boutons_deux
05-19-2013, 12:35 PM
gum (http://thinkprogress.org/author/judd/) on May 18, 2013 at 8:27 pm
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A Florida family says their 18-year-old daughter was charged with a felony and expelled from high school as a result of a consensual, same-sex relationship with another student.
Kaitlyn Hunt started dating a female classmate at the beginning of the school year when she was 17 and the girl she was dating was about three years younger. According to an account posted to Facebook by Kaitlyn’s mother (https://www.facebook.com/groups/192262314259128/doc/192326077586085/), in February, shortly after Kaitlyn turned 18, she was arrested on felony charges at the behest of her girlfriend’s parents. The specific crime was “sexual battery on a person 12-16 years old.”
Kaitlyn’s mother believes the charges were motivated by anti-gay animus:
They were out to destroy my daughter, they feel like my daughter “made” their daughter gay. They are bigoted, religious zeolites [sic] that see being gay as a sin and wrong, and they blame my daughter.
But Kaitlyn’s problems did not end there. Her girlfriends’s parents appealed to the school board and had her expelled from Sebastian River High School (https://www.facebook.com/groups/192262314259128/doc/192326077586085/). Kaitlyn’s mom reports that the State Attorney, Brian Workman, has offered Kaitlyn a plea deal “of two years house arrest and one year probation (https://www.facebook.com/groups/192262314259128/doc/192326077586085/).” Kaitlyn has until next Friday to accept the plea deal or face a trial.
The family has started a petition (http://www.change.org/petitions/indian-river-county-state-attorney-s-office-stop-the-prosecution-of-an-18-year-old-girl-in-a-same-sex-relationship) calling on the state attorney to drop the charges against Kaitlyn.
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/05/18/2033281/florida-teen-expelled-charged-with-felony-over-lesbian-relationship/
Repug law enforcement in Repug Florida is as ugly, moralistic, vindictive, judgemental as it is everywhere.
"arrested on felony charges"
"plea deal of two years house arrest and one year probation (https://www.facebook.com/groups/192262314259128/doc/192326077586085/)."
WTF?
http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/hunt.jpg (http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/hunt.jpg)
A Florida family says their 18-year-old daughter was charged with a felony and expelled from high school as a result of a consensual, same-sex relationship with another student.
Kaitlyn Hunt started dating a female classmate at the beginning of the school year when she was 17 and the girl she was dating was about three years younger. According to an account posted to Facebook by Kaitlyn’s mother (https://www.facebook.com/groups/192262314259128/doc/192326077586085/), in February, shortly after Kaitlyn turned 18, she was arrested on felony charges at the behest of her girlfriend’s parents. The specific crime was “sexual battery on a person 12-16 years old.”
Kaitlyn’s mother believes the charges were motivated by anti-gay animus:
They were out to destroy my daughter, they feel like my daughter “made” their daughter gay. They are bigoted, religious zeolites [sic] that see being gay as a sin and wrong, and they blame my daughter.
But Kaitlyn’s problems did not end there. Her girlfriends’s parents appealed to the school board and had her expelled from Sebastian River High School (https://www.facebook.com/groups/192262314259128/doc/192326077586085/). Kaitlyn’s mom reports that the State Attorney, Brian Workman, has offered Kaitlyn a plea deal “of two years house arrest and one year probation (https://www.facebook.com/groups/192262314259128/doc/192326077586085/).” Kaitlyn has until next Friday to accept the plea deal or face a trial.
The family has started a petition (http://www.change.org/petitions/indian-river-county-state-attorney-s-office-stop-the-prosecution-of-an-18-year-old-girl-in-a-same-sex-relationship) calling on the state attorney to drop the charges against Kaitlyn.
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/05/18/2033281/florida-teen-expelled-charged-with-felony-over-lesbian-relationship/
Repug law enforcement in Repug Florida is as ugly, moralistic, vindictive, judgemental as it is everywhere.
"arrested on felony charges"
"plea deal of two years house arrest and one year probation (https://www.facebook.com/groups/192262314259128/doc/192326077586085/)."
WTF?