Escaped K.C.-area sex offender caught

? A man who escaped from the Kansas sexual predator treatment program is back in custody.

Bruce Franklin Burns was arrested Saturday night in an area of Rush County about 15 miles from the Larned State Hospital.

Burns, 41, escaped from the facility Wednesday. Court records show he was convicted in Wyandotte County in 1998 for attempted criminal sodomy and attempted aggravated indecent liberties with a child.