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Instead of prepping for graduation and prom, Kaitlyn Hunt, 18, is fighting two felony counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a child 12 – 16 years of age, after having a relationship with another teen girl.

Hunt was a highly respected student at Florida’s Sebastian River High School with good grades and participation in cheerleading, basketball and chorus but this all changed as she started dating a girl she met on the basketball team, at the beginning of the school year.

According to Kaitlyn’s father, Steven R. Hunt, Jr., the relationship caused his daughter unfair treatment at the school from the start. Hunt says his daughter was dropped from the basketball team because the coach feared a same-sex relationship would bring unwanted “drama.”
Then this got even worse when police came to their home in February to arrest Kaitlyn.

The Examiner reports:

Kaitlyn was 18 and her 15-year-old girlfriend’s parents pressed charges. Hunt’s mother, Kelley Hunt Smith, says the other set of parents have made it their mission to destroy her daughter’s life, all because they can’t accept that their child was in a same sex relationship.

Then the girl’s family petitioned the school board and got Katilyn expelled from school, just weeks before graduation. This decision was made in spite of a judge declaring she could continue to attend school as long as she didn’t have contact with the young lady she was involved with.

The Kelley family took to Facebook to bring attention the entire story, saying:

“They are out to destroy my daughter, because they feel like she ‘made’ their daughter gay. They see being gay as wrong and they blame my daughter. Of course, I see it 100% 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.”

Kaitlyn’s father says their younger child is also a student at Sebastian River High School and is forced to see words like “criminal,” “rapist” and “child abuser” written about her sister on the bathroom walls at school, despite his repeated request for the school to do something about it.

SMH!

Kaitlyn has been offered a plea deal of house arrest for two years, plus a year of probation. This would delay her life plans and would stay on her permanent adult record, limiting her career choices.

What a sucky situation. Hopefully a fair resolution is reached soon.

SOURCE: The Examiner