#FreeKate’s Mom: ‘I Will NOT Have Anyone Ruin This for Family!!!!’

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Some catastrophes are surprising and others are entirely predictable. When the parents of Kaitlyn Hunt launched the “Free Kate” campaign to make their daughter America’s Most Famous Sex Offender™ . . .

Well, what part of very bad idea is so hard to understand?

Q. What kind of parents would make their teenage daughter the poster child for a crusade to legalize sex with 14-year-olds?
A. People who don’t think very clearly about the potential consequences of their actions.

On May 17, when Kelley Hunt Smith published her vindictive “Free Kate” Facebook rant, in which she named the 14-year-old’s parents nine times, and when Steve Hunt published his dishonest Change.org petition falsely portraying the case as an innocent “high school romance” between a 15-year-old and 17-year-old, three consequences could be predicted:

  1. The truth would eventually come out — Soliciting national attention to such a controversial situation created an incentive for people to start digging up facts. It took only a matter of days for it to become widely known that Kaitlyn Hunt’s birthday is Aug. 14, 1994. She was 18 before she began her senior year at Sebastian River High School. It was subsequently confirmed that the younger girl was born in April 1998 — i.e., she was 14 at the time of the criminal sex acts, and the age difference was 44 months, not a mere two years. There was no way the original misrepresentations were going to withstand national scrutiny, and Kaitlyn’s parents should have known that.
  2. Kaitlyn’s character would become an issue — In fact, the Hunt family made an issue of Kaitlyn’s character, bragging about how popular and successful she was, a “model child.” So when contradictory evidence emerged (“Beat her f–king ass, Emily! Beat her ass! Get that bitch!”), the Hunts had already forfeited any right to complain that this was irrelevant. If you claim that bigoted prosecutors are ruining the life of an innocent little angel, you can’t complain about evidence that your “angel” is a foul-mouthed tattooed she-hooligan.
  3. Bad causes attract bad people — It took about a week for the facts to catch up with the bogus “Free Kate” narrative, but once it became clear that she wasn’t a victim of homophobic persecution, whatever mainstream support the campaign ever had evaporated pretty quickly. Once the decent well-meaning supporters realized they’d been bamboozled, the Hunts were left with a hard core of supporters who were either (a) too emotionally committed to the glorious gay-rights rainbow dream to comprehend the ugly reality, or (b) creepy weirdos who want to legalize sex with jailbait.

Trying to ride herd on a crew like that wasn’t going to be easy and — surprise! surprise! surprise! — Kaitlyn Hunt’s parents weren’t prepared to deal with that reality, either. So there has been a (predictable) meltdown within the “Free Kate” Facebook group in recent days. Evidently at the urging of Kaitlyn’s lawyer, her mother presented administrators of the page with a confidentiality agreement they were required to sign, and four administrators resigned rather than to sign it. This had terrible repercussions for group morale, among other things, and Kelley Hunt Smith didn’t handle that too well:

For the past week or so, I’ve been hoarding up some weird stuff bubbling up from inside the “Free Kate” universe, and I’ll have more later. Meanwhile, the motion by Kaitlyn Hunt’s lawyer to have the allegedly “prejudiced” judge thrown off the case has, predictably, failed.

As I’ve said before: She should have taken the plea bargain.

 

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  4. It’s important to contrast (a) the phony facade Kaitlyn’s mother presents when pleading for sympathy with (b) her obscene vehemence when she thinks no one is looking. This seems to be a profoundly dysfunctional family, and Kaitlyn’s mother appears to be a main cause of the dysfunction.

  8. This dependent, introductory clause to a post killed me: “To respect the privacy of Kaitlyn & her family, . . .” Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to get a paper towel to wipe the coffee off my desk.

  9. “her obscene vehemence when she thinks no one is looking”

    Just imagine dinner conversation at that house.

  10. Ruin what exactly, Kelley? Hmmm? Your hope to cash in big perhaps? This woman is a lunatic.

  13. There’s a reason why plea bargains have become SOP at court. They relieve the system from having to prove that a scumbag acted like a scumbag and should be placed with other scumbags.
    Contrary to what people may think because of the Innocent Project, there ain’t too many innocent people get caught up in the court system. Sometimes they’re not guilty of a particular incident but they’re guilty as sin about a dozen others that they weren’t caught for.
    Thus ADA’s country wide make reasonable and tempting offers of punishment far better than what could be the result of a trial.
    And when you reject that plea bargain? Expect the System to exert it’s fullest effort to exact punishment for not only the crime but the time and cost to the system if you are found guilty and having wasted the court’s time.

    Katie’s about to find out that being an arrogant snot nosed kid is not a good way to start out in life and she’ll be finding out how bad it is from a prison cell.

  14. Here’s is a simple common-sense way of looking at the crime problem:

    Q. Who commits crime?
    A. Criminals.

    This is a truth so simple that it never seems to occur to intellectual “experts.” But having spent my adolescence amongst juvenile hoodlums, I very well understand that there is a distinct subset of offenders who, if they can get away with it, will commit every kind of crime that occurs to their devious little minds.

    A key element of law enforcement, therefore, is to identify core members of that criminal subset of the population and make sure that they get busted at every opportunity. The cops have to make clear to the bad guys: “We’re keeping an eye out for you, scumbag,” and never let those hoodlums think they can get away with anything.

  16. I will not have anyone ruin this for my family?

    What could that possibly mean? She’s planning on turning her daughter’s rendezvous with the Florida criminal court system into something she can market, and make money off of? She thinks her daughter being prosecuted for child sexual assault is some kind of opportunity?

  21. Kelley Hunt Smith need not worry about anyone ruining her family. She has done such a wonderful job on it herself. It truly is quite tragic. I keep wondering if these people are so completely unaware of the fact that their life-style is so out of touch with ‘normal’ or if they are just trying to save their seriously disturbed child. Then, I am forced to come to the conclusion they don’t really care. It is becoming more and more apparent that this is their fifteen minutes which they are hoping to cash in to make as much money as possible. It is quite tragic. If it weren’t so tragic and so many young lives were being ruined, it would make a great sitcom. I still can’t comprehend any normal, loving parent who would willingly align themselves with the dregs of society, unless they were the dregs of society themselves.

    SJR

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