Florida teen fights criminal charges for same-sex relationship

[MKR&*42]

What kind of backwards nonsense is this.

Most high school seniors are excitedly preparing to put on their cap and gown and looking forward to the future right now. Kaitlyn Hunt, 18, is instead fighting bigotry and hoping she won’t be forced to go to jail instead of college. Her crime? Dating another student – a female student. Kaitlyn’s family took her story public on May 17th, via Facebook.

Hunt was a highly respected student at Florida’s Sebastian River High School with good grades and participation in cheerleading, basketball and chorus. She was even voted “most school spirit.”

All of that changed when she started dating a fellow student, a girl she met on the basketball team, at the beginning of the school year. According to Kaitlyn’s father, Steven R. Hunt, Jr., the relationship caused waves at the school from the start. His daughter was dropped from the basketball team because the coach feared a same-sex relationship would bring unwanted “drama.”

Then the family was shocked and devastated when police came to their home in February to arrest Kaitlyn. She was charged with two felony counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a child 12 – 16 years of age.

Kaitlyn was 18 and her 15-year-old girlfriend's parents pressed charges. Hunt’s mother, Kelley Hunt Smith, says the other set of parents have made it their mission to destroy her daughter’s life, all because they can’t accept that their child was in a same sex relationship.

The girl’s family petitioned the school board and got Katilyn expelled from school, weeks before graduation. This decision was made in spite of a judge declaring she could continue to attend school as long as she didn’t have contact with the girl.

The heartache for the Hunt family continues even with Kaitlyn forced out of the school. Steven said their younger child is also a student at Sebastian River High School and is forced to see words like “criminal,” “rapist” and “child abuser” written about her sister on the bathroom walls at school, despite his repeated request that the school to do something about it.

Kaitlyn has been offered a plea deal of house arrest for two years, plus a year of probation. This would delay her entering the next phase of her life and stay on her permanent adult record, limiting her career choices.

You know society is completely backwards when we start pressing charges on people for dating who they please. I've looked at other articles on the same thing and I can't see anything related to her breaking a law in any other way either.

[Zelda]

was quite shocked when I read this tbh. Pretty dreadful and I hope something picks up for her tbh

[Matthew]

It reminds me of that video on youtube not so long ago where two guys were totally in love but one of the guys parents hated that and tried to blame the other guy for everything..

[dbgtz]

She was charged with two felony counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a child 12 – 16 years of age =/= charged for being in a same-sex relationship.

[MKR&*42]

She was charged with two felony counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a child 12 – 16 years of age =/= charged for being in a same-sex relationship.

Yes because they can't directly charge someone for "being in a same-sex relationship" because that's outright discrimination. All they've done is come up with a 'disguised reason' and there isn't any evidence that she's engaged in sex with her at all...