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UPDATE 2:05 p.m. ET: Bond was revoked after Judge Robert Pegg described evidence of Kaitlyn Hunt’s violation of her pretrial release as “overwhelming.”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

  2. Oh, I understand the laws just fine and I also understand people like you who follow the letter of the law to the tee regardless of spirit and common sense. Sorry, but if a 15 year old engages in 20k text messages with a 19 year old even after the 19 year old has criminal charges pending over their relationship then 15 year old is no longer a victim and is a willing participant.

  4. Of course, I raise a common sense objection to this whole fiasco and I’m in “support of pedophilia”. Fuck you, moron. You’re already in hell.

  5. I never once implied I’ve followed every law to the tee, but I certainly don’t sexually abuse children, nor would I condone it. Unlike yourself.

  6. What’s interesting about this desire to focus on the victim’s conduct, is that is the “blame the victim” mentality which the feminist normally decry. The philosophical inconsistency and moral relevancy is positively breathtaking! I await Amanda Marcotte’s denunciation of same in 3 …2…1…

  9. This guy’s a stupid fool. It’s crap advice like this that ended up putting Kate in jail. Way to go Leon.

  11. My sick obsession? With what? Justice? Sorry, but this is the first time I’ve even heard of this case since August and I personally believe that once a 15 year old engages in 20k texts even after all the trouble the initial relationship has caused then she no longer can be called “a victim”. Sorry that raising a perfectly valid objection to this whole thing has you flying off the handle and making accusations toward me but that isn’t a promotion of said behavior and rather that the other young woman needs to take personal responsibility for her part in this.

  13. If Kaitlyn were smart (ha!) and not listened to her imbecile, criminal parents and the rest of the Free Kate buffoons, she would have taken the initial plea deal and moved on.

  14. The texts were initiated by the perp’s providing the means of communication. I say what I said before. This is classic predator behavior. Predators try to get the victim to remain silent or, barring that, to recant or minimize the abuse. It happens EVERY TIME.

  15. So, according to this logic, Kate should also get a “pass” for sending pornographic images to the minor, because of “consent.” What other crimes should she get a pass on?

  18. I’m sure you’re quite used to shoving your own fingers up your ass along with about anything else you can jam up there, so why don’t you tell me?

  21. Justice? Where? Did you read the text that sick Kate sent to the girl? And does it occur to you that she was ordered not to send her anything or get in contact with her?

    Do facts mean anything to you or are you going to use ‘love’ as an excuse here?

  22. It does not appear to me that you want justice. A 15 year old, already under the influence of an older, persuasive person, is not in a position to exercise responsibility.

    All you appear to want is to minimize the crime that has occurred.

  25. If Kos found it repugnant, Dianna, that would be interesting because that sorry excuse for a man is repugnant in everything he does.
    Perhaps there is hope for him?……nah.

  26. Absolutely. Stat. Rape Inc. (aka #freekate) are totally culpable in making Kate feel she was bulletproof. In this respect Kate is their victim.

  27. Sometimes, Ryan, people do stupid things. And are embarrassed. Sometimes people do stupid things and get injured. And sometimes, people do felony stupid. And they are rightly put in prison for it.

    This Kate Hunt is felony stupid. No clue in that empty head that text messaging could become evidence? No clue that her behavior would get her back in jail?

    This kind of abject stupidity needs punishment.

  29. I am sure the young girl who is the victim will be made to take responsibility for her part in this. So let the law hang Kate, as she deserves, and let the young girls’ parents discipline their child as is their RIGHT.

  30. True, but they still believe they have to keep this facet of their movement under the radar. They thought, I’m sure that this had the potential of being breakthrough case for their cause, but methinks they soon discovered they were dealing with ignorant arseholes.

  31. Go fuck yourself, Nixon.

    A “pedophile” is someone who has (or wants to have, or tries to have) sex with children. I am not one, nor do I support them.

    Children are reasonably defined as people who are not adults — not capable of exercising full responsibility for their actions, making their own choices, etc.

