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1. Kan.Stat.Ann. § 60-523 (a)  “No action for recovery of damages suffered as a result of childhood sexual abuse shall be commenced more than three years after the date the person attains 18 years of age or more than three years from the date the person discovers or reasonably should have discovered that the injury or illness was caused by childhood sexual abuse, whichever occurs later.”

a. Cosgrove v. Kan. Dep’t of Soc. & Rehab. Servs., 332 Fed. Appx. 463, 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 12110 (10th Cir. Kan. 2009) (Applying § 60-523(a) to all plaintiff’s claims versus supervisory agency, its employees and perpetrator foster parents).

TOLLING:

1. Discovery, yes, liberal, via statute

a. Kan.Stat.Ann. § 60-523 (c) “Discovery that the injury or illness was caused by childhood sexual abuse shall not be deemed to have occurred solely by virtue of the person’s awareness, knowledge or memory of the acts of abuse. The person need not establish which act in a series of continuing sexual abuse incidents caused the injury or illness complained of, but may compute the date of discovery from the date of discovery of the last act by the same perpetrator which is a part of a common scheme or plan of sexual abuse.”

b. Kan.Stat.Ann. § 60-523 (a) (“from the date the person discovers or reasonably should have discovered that the injury or illness was caused by childhood sexual abuse”)

2. Majority, yes.   Kan.Stat.Ann. § 60-523 (a) (“after the date the person attains 18 years…”)

K.S.A. § 21-5107 (a)  A prosecution for rape, aggravated criminal sodomy, murder, terrorism or illegal use of weapons of mass destruction may be commenced at any time.

K.S.A. § 21-5107 (c)(1)-(2)  Except as provided in subsection (e), a prosecution for a sexually violent crime as defined in K.S.A. 22-3717, and amendments thereto: (1)  When the victim is 18 years of age or older shall be commenced within 10 years or one year from the date on which the identity of the suspect is conclusively established by DNA testing, whichever is later; or (2)  when the victim is under 18 years of age shall be commenced within 10 years of the date the victim turns 18 years of age or one year from the date on which the identity of the suspect is conclusively established by DNA testing, whichever is later.

K.S.A. § 21-5107 (d)  Except as provided by subsection (e), a prosecution for any crime, as defined in K.S.A. 2013 Supp. 21-5102, and amendments thereto, not governed by subsection (a), (b) or (c) shall be commenced within five years after it is committed.

K.S.A. § 21-5107 (e)(6)(A)-(D) (“The period within which a prosecution shall be commenced shall not include any period in which: (6)  whether the fact of the crime is concealed by the active act or conduct of the accused, there is substantially competent evidence to believe two or more of the following factors are present: (A)  The victim was a child under 15 years of age at the time of the crime; (B)  the victim was of such age or intelligence that the victim was unable to determine that the acts constituted a crime; (C)  the victim was prevented by a parent or other legal authority from making known to law enforcement authorities the fact of the crime whether or not the parent or other legal authority is the accused; and (D)  there is substantially competent expert testimony indicating the victim psychologically repressed such witness’ memory of the fact of the crime, and in the expert’s professional opinion the recall of such memory is accurate and free of undue manipulation, and substantial corroborating evidence can be produced in support of the allegations contained in the complaint or information but in no event may a prosecution be commenced as provided in subsection (e)(6) later than the date the victim turns 28 years of age. Corroborating evidence may include, but is not limited to, evidence the defendant committed similar acts against other persons or evidence of contemporaneous physical manifestations of the crime.