parent, the probable cause affidavit says.
In addition to serving the 34-month prison sentence, Taylor will spend two years on post-release supervision and must register as a sex offender, a spokeswoman for the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office said. Judge Eric Williams handed down the sentence Monday morning after denying requests for a new trial and probation from Taylor’s lawyer, court records show.
Taylor has notified the court that he plans to appeal.
