<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/5/1621547459771.png" alt="Keighla Belote posted this selfie on Snapchat after a woman complained to Saint Francis that Belote had distributed nude photos of her. "I'm still here bitch," Belote wrote. "Still doing just fine!" (Submitted to Kansas Reflector)" />
 <figcaption>Keighla Belote posted this selfie on Snapchat after a woman complained to Saint Francis that Belote had distributed nude photos of her. "I'm still here bitch," Belote wrote. "Still doing just fine!" (Submitted to Kansas Reflector)</figcaption>
 </figure>CAUTION: Graphic content includedBy SHERMAN SMITH <a href="https://kansasreflector.com/2021/05/20/kansas-foster-care-employee-distributed-nude-photos-of-childs-step-mom-and-kept-her-job/">Kansas Reflector</a>TOPEKA — A Saint Francis 
Ministries employee at the nonprofit’s Hutchinson office distributed 
nude photos of a foster child’s stepmother and avoided discipline for 
the personal attack.Saint Francis, the state’s
 largest foster care contractor, didn’t deny that Keighla Belote, an 
attendant care worker, sent the photos. The organization investigated 
the situation in early January and concluded her private actions on 
social media are constitutionally protected free speech.Belote connected with the 
step-mom on Facebook after visiting the woman’s house with a case 
manager. Belote then sent three nude images she had obtained from a 
mutual friend to the step-mom’s contacts.Kansas Reflector doesn’t 
identify victims of sexual harassment without their consent. In emails 
to Kansas Reflector, the woman said Belote’s attack made her feel 
unsafe. She provided evidence of the attack and other now-deleted images
 that Belote posted on social media.“I can’t believe they’d 
allow people like that to work for them,” the victim said. “They should 
have morals in and outside of work.”She sent two emails on 
Jan. 5 complaining about the situation to Saint Francis’ human resources
 department, and said she didn’t get a response from the organization.In the emails to HR, the 
woman described Belote’s actions as “revenge porn” and “malicious.” She 
said the attack “has caused so much chaos for my family.”“I do not believe she is 
being a mature adult/professional what so ever and I truly fear she will
 eventually affect my step son or his siblings involved with St. 
Francis,” the woman wrote.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/5/1621547516237.jpeg" alt="Keighla Belote posted this selfie, in which she is wearing a Saint Francis lanyard, on social media. The words “F**** today!” appeared across the lower portion of the image. (Submitted to Kansas Reflector)" />
 <figcaption>Keighla Belote posted this selfie, in which she is wearing a Saint Francis lanyard, on social media. The words “F**** today!” appeared across the lower portion of the image. (Submitted to Kansas Reflector)</figcaption>
 </figure>She provided a screenshot 
of a selfie Belote had posted on Snapchat in which the employee was 
wearing a Saint Francis lanyard while flipping off the camera. The 
caption: “F*** today!”The woman wondered how Belote’s actions reflected on the faith-based organization’s values.“What she has done does 
not portray any of those qualities,” she wrote to HR, “especially since 
my photos did not involve her in any way other than she came across them
 and thought everyone should see them.”Belote didn’t respond to a
 Facebook message seeking comment for this story, and Saint Francis 
declined to coordinate a statement from her.Morgan Rothenberger, a 
spokeswoman for Saint Francis, said the organization doesn’t support the
 distribution of porn. After HR was notified of the situation, the 
organization talked to Belote and interviewed other employees.Saint Francis, 
Rothenberger said, is respectful of an employee’s right “to be active 
online in a variety of forums” and considered the matter to be resolved.“Some of what you’re 
discussing would be the employee’s freedom of speech or decision-making 
and would not impact Saint Francis or our clients if the employee was 
not involved in the case in question,” Rothenberger said. “Some of which
 you mentioned — obscene gestures in an SFM uniform — does violate our 
social media standards, and an employee could expect to be disciplined 
for such a violation.”Rothenberger said Belote 
was in training with the case worker when they visited a client’s house,
 where the victim lived. Belote didn’t realize she knew the family 
before she arrived at the house, Rothenberger said.“The employee was never 
involved with that case again,” Rothenberger said. “Because of her 
position shadowing the case worker, it was not considered a 
conflict-of-interest situation.”Mike Deines, spokesman for
 the Kansas Department for Children and Families, said any action that 
may have a negative impact on children and families “is of utmost 
concern.”“The agency expects its 
case management providers and their staff to treat families with dignity
 and respect and if that does not happen to take the appropriate action 
to ensure the behavior does not continue,” Deines said. “Our providers 
should do everything possible to prevent inappropriate fraternization 
and ensure their workers maintain professional boundaries at all times.”The victim in this case 
said she didn’t know Belote before the visit, and that Belote sent her a
 friend request on Facebook immediately after the visit. She said 
Belote’s complicated motivation for revenge involves accusations of 
infidelity.<a href="http://www.kslegislature.org/li_2020/b2019_20/statute/021_000_0000_chapter/021_061_0000_article/021_061_0001_section/021_061_0001_k/">Kansas law</a> prohibits transmission of nude images without permission. The victim said she never reported the crime to police.“I was going to, but after Saint Francis did nothing, I was just over it and felt defeated,” she said.She added: “I didn’t want to relive this all over again, but I definitely feel Saint Francis needs called out on their actions.”The woman’s sister was 
among the contacts who received a message from Belote with the nude 
photos. The sister threatened to tell Belote’s supervisors.“Unless you want to lose 
your st.Francis job, sending out OTHER peoples nudes that aren’t 
yours..I’d probably stop,” the sister wrote.Belote responded: “LOL OK 
what are you gonna do call my boss and tell her that I prove that 
somebody else was cheating that’s fine we just had this talk once it 
hits the internet it’s public information thank you.”After the incident was reported to Saint Francis, Belote posted another selfie on Snapchat:“I’m still here bitch. Still doing just fine! (kiss emoji, shrug emoji)”Sherman Smith has written award-winning news stories about the instability of the Kansas foster care system, misconduct by government officials, sexual abuse, technology, education, and the Legislature.&nbsp;

Kan. foster care employee distributed nude photos of child’s step-mom, kept her job