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UPDATE 2:05 p.m. ET: Bond was revoked after Judge Robert Pegg described evidence of Kaitlyn Hunt’s violation of her pretrial release as “overwhelming.”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. To be fair, Thomas is a Libertarian with a heavy Anarchist lean. I believe he’s been commenting at TOM since before I began in late 2008. This is by no means a defense of his opinions.

  3. Mrs. QM has said much the same about me. I think she’s just a biased Feminist, but I’m having problems finding any evidence of said bias, even though I know it’s out there somewhere.

  4. While yes Kate is an adult rule number one is, my roof my rules. The minute Kate’s parents knew what was going on they should have read their daughter the riot act. It appears from the time line that the victim’s parents didn’t go straight away to the cops.
    My sense of this is that between the early January incident and charges being filed in February Kate and her family left the victim’s parents no other recourse.

  6. I suppose if you think making an ass of yourself is worth it to you. When I realize I’ve made an ass of myself, I’m usually abashed, but I guess you have no shame.

    Letting Nixon get your goat just adds to the shame in my book.

  8. Latest conversation on Free Kate FB page: They are all directly donating money to Kate’s commissary fund in jail. How anyone could reward what she’s done is beyond me. Are these people abject morons or legitimately mentally ill? This excludes every post *still* vilifying the victim.

  11. I hate armchair “judicial” analysis of cases like this. Before jumping on the bandwagon to convict her before the trial, please, remember these pre-trial evidentiary hearings always present the prosecutor’s point of view. Most of the time the defense hasn’t had a chance to scrutinize the evidence. Do we really know these 20K texts and media originated from Ms. Hunt? Or, are we just accepting law enforcement’s word as Gospel?

    I’m skeptical because my local law enforcement has been shown to tamper with evidence making innocent people look guilty. So, I have to ask whether Florida is any different. Even if they are better, the public should allow both side to scrutinize the evidence before making any judgements.

  12. You’re just profiteering. You probably set him up to what he did so you could make a buck or million. I know how you Yankee traders are.

    See your email for my Visa number.

  14. He’s being a clown. He’s referring to the video that was from the waist down but he could ID by the piercing and tats.

  15. In many states, knowing that a felony was committed and failing to report it can get you charged. There is a legal term for it that I can’t recall.

  16. She hasn’t been charged for sending texts. She had an additional charge tacked on today for sending lewd and lascivious photos.

  17. Yep, her record has been updated. Count 3 felony is: “Transmit Material Harmful To Minor By Electronic Equipment.”

  20. Shove it. If you quack like a duck and fly with ducks, you are a fucking duck.
    What part of the law do you not understand? The part where a 14 year old is legally a minor and legally unable to consent to sexual activities, enter into contracts, vote, etc.? A minor must have parental consent for any of those things. The victim didn’t. Good luck being a fucking pedo pal duck Tommy.

  21. She might very well be a sociopath, but sorry the 15 year old who traded 20k texts with her is no victim.

  22. Oh, I see, in order to post here you have to walk in perfect lockstep with the approved narrative. Gotcha.

  24. But if the 14 year old shot someone you would be calling her an adult and screaming bloody murder if she was charged as a juvenile. Hunt may very well be a sociopath but that doesn’t mean that a 15 year old who traded 20k texts with her and had sex with her 3 times is any kind of a victim. And another thing, cut out the hyperbole about how this pedophilia. She was 14 and Hunt was 18. She wasn’t 4, dummy. They even played together on the same school sports team.

  26. Yeah, the law is clear but someone who trades 20k text messages with someone 4 years her senior even after all the trouble Hunt is in, is not in any way, shape, or form a victim. And to call a relationship between two teenagers “child grooming” as if a 14 year old never heard of sex before, is simply idiotic.

  29. Strawman.

    Love your last sentence. So if I play on the same sports team as someone, I should be allowed to have sex with them?

  32. I think you are confused, this wasn’t a preliminary hearing on the original charges. This was a hearing on whether or not she’d violated the terms of her bond.

    Which the judge was convinced she had. If there were authentication issues, her attorney should have brought them up and presented evidence.

  34. What? No, dummy, the point is they are very close in age and are peers. You’re acting like Hunt was hanging around an elementary school in a trench coat with a pocket full of candy.

  35. You’re going to hell? Listen to this stupid fuck! Gotta love self righteous, theocrat, twats like this guy.

  37. I love it when asswipes self identify like this.
    Regardless of the new “talking point” Kate is going to be convicted of something. Her continued felonious behavior is only an excuse to try to minimize her old and new charges.
    Manditory psych exam during her incarceration pre-trial may well reveal she is a psychopath. All the more reason to lock her up, she’ll keep re-offending any time she is free.

  39. Immorality and bad behavior will result in Hell for those who do not repent and confess their sins. Too bad you don’t believe that because God does. Are you in for a surprise!

  42. One of RCZ followers has been posting my home address every morning along with some vile hash tags not sure what they want to accomplish but I live in Red Neck central with weapons and a put bull

    I’ve lawyered up maybe I should sell prints of my photos to fund the enviable lawsuit a gofundme account

  43. Sincere apologies; that was the only coherent part of your post. And being a dummy I had a lot of trouble with the rest of your strawman.

  44. I haven’t seen that at all. I’ve seen an array of opinions on here, but if you expect anyone to be pro-sex with minors, you’ll likely find more comrades on the Free Kate FB page.

  46. And your opinion means squat considering you’re not Florida legislature. She could not legally consent. End of story. Got it?

  47. Problem, she cannot legally consent to participate, thus the 19 year old adult cannot use that argument to lessen her culpability in violating the conditions of her pre-trial release. Violated by giving the electronic communications device to the minor without the knowledge and consent of the minors parents and knowingly texted the minor victim repeatedly in violation of the terms of her pre-trial release. Her new felony charge could never have happened if she had not violated the terms of her pre-trial release so she is properly being prosecuted for these crimes.
    You lose assclown.

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