"Obviously a tragic situation." State Senator Dave Knudson says the situation surrounding Ted Klaudt raises a lot of questions.

"Certainly as a legislator it makes you wonder about whether we need strengthened oversight in the foster care areas," he says.

But to Senator Knudson, it also raises questions about a code of ethics that he says the state legislature needs.

"I do think the code of ethics is an idea who's time has come," says Sen. Knudson.

After the Senator Dan Sutton hearings on accusations of inappropriate conduct with a male legislative page, and now this, Knudson says it's an issue that needs to be addressed.

But he says the Ted Klaudt case is a lot different.

"It seems to me much more than legislator/page issues, but between a foster parent and foster child, so I don't know that anything the legislature could do in terms of codes of ethics would be able to have any meaningful impact on a foster parent/foster child relationship," said Sen. Knudson.

Others who served in the house with Klaudt say this situation is tragic, but not representative.