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A Florida high school student was expelled and arrested after she continued to carry on a same-sex relationship with a minor student after she turned 18.

Kaitlyn Hunt was arrested in February at the behest of her 15-year-old girlfriend’s parents and charged with two felony counts of lewd and lascivious battery of a child 12 to 16 years old.

A judge ruled that Hunt could still go to her Sebastian, Fla., school if she did not have contact with the 15-year-old. Unhappy with that decision, the girlfriend’s parents also made an appeal to the school board, and Hunt was then expelled from Sebastian River High School just weeks before her graduation.

Her mother, Kelley Hunt Smith, claims State Attorney Brian Workman offered her daughter a plea deal that she has until Friday to accept or face trial. The plea deal includes “two years house arrest and one year probation.”

Her father, Steven R. Hunt, said the school disapproved of the relationship from the beginning. Hunt reportedly had good grades and participated in cheerleading, chorus and basketball. She was voted “most school spirited.” But when she began dating another girl from the basketball team, her coach dropped her citing that the relationship would cause “drama.”

Hunt’s family started a petition on Change.org asking people to “Stop the prosecution of 18 year old girl in a same-sex relationship” and calling it a “cruel waste of our taxes.” The petition, addressed to the Indian River County State Attorney’s Office, has more than 28,500 signatures so far.

“They are out to destroy my daughter, because they feel like she ‘made’ their daughter gay,” Smith said. “They see being gay as wrong and they blame my daughter. Of course, I see it 100 percent differently. I don’t see or label these girls as gay. They are teenagers in high school experimenting with their sexuality – with mutual consent. And even if their daughter is gay, who cares? She is still their daughter.”

Some other information: the 15 year old’s mother initially said that the relationship was fine as long as it was consensual. But the minute Kaitlyn turned 18, she was filing charges against her. If found guilty, she faces jail time or house arrest and will be labeled as sex offender for the rest of her life.

While the intentions behind this are BLATANTLY homophobic in nature, please remember the mother DID admit that these children, 18 and 15, DID have one sexual encounter. YES it was consensual, but it is still illegal. Keep that in mind with your arguments.

It’s unbelievable that this would be illegal though. There are merely three years apart between them (or closer to two and a half). There are laws here that prevent people like this from being arrested just for being intimate with their damn partner. They only did this because it’s two girls, a boy and a girl would have gotten away with it easily.

There are couples here, male/female mainly, that are usually about a year or less apart in age. To be more specific 17 and 18. The parents of the younger partner, who is usually female, file charges against the older partner, who is usually male, and pin them as sex offenders just because they do not like their child’s partner. Courts can be lenient, especially if the age difference is just by a couple of months but even if not convicted, the life of the older partner is tainted with the conviction.

I find that incredibly stupid. Of course you wouldn’t allow a 13 year old and an 18 year old to be together, but if the age difference is reasonable and it is consensual, I don’t see why people make such a fret out of it. 

The real problem here is that the minor is under 16. Once the minor hits 16, the party of majority age just needs to be under 24. Because Florida. #iamnotyourlawyer See: § 794.05 of the Florida Statutes.  

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Come on Lacey by corbiess on Flickr.

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“My dog has a pet rock.”

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“There, there, ugly bald puppy.”

CHANNELWOOD IRL. #myst

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IMG_1445 by e88ccman on Flickr.

Those legs! That’s kind of the shape I’m going for with BB’s legs, except very loosely bc his hair is so thin. #awwpoorguy

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My drawing for the Urban Graphic Big Draw postcard lotto is, predictably, a bad pun.

Cat-ctus.

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In 2012, I worked with Olivari Olive oil to create a year-long series of “How To…” cartoons for Facebook. Here’s one of them.