Accused Sex Offender Kaitlyn Hunt ‘Expected to Accept’ Plea Deal: CNN

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Last night I reported the latest offer from prosecutors, but now CNN adds this important detail in the Kaitlyn Hunt saga:

Hunt’s attorney was involved in crafting the deal, Workman said, and Hunt is expected to accept the plea agreement.
She had refused at least two other deals.
“I believe this is a fair and balanced offer that protects the victim while giving Ms. Hunt the ability to avoid the most severe consequences of her crimes by demonstrating that no further punishment is necessary,” Workman said.

So, nearly five months into this ugly public spectacle — which could have been avoided entirely, if only Kaitlyn Hunt had been willing to accept the original plea bargain — we now may be within sight of the end.

It was only because of the Hunt family’s hope of making their daughter the Jailbait Lesbian Poster Girl, a heroic martyr for gay rights, that anybody outside Indian River Count ever heard of this tawdry little mess, which ordinarily would have ended with a three-paragraph item in the local newspaper’s courts-and-cops column.

UPDATE: Palm Beach CBS affiliate WPEC-TV reports that Kaitlyn Hunt has in fact accepted the plea deal, although we do not yet have any statement from Hunt’s attorney confirming this. Thanks to @NASCARNAC for this tip. It’s amazing how Twitter has enabled me to stay on top of this story for the past four-and-a-half months, and there are a lot of people due hat-tips for helping with the coverage.

UPDATE II: Kaitlyn Hunt’s Mother on Plea Deal: ‘It’s Not Right, It’s Not Fair and It’s Not Just’

 

42 comments

  1. One might hope that she might have some second or third degree relatives who can pry her loose from the influence of her mother and father and get her to straighten up and fly right.

  2. I will be pleasantly surprised if she accepts it. Though maybe if she has a lawyer who isn’t also representing her mother, maybe said lawyer can talk some sense into her.

    Certainly the mother seems to be being urged by her online supporters to counter sue the victim’s family, as well as anyone who has ever given that family support. And KSH seems to be pathologically incapable of admitting that her precious little snowflake isn’t as pure as the driven snow.

    If I were a betting woman, I’d consider taking a wager that KH is back in jail for violating the terms of the plea within six months, but the odds probably wouldn’t make it worth it.

    Now if Kate does accept the deal, and can keep her fingers to herself, I’ll happily try to forget the whole sordid mess.

  3. Amen to everything you said. There was always some kind of sociopathic narcissism vibe coming from the Hunt family, and their little victimhood drama attracted an amazing collection of kooks.

  5. It was only because of the Hunt family’s hope of making their daughter the Jailbait Lesbian Poster Girl, a heroic martyr for gay rights, that anybody outside Indian River County ever heard of this tawdry little mess, which ordinarily would have ended with a three-paragraph item in the local newspaper’s courts-and-cops column.

    And with their efforts, Kaitlyn spends another 2 months in jail. No felony, no sex offender. Hunt-Smith apparently off-scot-free, too.

    If the prosecutors don’t see what they’re setting themselves up for…. well, then they’d have been smart enough to insist on felony record and sex offender status for the months and months of lies, deception, (and that little matter of the continued molestation, alienation, and assaults on the victim, but who really cares about that?)

  6. You’re probably right. I’ll expect to see the news sometime next year that Kate has been arrested for possession of marijuana or some other violation of her probation, and returned to jail.

  7. Right now there are FB posts out there talking about how the victim will be 16, age of consent, in April. Which makes it sound like they think that even with the plea deal the way it is written, Kate can pick up right where they left off the instant the poor kid turns 16.

    So my bet is sometime in April for this whole mess to start making the news again. There were some other posts suggesting that Kate wasn’t exactly keeping savory company (not counting her crazy parents) in the months up to her jail stint, so it could be earlier if she hasn’t learned anything from her incarceration.

  8. IMHO, this sucks. I wonder what made the prosecutors drop her sex offender status when she and her sub-scum parents doubled down. It makes no sense to me at all.

  10. Not a bad deal at all: it gives the lovely Miss Hunt a chance to straighten — pun intended — out her life and start over, without a record, if she can keep her part of the deal.

    Four months in jail, followed by two years of house arrest, puts the victim at very close to 18 years of age. Another year of probation, and her victim is over 18, and they can play stink finger all they want, though I’d guess that, by then, both girls would have moved on.

    The person who really has a lot to live up to is Kelley Hunt Smith: she’ll have two years of work having to supervise her horny cute little daughter and make sure that whatever guys or girls she decides to date — and house arrest should have been part of her probation — are all legal. Since Miss Hunt must submit to searches without warrants through the course of her probation, there can be absolutely no recreational pharmaceuticals in her home.

    Mrs Smith has one huge job: teaching her daughter something that she doesn’t believe herself, that Miss Hunt brought all of this on herself, with her dear mother as her enabler.

  11. Because they really didn’t want her listed as a sex offender: that’s the creation of a lifetime welfare recipient for something that they probably look at as just school kids fornicating around.

  16. Bigger picture: the organizations and individuals supporting the Hunts will claim victory, which will embolden people with abnormal lusts to pursue sex with children. If Kaitlyn Hunt got off, will be the reasoning, then why an middle-aged man with a newborn? Or a female school teacher with one or more of her students?

  17. No. I think she’s going to become a celebrity and a hero for the gay rights movement! Because Not a Sex Offender!

  19. Except that she can transfer her probation to any state that agrees to accept supervisionroll out the red carpet for her!

  21. Kate will have an entourage and handlers when she gets out… Not even family nor even her PO will get anywhere near Kate but through them!

  22. The dirty little secret of Florida law is the loophole in AOC law making it legal for teens that age to have sex with each other without circumstance.

    Remember that the Hunts charged that the Smiths knew about Kate and their daughter messing around, but intentionally waited until Kate was 18 to call the cops because they had no recourse otherwise.

  24. No, I’m pretty sure that the crimes were being committed after Kate aged up. I’m not sure that the R/J allowances weren’t being exceeded anyway.

  28. Nooooo, No contest is nolo contendere. That means niether and it is a plea. Also, rape vs. relationship is society. We support relationships as a society, but oppose rape. This was not rape on her. If such, The family should be charged for falsification, the other girl for illegal activity of 16 years consent, and then Kaitlyn for statutory, yet they were charging only Kaitlyn and we are needing to enforce the law, well that is not right for two people to escape ultimate wrong.

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