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LARNED, Kan. (AP) — Two employees at Larned State Hospital have been charged with helping convicted sexual offender John Freeman Colt escape from the hospital last summer.

Rachel Rena Perez, 50, of Larned, and Liliana Guadalupe Houser, 45, of Garden City, made their first court appearance Tuesday. Each faces more than a dozen counts, including have unlawful sexual relations with a patient, trafficking in contraband and obstructing the apprehension of a registered sex offender, according to a news release from Pawnee County Attorney Douglas McNett.

Colt changed his appearance and walked out of...