Kaitlyn Hunt's parents lied

[Ms. Toad]

70. The affidavit does not identify when Hunt said they started dating

It identifies what the police understood Hunt said about when the sexual relationship started (the last paragraph ONLY is what they understood Hunt to have said - the rest is what the police understood the other girl to have said). (And there is a distinction between a direct statement and a report by someone else of what they have heard - I have been involved in enough police interviews and reviewing subsequent affidavits to know that there are often differences.)

So - is your statement (about what the affidavit says) a lie because you messed up a few details? I am assuming you did not create this OP to intentionally mislead people, but merely accidentally misstated what the affidavit says because you have strong feelings about this matter - as I think it is safe to assume Kaitlyn's parents have.

You are talking about statements made by parents who were not involved first hand in the relationship - so they don't know directly when the friendship started, moved to dating, or became sexual. They are trying to generate support for their daughter because, frankly, when the law is unfair sometimes public support creates justice when the law does not - and there is a pretty short window in which to generate that support. Whenever anyone is stating someone else's story it is very easy for mistakes to be introduced. I suspect you have been in family situations where family members describing the same series of events fall all over each other correcting minor details that they each recall differently. Those kind of minor variations in details don't make the stories lies - which has the flavor of an intent to mislead (which you certainly pick up on in your OP).

Further, if you watched the family statements from early on, you must be aware that as they learned of errors in how the story is told (their own or those introduced by repetition or a real life version of "Telephone&quot , they have done their best to correct them. Both the mother and the uncle (that I am aware of) have issued statements trying to clarify incorrect statements (regardless of their source). And - many of the stories linked to as being evidence of their manipulative intent are not sites they have direct control over.