When they were due to be released from prison, Kansas filed a petition under the Act in state court to involuntarily commit Hendricks and Quinn.

Hendricks and Quinn testified during the trial that they agreed with the diagnosis by the state psychiatrist that they suffer from pedophilia and admitted that they continued to experience uncontrollable sexual desires for children when under extreme stress.

Since pedophilia is defined as a mental abnormality under the Act, the court ordered that Hendricks be civilly committed.

[1] Hendricks appealed the validity of his commitment and claimed that the state was unconstitutionally using ex post facto and double jeopardy law to the Kansas Supreme Court.

[2] In the subsequent Kansas v. Crane (2002), this decision was upheld for an individual that suffered from exhibitionism and antisocial personality disorder.