Kaitlyn Hunt was one of those all-American high school girls.
She was blond, and a cheerleader; she played on the basketball team. She’s gay.
Oops.
Not so fast. Not really so ‘all-American’ now, is she? At
least not in Florida.
Kaitlyn Hunt started dating a girl she met on the basketball
team and, according to her father, Steven everything changed. Kaitlyn was
dropped from the team because the coach didn’t want the “drama” of a lesbian
relationship.
Then it gets worse because, at the time, Hunt was seventeen
and her girlfriend just fifteen. Kaitlyn’s girlfriend’s parents were not about
to have a lesbian daughter, and the moment Kaitlyn Hunt turned eighteen, those parents
had her arrested. Kaitlyn Hunt was charged with two felony counts of lewd and
lascivious battery on a child. And then she was expelled from school, just weeks
before her graduation.
"[The girlfriend's parents] are out to destroy my daughter, because they feel like she ‘made’ their daughter gay. They see being gay as wrong and they blame my daughter. Of course, I see it 100% differently. I don’t see or label these girls as gay. They are teenagers in high school experimenting with their sexuality – with mutual consent. And even if their daughter is gay, who cares? She is still their daughter.”—Kelley Hunt Smith, Kaitlyn’s mother
The attorney general offered Kaitlyn a plea deal: two years
of house arrest and a year of probation, though the ‘crime’ would stay on her
permanent adult record.
Crime. Being a Lesbian in high school and falling in love
with a younger girl. Kaitlyn’s parents are asking people to sign a Change.org petition urging
authorities to drop or lessen the charges.
You know, of being gay.
source
Change.org Petition
dear gawd. over reacting much for something that is nobody's business.
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Signed Kaitlin's petition
I'd like to think that Kaitlyn could counter-sue for defamation of character or something. And where is the girlfriend ... why isn't she speaking up?
ReplyDeletePS - still bugging me...
ReplyDeleteWhen I worked in social services (teaching sex ed) and in the schools I always thought the age division of degrees of statutory rape were off. I think they should be within school groups. If, as our district decided, that grades 9 thru 12 are okay to be in the same building then you've obviously thought that they are okay to do everything together.
I still believe that teenagers should hold off on certain activities as all sorts of havoc can result - maturity issues, lack of knowledge, the can't happen to me syndrome, pregnancy, disease, do you really want a pelvic?, all sorts of mischief --- but to label an 18 year old a sex offender is beyond stupid.
I signed it.
ReplyDeleteThis is clearly a case of vicious character assassination. The parents bringing these charges should be totally ashamed of themselves.
I hope that they are not invoking God, faith, or anything like that as justification for this.
more FL dim bulbs. that poor girl; I signed.
ReplyDeletethe parents is what's bugging me
ReplyDeleteshe broke the law, she is 18 GF is 14 this is against the law period, it wasn't because she was gay, this happens alot in the str8 world , get the F-over and move on
ReplyDeleteBrian Banks and Sean Lanigan are men who were falsely accused of sex crimes by underage females. Brian Banks spent 5 years in prison before his accuser admitted she had falsely accused him. Sean Lanigan had to spend 6 figures to defend himself. Where was the ACLU when these men were falsely accused. Kaitlyn Hunt did commit something which is clearly defined by Florida Law as a sex crime. Now people are saying Kaitlyn Hunt should get a pass because of her gender and her sexual orientation.
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