(KAIR)--Two young, teenage, Atchison County sex offenders have learned their fates, with both sentenced to probation.

That's according to Atchison County Attorney Sherri Becker who, in a release, says the crimes involving the two occurred in April, 2024, with a 14-year-old defendant, identified only as K.C. and his 13-year-old accomplice, named only as L.S., convicted of committing the offenses.

According to the release, K.C. offered to pay a 5-year-old girl money for sexual favors, while a 6-year-old girl was touched inappropriately, with those crimes happening as the young girls played outside.

K.C. was charged with several counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and one count of lewd and lascivious behavior. L.S. was charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, to which he entered a no-contest plea in August, 2024, leading to his October, 2024 sentencing to 6-months probation, which the release calls "the standard sentence under the juvenile justice code."

K.C., in December, 2024, pled no contest to one charge of aggravated indecent liberties with a child as it, the release explains, "pertained to both the five-year-old girl and the six-year-old girl." The court
accepted the plea and adjudicated him.

Last week, Becker says, a two-hour sentencing hearing was held for K.C., with the state asking for the maximum sentence allowed, with a judge, under Kansas law, permitted to sentence a juvenile offender convicted for aggravated indecent liberties to a term of 2-years up to when the offender turns 22 1/2 years old with the juvenile department of corrections.

While the state made its request, the victims requested that K.C. serve time, while K.C. asked for probation, which the judge granted, sentencing him to 12-months probation with numerous conditions, including completing a sex offender treatment program.

The juvenile sex-crimes case was investigated by the Atchison County Sheriff's Office.