UPDATE: Kaitlyn Hunt’s Bond Revoked; Evidence ‘Overwhelming,’ Judge Says

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Kaitlyn Hunt appears at Tuesday hearing.

UPDATE 3:10 p.m. ET: Elliot Jones reports at WPTV-TV:

Circuit Court Judge Robert Pegg revoked bond for Kaitlyn Hunt, and she’ll remain jailed until a trial, that’s so far unscheduled.
The judge also added a new charge to her court record — transmitting material harmful to a minor by electronic equipment, a third-degree felony.
“The evidence is overwhelming,” Pegg said in ordering Hunt held in jail without bail.
A tearful Kaitlyn Hunt, in a bright orange jail jumpsuit and shackles, periodically glanced at her father in the Indian River County courtroom, as Sheriff’s Detective Jeremy Sheppard testified about new evidence in her teen sex case having to do with being in contact with the victim via electronic equipment.

UPDATE 2:05 p.m. ET: Bond was revoked after Judge Robert Pegg described evidence of Kaitlyn Hunt’s violation of her pretrial release as “overwhelming.” An arraignment date was set for the new charges of transmitting “material harmful to minors,” and Hunt was escorted out of the courtroom and back to the Indian River County Jail.

UPDATE 1:50 p.m. ET: Kaitlyn Hunt was handcuffed and shackled and wearing an orange jail uniform when she appeared in court today, facing new felony charges of violating her bond and sending illegal graphic sex materials to her underage girlfriend.

Detective Jeremy Shepherd testified about the explicit photos and video Hunt sent to the minor, who is now 15. He said he was contacted on Aug. 6 after the younger girl’s father found an iPod that Hunt had given the victim in March. This was used to transmit more than 20,000 text messages, photos and video. Detective Shepherd said that while the explicit video that shows Hunt masturbating only shows the defendant from the waist down, he was able to identify her from her pierced bellybutton and tattoos.

Detective Jeremy Shepherd testifies at Tuesday’s hearing.

Judge Robert Pegg listens to testimony in Tuesday’s hearing.

UPDATE 12:55 p.m. ET: According to the court docket, prosecutors have filed a new felony charge of “Transmission of material harmful to minors to a minor by electronic device or equipment” (847.0138).

Kaitlyn Hunt has been reminded why they call it ‘jailbait’

Today is the bond revocation hearing in Vero Beach:

Accused Florida sex offender Kaitlyn Hunt returned to jail Monday night prior to a hearing today in which prosecutors will argue that her bond should be revoked and that the 19-year-old former cheerleader should be kept in custody until her trial on felony charges of having sex with a 14-year-old girl.
Hunt, whose case has attracted nationwide media attention, voluntarily turned herself in at the Indian River County Jail about 9 p.m. Monday night. She had been out on $5,000 bond since her February arrest, but last week prosecutors filed a stunning document alleging that Hunt had repeatedly violated the court-ordered terms of her pretrial release by contacting the victim in the case, who is now 15.
Ron Barnett of Barnett Bail Bonds in Vero Beach told the Palm Beach Post that it was Hunt’s decision to return to jail pending today’s 1 p.m. hearing before Circuit Court Judge Robert Pegg. . . .

Please read the whole thing at ViralRead. I’ll be updating later with news of today’s hearing, which should be interesting.

What is also interesting — and thanks to Jeanette Runyon for all her work in following this — is how Kaitlyn Hunt’s supporters, in order to argue for their lesbian heroine’s victimhood, find themselves obliged to demonize the parents of the younger girl:

In this, her supporters echo the arguments originally made in a May 17 Facebook post by Kaitlyn’s mother, Kelley Hunt Smith, who blamed the younger girl’s parents: “They are trying to send an innocent young girl to prison because they are full of hate and bigotry.”

Parents who are trying to raise their daughter right, and who expect Florida to enforce its own law — which sets age of consent at 16 — are being scapegoated by weirdos who want to make gay rights an argument to declare “open season” on 14-year-olds.

