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UPDATE 2:05 p.m. ET: Bond was revoked after Judge Robert Pegg described evidence of Kaitlyn Hunt’s violation of her pretrial release as “overwhelming.”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. If I were the victims dad I dam sure would have made copies of all the nasties on that phone.

    Once the phone has spent a suitable amount of time in the possession of ‘others’ whose to say how those images made their way onto the internet?

  3. The judge made the right call by not agreeing to the defense attorney’s request for house arrest. Putting aside the fact that house arrest was part of one of the plea deals that Kate rejected as too onerous, she is surrounded by people who allegedly have been assisting her in pressuring the victim to lie and to keep quiet, and who have been facilitating meetings and acting as go-betweens. There was not a snowball’s chance in hell that would not have continued given the blatant disrespect for the court that the Hunts and some of their supporters have shown. The minor will now have a chance to detox from the constant pressure and manipulation that she has been under for almost a year.

  4. Hey now. I happen to be a liberal female, one who supports gay rights, non-traditional marriage, et al… But, if you read my comments, I certainly do not fit your description nor do I have any agenda whatsoever. I merely feel like vomiting when hearing of an adult sexually abusing a child. An amoral, manipulative, narcissistic, delusional, entitled adult, at that.

    Hell, I’m on a conservative blog agreeing with the [majority] of posts, aren’t I? And for fuck’s sake please don’t lump me in with the repugnant Hunt family! Blech! 😉

  6. Dianna,

    I am not “blaming the victim.”

    I am saying that it should be the prosecution’s burden to prove that there IS a victim.

    The 14-year-old MAY be a victim. That remains to be seen (and probably WON’T be seen in court, since bad laws have been passed to circumvent the process of determining one way or another).

    In other news, I just made a $5 donation to Hunt’s defense fund in honor of “rmnixondeceased.”

  8. She’s a sociopath. While she can feel her own pain, and might even cry for herself it was a performance.

    But ot was not aimed at the court, it was aimed at her parents, and her victim. She needs to keep her parents in the game, and she needs her victim to recant.

    But even if that happens it still wont save her from the latest charge.

  9. And there you have it. She may have been abused herself at some point, but she is behaving like a sociopath who are master manipulators. They also tend to be very charismatic and able to attract people to causes.

  10. What part of minor child do you not understand?

    Many pedophiles are not big on forcible rape. No, they get off on grooming children into willing participants.

    You have no idea how distasteful and disgusting the road you are on is.

  11. Parents acting like pimps, blaming the victim. A daughter that’s a sexual predator. Charge them both and throw away the key. Solicitation, coersion and intimidation.

  12. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I recall seeing the father was arrested for domestic violence involving children and alleged violence of his ex-wife and present wife? I’ll have to look it up.

  13. I appreciate your comments and your desire not to be lumped in with the #freekate movement. I also acknowledge my habit of generalizing, but your opening sentences actually confirm my statement.

    Your support for those who practice homosexual behavior and non-traditional families is a direct attack on the traditional family unit – simply by definition.

  16. I am the responsible father of a 22-year-old daughter and 14- and 12-year-old sons.

    Not a lot pisses me off, but having some screeching dumbass accuse me of being or supporting a pedophile is high on the list of things that do piss me off.

    Since I can’t fine “rmnixondeceased” for his antics, I had to find another way of causing his bad manners to produce results that he neither intended nor desired. Thus, the defense fund contribution.

  17. I don’t think so. He was fired from the police force for witness intimidation (HELLO???!!) and was prosecuted more recently for a fraud charge, I believe.

  18. Depends on what you mean by “keen.”

    If you mean it in terms of understanding how the law works, I am reasonably keen on the subject (I’ve even had some formal education in it).

    If you mean it in terms of liking how this particularly crappy law works, well, no. Drawing a number out of a hat does not a victim make.

  19. Then what does she deserve? Free and unrestricted access to seduce 14 year olds? That’s the logic of your assertion. Serious question – defend what you said, if you’re not a drive by troll.

  20. Don’t you mean the Kaitlyn Hunt iPod, and daddy Hunt truck and mower fund? Good lord, you are dense. You might as well have flushed that money down the toilet. But, it’s certainly your choice. Maybe Kaitlyn can buy a new vibrator to use on minors with that money?

  22. Not taking sides here, but didn’t Kaitlyns lawyer say that the first scheduled court date (the one where the trial would have started in September) was too soon, and there wasn’t enough time to prepare an adequate defense? I wonder if they will now be asking for proceedings to be moved up to an earlier date now.

  24. I don’t particularly care what they do with the money. What I bought with it was a couple of seconds of prospective apoplexy from the guy who seems to be claiming to be the rotting corpse of Nixon. And I got my money’s worth.

  25. I didn’t peg you as a pedophile supporter, but I do think that you come across as someone who worships at the altar of libertarianism to a degree that is unworkable. The prosecutor WILL HAVE TO PROVE HIS CASE. Period. He will have to prove that the minor was, in fact, a minor, and that Kate had sex with her. Kate has stated that she knew what she was doing was wrong, but she did it anyway because the minor “looked older.” She knew the girl was only 14. She knew the law and she willingly and knowingly broke it. Repeatedly.

  26. Yes, and no. They asked for more time, and then the court moved the trial out even farther because of a crowded court docket.

  27. Mm,

    Well, I admit to being a libertarian extremist. Mea culpa.

    However, I don’t see that this has a lot to do with libertarianism. It just has to do with piss-poor law.

    While I understand Stacy’s reason for focusing on this case (teen lesbianism brings the hits, posturing against pedophilia really gets the crowd’s blood up, and both of those things translate into dollars for a working writer), I occasionally enjoy interjecting reason into his medicine show.

  28. To all who try to lay any blame on the 14 year old or say that she is able to have a mature relationship and can make her own decisions, I say this: Give your 14 year old complete control over your finances and let them run the household…….. Ridiculous right. But said 14 year old full of raging hormones can make responsible choices in love and sex….. totally disingenuous. Also this is not love, its lust pure and simple. Love would be candlelight, flowers etc… dildos in a school bathroom is something else.

  29. Be fair. Stacy may be enjoying some SEO traffic for this, but he’s a dad. I think he’d beat hell out of any 18 year old who molested his 14 year old. What baffles me is why YOU, apparently, would not.

  30. They should not send her back to that school. Plus, if the cops down there have any sense, they have started investigating the school and what goes on there. I’ve seen this before – where there is one case of sextexting porn pics and videos, there are more.

  34. I have two sons who were incredibly smart and capable at fourteen.

    I would have been insane to let them run things. And I’m not that great at running them myself (accordion to the K-Missus).

  35. Even people who support these laws, like me, acknowledge that there are gray areas and situations that are murky. I don’t think that this is one of those times. You have to remember that the parents of minor child spoke to Kate Hunt twice and begged her to stay away from their daughter. She ignored them. If they did not have the option of going to law enforcement, what happens after a time is that people in a community resort to self-help. That is happening in Detroit right now.

  37. Hey clownie, she does deserve it, She’s a wretched little perv with a very disabled conscience. Don’t want to do the time, don’t do the crime.

  47. 🙂 I just knew that suggesting those names would get a positive response.

    And be glad that I resisted the temptation to edit the comment and add Michelle Obama.

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