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Showing Original Post only (View all)Kaitlyn Hunt's mother under attack by bloggers who say 'Free Kate' is all lies [View all]
Kaitlyn Hunt, the Florida teen charged with committing lewd and lascivious acts on her younger girlfriend, declined a plea deal on Friday, opting for a trial by jury next month. According to a May 26 New York Daily News report, the younger girls parents finally addressed the media, saying they warned the 18-year-old to stay away from their daughter. The Hunt family, especially Kates mother, Kelley Hunt Smith, are now being called liars.
Hunt-Smith went public with Kaitlyns legal troubles on May 17, one week before a decision on the plea deal was due. The Facebook group Free Kate was formed, which now has over 50K members, and the case got international attention.
Kate Hunt was an 18-year-old senior. Her girlfriend was a 14-year-old freshman at her high school. Misreporting in the case initially had the girls at 15 and 17, stating that the Smiths waited until Hunt was 18 to go to the police.
This false information didnt come from the Hunt family. Kaitlyns mom first explained the situation as:
Hunt-Smith went public with Kaitlyns legal troubles on May 17, one week before a decision on the plea deal was due. The Facebook group Free Kate was formed, which now has over 50K members, and the case got international attention.
Kate Hunt was an 18-year-old senior. Her girlfriend was a 14-year-old freshman at her high school. Misreporting in the case initially had the girls at 15 and 17, stating that the Smiths waited until Hunt was 18 to go to the police.
This false information didnt come from the Hunt family. Kaitlyns mom first explained the situation as:
more...
http://www.examiner.com/article/kaitlyn-hunt-s-mother-under-attack-by-bloggers-who-say-free-kate-is-all-lies
I bolded an interesting claim by Kaitlyn's mom, that I questioned whether or not it was true or yet another lie. It didn't take me long to find this post by Kaitlyn's dad:
http://www.xojane.com/issues/kaitlyn-hunt
While Kate was three years older than her girlfriend, they were peers. But when Kate's girlfriend's parents learned of their relationship, they went directly to the police to press charges without sharing their objections with Kate or her family.
snip...
This relationship occurred when they were both minors, and my daughter's girlfriend's parents waited until she turned 18 to arrest her.
That first quote has been contradicted by the younger girl's parents, and in all fairness could well be a case of "he said, she said". But the second quote is definitely false, and this definitely came from Kaitlyn Hunt's family.
Now they are blaming the media for bad reporting, just like they blamed the victim's parents for coming after Kate because it was a homosexual relationship. When will they stop blaming other people and take responsibility for a change?
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Kaitlyn Hunt's mother under attack by bloggers who say 'Free Kate' is all lies [View all]
shawn703
May 2013
OP
The whole thing stinks. If there is smoke then there is fire. I still think it has
southernyankeebelle
May 2013
#1
Well I really am not following it to closely. I just hope the girl doesn't go to jail and they
southernyankeebelle
May 2013
#49
I don't think so. They probably wouldn't have warned the older one more than once first....
Honeycombe8
May 2013
#7
if you're referring to Jerry Seinfeld his minor was over the age of consent
magical thyme
May 2013
#17
When sex between two kids is referred to as "lewd & lascivious", I stop reading & dismiss
pacalo
May 2013
#3
The law is the law. The 18 year old was asked more than once to leave the child alone....
Honeycombe8
May 2013
#5
I'm not about to defend the sneaking out at night; it's a parent's nightmare for the reasons
pacalo
May 2013
#15
I think it's about time to state the obvious. Romeo and Juliet are not actually people.
LisaL
May 2013
#104
How would her life be destroyed by a plea deal that included no jail time and no sex offender
LisaL
May 2013
#115
Then by your logic, a 20-year-old hooking up with a 14-year-old would be okay?
NaturalHigh
May 2013
#130
And of course people indignantly deny that there's any *hint* of bias at work.
nomorenomore08
May 2013
#21
No actual stats, but I can think of worse cases than that where nothing ever happened to the guy.
nomorenomore08
May 2013
#23
No, I'm putting my own interpretation to a somewhat ambiguous situation.
nomorenomore08
May 2013
#34
If you trust the word of Christian fundamentalists who think Kaitlyn "made their daughter gay"
nomorenomore08
May 2013
#135
at my high school, one of the girls in my class was having a relationship with a teacher,
HiPointDem
May 2013
#35
FYI...one blogger leading this charge about all this being a lie is a known far-right winger
davidn3600
May 2013
#37
18 and 14 is not child molestation...especially when it was just turned 18 and almost 15.
alphafemale
May 2013
#40
Never mind the fact that that is the only station--the only reporter even, that they will talk
ScreamingMeemie
May 2013
#68
How well did you listen to your parents when they told you to stay away from someone?
we can do it
May 2013
#159
I don't see any evidence that parents of a 14 year old didn't try to control their child.
LisaL
May 2013
#60
It's their child, not yours. These people are following the law. They are fully within their rights
LisaL
May 2013
#96
The problem is Kate picked up the 14 year old at night without the girls parents knowledge
dkf
May 2013
#152
Now there's a charming euphemism for "an adult having sex with a child".
Donald Ian Rankin
May 2013
#84
What vast majority of states? And how many years difference are we talking about in this
LisaL
May 2013
#113
Frankly, I don't care if people know what it is like to be 18 or not.
AnalystInParadise
May 2013
#162
High school seniors dont get arrested for having relationships with freshmen
roughrider101
May 2013
#136