 

 


386 comments

  1. A number of things jump out here. First, abortion is irrelevant to the conversation and only misdirects the argument. Second, what’s not asked is how these “children,” by definition come to believe they are “gay.” Who is doing the convincing of a child who may be different, that “oh, you’re obviously gay.” Third, we are told by eminent worthies that sexual preference is social construct. (BTW, in spite of the breathless media reports, there has been no discovery of a “gay” gene. Indeed, if you accept Darwin, such a gene would have been bred out of existence millenia ago before any religion appeared on the scene to make it a taboo.) In any event, if sexual preference is a social construct, it can be changed–again, by definition. So, why should the state intervene to deny parents, upon whom the responsibility exists to rear their children and who have rights to direct their child’s upbringing, the right to seek help for a child who most probably was misled by state sponsored peddlers of some misbegotten diversity?

  2. Oh, you mean you support the child victim who was sexually assaulted in a school bathroom? The child victim that was stalked with hundreds of text messages and lewd media messages per day?

    I agree with you completely. The child victim didn’t deserve this, a large group supports her, and what happened to her is wrong in all sense [sic].

  3. Dear heaven above, these people are delusional. I am watching #FreeKate, and some of them are still flat out lying. For example, this gem from “RCZ”:
    “Both girls violated no contact order detective testifies 15yo lied to protect Kate, dad took over questioning GF in lieu of police.” No, you mental midget, the detective that you have spent the last few months defaming and cyberstalking did not say that. The minor could not violate the protective order because she was not bound by the protective order. These people can’t think, can’t spell, can’t pull their heads out of their asses. Short of a miracle, we are doomed.

  4. What is wrong, precisely? The law? If so, why? The deliberate refusal to follow a judge’s instructions? The deliberate refusal to accept the wishes of the victim’s parents? The limitations on adult/non-adult interactions? By all means, correct me if I’m wrong, but I wager your assertions are based on your personal emotions. Know, that the moment these decisions become driven by feelings, is the moment the law ceases to exist and no one knows what to do or not do. Your fate is in the hands of people who just might be having a bad day or merely feel different than you do.

  7. Coming soon from Hollywood !!
    Kaitlyn Hunt in a remake of the classic 80’s film…..
    Reform School Girls.

    Pick your cast !!

  9. You would have thunk that the first round of charges would have been a heady reminder of the illegality of the situation. Oh that, and her own explicit admission of wrong doing broadcast over a public carriage service.

    One wonders if the #freekate supporters (Stat. Rape Inc.) are implicit in this crime for trying to provide legitimacy to the illegitimate.

  10. Too bad can’t get me none of that, even America’s bad boy knows you don’t mess with jail bait. Kate’s the one with a problem but as strong willed as Kelley seems to be she could have reigned her daughter in. Too bad.

  12. We all occasionally adopt lost causes but most of us have the good sense to admit a mistake and move on. The tenacity with which the left cling onto illegal and immoral causes is the real worry.

    The message is that if you cross them you will be crucified.

  13. Many of us don’t ‘deserve’ the circumstances that life throws our way but we’re mature enough to handle them without playing the victim or blaming someone else.

    Ms Hunt, however, has no one to blame but herself. Life didn’t throw her a curve ball; her situation is self inflicted, aided and abetted by her parents and egged on by Stat. Rape Inc. aka #freekate.

    You my friend are culpable in her plight.

  14. Detective Shepherd said that while the explicit video that shows Hunt masturbating only shows the defendant from the waist down, he was able to identify her from her pierced bellybutton and tattoos.

    I’d point out here that the identification of the owner of the genitals in question does not matter; it is the transmission of said material which constitutes the crime. The crime would be the same if the genitals depicted were attached to were Sydney Leathers or Hillary Clinton.

  15. But sexual predation is fundamental to the LGBTQWTF coalition of deviance. It is a recruitment strategy.

  16. STOP! This was bad enough, now I will think of Hillary Clinton every time I read about this case! Of course, one of the morals to this story is, “see, I told you no good would come of tattoos and body piercings!”

  17. From the beginning, Kate was a sick girl; her parents and friends supported her deviancy. This is what happens when you call a sexual perversion normal.—when in fact it is ABNORMAL.

  19. Well, Kate was treated as if her acts were not wrong: the homosexuality, the pedophilia, disrespect towards the former 14 years old parents…this is what happens when you are taught to be above the law.

  22. “Short of a miracle, we are doomed.”

    Ever see the movie Idiocracy? It’s pretty much a documentary of our future.

