Happy birthday, you're a sex offender! Florida girl charged upon turning 18, for dating a 15yo girl.

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15. Sebastian: ~90 miles SE of Orlando and ~150 miles north of Miami.

Looked it up on Google Maps. Apparently Sebastian is in the Treasure Coast, one of the sleepier parts of Florida away from the major metro areas or college towns.

Think Progress LGBT has a report on this story and links to a Facebook group written by Hunt's mother. Excerpts:

This girl came to my home, hang out with our family before sporting events at the school, etc. The girls would hang out together at after school activities, I was there, I saw the other girls father there several times, he saw them together as well, so I assumed her family was aware of it and didn’t have any issues either.

On Saturday February 16th our families world was shattered and our daughters nightmare begun. The police came to our home and arrested my daughter, put her in hand cuffs and we had no idea why. They refused to tell us anything at first because she had turned 18. Kate was ripped out of our arms, terrified, crying hysterically. My younger daughter was there at the time, my husband and myself, we were mortified. They finally told us she was being arrested on “probable cause”. I asked them probable cause of what, they said sexual battery on a person 12-16 years old. My heart dropped, I knew then that it had to have been her girlfriend's parents. These people never came to us as parents, never tried to speak to us, didn’t try to get the school involved to speak to us and tell us they had a problem with the girls dating, not one single word. Instead, they set out their vengeance and had my child arrested on FELONY charges.

So sad. She experienced the worst nightmare a parent could see.

We sat in front of the Judge again, and the judge ruled yet again that Kate could continue going to school, he didn’t feel like Kate was any threat at all. Those parents wouldn’t give up. They were out to destroy my daughter, they feel like my daughter “made” their daughter gay. They are bigoted, religious zeolites that see being gay as a sin and wrong, and they blame my daughter. Of course I see it 100% different. I don’t see or label these girls as gay. They are teenagers in high school experimenting with their sexuality, all teens do it in one form or another.

Unfortunately by the letter of the law, this girl has NO voice. Her parents can play the “victims” and ruin my daughters life. We have written letters through our attorneys trying to appeal to these people as parents, talk through it and come to some agreement or understanding but the parents refuse. These people's delusional stand, their hate and bigotry is tearing our daughter apart. Kate is having night terrors, she is in depression, its horrible to watch. Kate was the happiest child, always smiling, always happy and uplifting and now she has to push through the tears to get through every day. I need the communities help. I need people to stand and fight with me for my daughters life. Should the girls have made better choices, YES. I agree, but is this criminal, no.

What the hell? Why do we keep hearing these stories of how Florida's criminal justice system is such BULLSHIT? Let's see. George Zimmerman shoots Trayvon Martin to death, wait NEAR TWO MONTHS to arrest Zimmerman. Kiera Wilmot botches a science experiment at school and causes an explosion tho with no injury or property damage? FELONY CHARGES (thankfully the local state attorney dropped them). Two teenage girls in a consensual relationship but one of the girls' parents exploits a shitty "Romeo and Juliet" type of law in a passive-aggressive, vengeful fashion? SLAM. The legacy of Medicare fraudster Rick Scott's Florida right here.

I don't see any local news (like TCPalm.com, Indian River Press Journal) covering this story. But LGBT website Advocate.com also picked up this story.