The Wyandotte County District Attorney’s Office charged Phillip Lavon Taylor, 17, with one count of aggravated battery. Taylor is a 17-year-old juvenile and was charged in the juvenile division of the district court.
Taylor is charged in connection with an attack Thursday evening on a female at the Juvenile Intake and Assessment Center, according to the district attorney’s office. JIAC is a juvenile office where juveniles who are taken into custody by police are processed for release to parents, legal guardians or some other residential center. JIAC processes juveniles who are not going to be detained in the juvenile detention center.
Taylor was taken to JIAC by Kansas City, Kan., police. Taylor is charged with attacking a female worker in the JIAC offices, the district attorney’s office stated. The worker was transported to the University of Kansas Medical Center where she was treated and released.
Taylor is currently being held in the Wyandotte County Juvenile Detention Center awaiting an appearance in juvenile court on Monday. A motion to determine whether Taylor should be prosecuted as adult has been filed with the district court.
Taylor appeared on Jan. 23 in the Wyandotte County Juvenile Division of the District Court for sentencing on two misdemeanor battery cases, according to the district attorney’s office. These two cases are unrelated to each other and to the present charges.
The court sentenced Taylor on the misdemeanor charges and closed the cases without requiring a probation be served.
Taylor is presumed innocent until proven guilty.