    The key word is REASONABLY.

    It is possible that the 14-year-old in question is, in fact a child. I don’t know. Neither do you.

    If she is in fact a child, then a prosecutor should be able to prove that claim to a judge’s and/or jury’s satisfaction, just like a prosecutor has to do when aiming to “try a minor as an adult,” or as a minor has to do when seeking emancipation.

    On the basis of the KNOWN evidence, the 14-year-old is an active, consensual participant in these goings on. Anyone who thinks she’s incapable of deciding to be so should be required to prove it, not just dance around screaming “BUT THE LEGISLATURE DREW A NUMBER OUT OF A HAT!” before sending anyone to jail.

  32. Notice how the left agenda is always aimed at destroying stable families. Kate’s family is already FUBAR so they fit in well with the leftist agenda. The victim’s family, which by all accounts is a close loving traditional family, is at odds with the left so it must be destroyed by all means possible.

  33. Just a thought – the person who knowingly committed a crime is Kaitlyn Hunt. How about we don’t come anywhere close to blaming the victim?

    Among other things, she’s under the influence of an older, evidently persuasive, person whose sole interest seems to be manipulating her behavior. This has been going on for almost a year. What makes you think this would not have a terrible effect upon the younger girl, the victim?

    No, her consent or activity are irrelevant.

  34. Utter horse manure.

    About as credible as Christie using the opinion of psychologists to regulate the practice of medicine.

    What part of parent don’t you get?

  35. Since the younger girl’s identity has been protected because of her age, how do you know she even has the mental capacity to engage in this type of relationship? For all you know the younger girl is a special needs student that can’t distinguish between right and wrong. Would your opinion of her complicity be any different if this were the case?

  36. Is this the latest “Free Kate” talking point – “Oh, the victim is a willing participant! If she wasn’t before, she is now, so…a 19 year old isn’t able to bear the consequences of her action, but a 15 year old is mature enough to consent!”

    Does that make the slightest sense? If so, how?

  37. It’s not misdirection, it is corollary.

    If one is an acceptable act of governance, then the other should be likewise.

    That it is not points up a logical inconsistency.

  39. It is the latest talking point. I’m reading their posts as we speak and the victim and her family are being butchered. It’s truly horrifying reading material.

  41. “Short of a miracle we are doomed.” Yes, unfortunately, that’s my conclusion as well. It seems the disorder of liberalism has infected half the country. The recent presidential election tends to confirm it.

  42. It seems unlikely Kate could keep it together on probation. Unless, dare I say it, she’s been scared straight!

  43. Not sure I entirely agree with that. At least insofar as we consider what is ‘normal.’

    Two fourteen year olds doing some heavy petting? Yeah, that happens. It may not be healthy, much less acceptable, but (IMO) should not be criminalized.

    What is at issue here is age disparity and the predatory aspect thereof. There may be a lot of grey in the subject, but ultimately lines must be drawn, and minor/adult seems like an obvious, and reasonable place to draw one.

  44. I’m sorry, she knowingly molested a girl much younger and less mature. Further, the social gradient was particularly steep between a senior and a freshman.

    Kaitlyn chose this, and it was bad advice from the fools her parents recruited to “help” them who reinforced the monstrously bad choices she’s made.

  45. They were in mine. Hell ‘they’ were doing much the same in my junior high school. And this was the late ’70s.

  46. In our law, we have many crimes where the victim may also have participated in some fashion. Domestic abuse is the first to pop to mind. It is not a “lie” to call her a victim. Your comment is simply vacuous.

    But more to the point of bond conditions, these were clearly spelled out. These were not some mystery. Hunt’s way over the top violations show some serious pathology, as well as utter stupidity.

    Hunt seems to lack any contact with reality. Which combines with her supporters equal kooky views of how the world works is going to put her in jail a very long time.

  47. Given that the detectives testimony boiled down to “your honor I’d recognize that cooch anywhere…” I can see where he’d want to end that hearing pronto.

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