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Kaitlyn and the girl started their relationship at the beginning of the school year, and they played on the school’s basketball team together. Kaitlyn’s mom says the girl’s parents knew about the relationship.
But suddenly, Kaitlyn was dropped from the basketball team. Then in February she was arrested and faced with a petition for expulsion because of her relationship.
The petition didn’t work at first, but Kaitlyn’s mother stated in a Facebook post, “After two separate judges ruled that Kaitlyn could finish her senior year with her peers, her girlfriend’s parents appealed to the Indian River County School Board, who expelled Kaitlyn sent her to the alternative school.”
Kaitlyn is currently facing 15 years in jail and would have to register as a sex offender, but she has been offered a plea deal of two years of house arrest and a year probation. Kaitlyn’s mother is working to get the charges dropped completely. She’s even set up a petition to stop the prosecution.
Kaitlyn’s mom believes that this whole ordeal is because the girlfriend’s parents don’t approve of their daughter being gay and that they’re using Kaitlyn as a scapegoat, essentially. It makes my heart so sad that Kaitlyn is being faced with such serious offenses because she had a younger girlfriend, who according to her mother, consented to everything: “Kaitlyn’s girlfriend denies that Kaitlyn ever pressured her and is adamant that their relationship is entirely consensual.”
This is a sad, sad example of homophobia in one of its worst forms. But age of consent is a serious thing. The age of consent in Florida is 18, which Kaitlyn’s younger girlfriend is not even close to. However, I honestly think that if Kaitlyn were a guy, she wouldn’t be facing these charges. I think the parents wouldn’t have even blinked that their daughter was dating an older boy.
I feel like age of consent is thought of as just something to keep teenagers from having sex, but it’s actually a really big deal and this case proves as much. I have to wonder though if the age of consent was even discussed between these girls. I know when I was a teen, I didn’t know what the age of consent was in my state. Fortunately, I fell within the age of consent when I did have sex. But what if I didn’t? My parents could have had my older boyfriend arrested!
I personally hope that Kaitlyn gets through this, but do me a favor and find out what the age of consent is in your state just to protect yourself and your partner from unwanted legal issues.
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What is truly bothering to me is how the Relationship was known to the parents and it was a CONSENSUAL relationship. Even though the age gap(3 freaking years) The younger girl is at a good and smart age to know what it is to be in a consensual relationship. Also because the Parent knew about the info of the relationship A LONG TIME AGO they should have allready tried to stop/paused the relationship until their child is 17/18 years old.
Kaitlyn’s parents have spread alot of misinformation about this case. Kaitlyn turned 18 in August just before her senior year and the two girls started seeing each other in November when the younger girl was a 14 year-old freshman. It was always and adult / underage relationship.
Lots of 18 year-old guys have gone to jail for having intimate relationships with their “consenting” 14-year-old girlfreinds, so I don’t see why Kaitlyn Hunt should get special treatment. Both the girls have admited to the intimate relationship, so I don’t see that the facts are in question at all.
Is 15 years in jail and a life-time on the sex offender list too harsh a treatment for intimacy between two teenagers. Maybe so. Then let Florida change the laws so that that it applys to everybody. Not just let off Kate because she is a white, honor student with big doe-like eyes. It should also apply to less attractive 18 year-old dropouts males too. I don’t even think that the authorities should have given her the plea deal they offered if they havn’t extended it to males in the same situation.
It’s seriously only a 3-year age gap, and they’re both still in high school, if she had still been 17 it wouldn’t even be an issue. This isn’t like someone seriously older, in college or even finished with it, dating a high school student. This is the case of a totally fine relationship between two high schoolers, where one happened to be 18. This is bull, she didn’t do anything wrong. There have been plenty of cases of hetero relationships where one of them turned 18 before the other, and it was never an issue. What if they had started dating a year before? Would they have been expected to just break up as soon as Kaitlyn hit her 18th birthday?
Seriously fifteen years for consenting I could fathom a one year house arrest with one year probation., sure she was too young. I myself am completely against same sex arrangements, it’s apart of my beliefs. That said, this is about a consenting issue, and proper measures should have been in place to make sure Kaitlyn was protected as too for the other younger girl. I don’t see this as a gay attack from a prosecuting point of view, the other girls parents i don’t know possibly. Someone just doesn’t make someone gay, it’s either in your DNA or it isn’t, I don’t really know. The problem mainly I have with this is the length of supposed felony, fifteen years. She’s 18 now and will be 33 when released assuming they don’t take the one year with one of probation. Where do they come up with these arbitrary numbers? They’ll let a murder free in 2-5 years is it just me or is there something seriously wrong with the judicial system? But that’s getting into another slightly different topic. For me i hope she learns from what she’s done and people can move on from this, but don’t hinder her life over something most people view as trivial. Let the punishment suit the crime. Our judicial system’s lack one thing that is consistent, a balanced set of laws.
Excuse me? You just said “I’m against same sex arrangements”. Let me tell you that that is nothing but prejudice, and no excuse for prejudice is a valid one. All it does is hurt people.
No one can speak of the parent’s motives for certain except the parents, but regardless, Kaitlyn did break the law. And it may well have been the same if it was an older guy. There are hundreds of similar cases withe heterosexual couples. Age of consent laws are there to protect minors from being pushed into decisions that they are not yet mentally and emotionally capable of understanding. This concept is probably no different for homosexual couples. It is important to obey theses laws, even if they may seem meaningless at the time. If the parents are doing it only because their child is a lesbian, I can not approve of their motives (and this is coming from someone who is very conservative, too) because it will likely harm both girls psychologically, possibly causing self-esteem issues. That being said, I do believe Kaitlyn should be prosecuted for violating age of consent laws, which are there to prevent similar emotional and psychological damage.
That’s horrible! Poor Kaitlyn, she didn’t even do anything wrong. Her girlfriend obviously agreed to the relationship and whatever else. Seriously people, homophobia needs to stop. When Cherie Currie (the lead singer of The Runaways) was like 17 she was kidnapped by a 30 year old man, taken to a filthy abandoned house, forced to take drugs, violently raped and almost killed. The guy only got one year in jail. That’s it. Nothing else. Yet this poor girl is possibly facing 15 years in jail? People suck.