  24. Love the tears in the photo. Bout time she had a reality check that she should not be given preferential treatment for being a lesbian. Chick is an Adult and should be treated like one!

  26. Crocodile tears. Not one actual tear was shed from what I could see. She used a tissue for dabbing, but she was dabbing at dry skin.

  27. Even after she threatened her partner, had sex with her when she was 14, and disrespected the wishes of the girls’ parents?

    Immoral!

  29. I can hardly wait for the day the GBLT community dusts off Jeffrey Dahmer as their newest poster boy for a normal healthy libido, victimized by the h8erz.

  30. How is the 15 year old a “victim” if she engaged in over 20k texts with Hunt? Are you really going to say that at this point in time after all the trouble their relationship has caused that she didn’t know any better and was unable to say no? REALLY? And Jeanette Runyon really needs to get a life and seek help. Anyone that devotes this much attention to this issue and has no journalistic stake in it(even though McCain’s obsession with Hunt is creepy and so is he)definitely has problems(I can just imagine what they are?) and not much else to do.

  31. Go back to your “Free Kate” page — they’ll quickly feed into your amorality and delusions of grandeur. You seem to not understand the concept of consent laws and rights of children. Stop victimizing the real victim who is *not* your heroic sex offender, Kaitlyn Hunt.

  32. And you support of pedophilia is powered by what? An emotional attachment to an underage child? Unrequited LUV? Or is it simply that you are an immoral ped loving freak? Either way, I’ll stand and cheer as you pass by on the express to Hell.

  34. Because it’s against the law to have sex with a minor, no matter what they say. It is against the law for prison guards to have sex with prisoners, no matter what they say. The layman’s term is statutory rape. It is designed to protect individuals who have less legal and social power from sexual predation.

  35. Correct. I assume this ignoramus is sticking his fingers in his ears to the truth, so there was no point in elaborating further. 🙂

  37. Doesn’t sound like Kaitlyn’s very smart.

    That’s no excuse for participating in the lie that the 14-year-old, who appears to have actively and intentionally participated in the bail violations, is a “victim,” though.

  38. F*ck off and die pedophile supporter and probable pedophile. Haven’t we told you enough you are a mis-informed and evil assclown?
    EDITED to add: Known concern troll, ignore.

  40. The short answer to your question is the law defines her as a victim. The longer answer is that the research shows devastating emotional damage to the underage participants in these sorts of situations, even where there is nominally “consent.” The more facts which are brought forth in this situation, the more Ms. Hunt appears to demonstrate the rather classic set of predator behaviors. And the predator ALWAYS tries to get the victim to recant or minimize what occured. Some of us have dealt with these situations countless times and recognize evil when we see it.

  41. Minors, like prisoners and people who are mentally incapacitated in some way, cannot consent as a matter of law. This protects the weak and vulnerable who have lower degrees of social and legal power, as well as experience and in many cases intelligence. The 14 year old could have gone and bought a Ferrari, and the contract would be null and void for the same reason.

  42. Typical. When the opposition has no argument, they throw their sick obsession on the one who is on to their scheme. If there is any obsession McCain and any civil minded person has against the Hunts, it is with exposing the truth from the lies.

  43. ” Are you really going to say that at this point in time”

    There’s a reason there’s “Rape-Rape” (Per Whoopi), and other categories.

    Such as statutory rape. Which this is. And remains.

    Aside from the fact that Hunt was ordered by the court to cease all contact, and specifically went out of her way to keep clandestine contact – as many abusers are wont to do. (This isn’t new, by any means.)

    And she agreed to that, rather than stay in jail, and immediately violated that agreement, which in itself has criminal consequences.

    These latest developments demonstrate that the original “Hate” was correct, and she should not be “Free”d.

  44. What do you say to the statutory rape victim with 2 black eyes?
    Nothing, she’s been told twice already!

    … Problem is, I think you think that’s a real answer, not a really, really dark joke.

    The 14/15 year old is by definition a victim, no matter how “actively” or “participatory” she is.

    What this demonstrates is – even as Kate apparently dated other people – she wanted to keep tabs on, and control the young girl. Make sure she’d lie for her – and make sure she knew what lies she was telling, so they could make sure their stories jibed.

    There’s a lot of terms for that, but none of them are especially helpful to Hunt’s case.

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