Category: Florida

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UPDATE 2:05 p.m. ET: Bond was revoked after Judge Robert Pegg described evidence of Kaitlyn Hunt’s violation of her pretrial release as “overwhelming.”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

 

 


Is Obstruction of Justice, Like Dildo Sex With 14-Year-Olds, ‘Healthy and Normal’?

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Kaitlyn Hunt’s family says she’s a victim of homophobia.

“They are teenagers in high school experimenting with their sexuality, all teens do it in one form or another. They are teens, it’s healthy and normal.”
— Kelley Hunt Smith (Kaitlyn Hunt’s mother), May 17

“The facts as we understand them suggest that the state is prosecuting Kaitlyn for engaging in behavior that is both fairly innocuous and extremely common.”
— American Civil Liberties Union, May 21

“F–k you. . . . You’re stupid. . . . You snitched on me. God only knows what you’ll do when pressured in court.”
— Kaitlyn Hunt, May 21

“The state is further in possession of lewd and lascivious videos the defendant sent the child victim. At least one video explicitly depicts the defendant masturbating by rubbing her vagina with her fingers while moaning.”
— Christopher Taylor, Assistant State Attorney, Aug. 15

If it’s so “healthy and normal” to have sex with a 14-year-old, if this is “fairly innocuous and extremely common,” you might think everybody would support Kaitlyn Hunt. But back when this case first made headlines, when the Hunt family had convinced people that Kaitlyn was a victim of “hate and bigotry,” there was a deliberate effort to avoid the actual facts in the case. There were aggravating circumstances involved, and once people became aware of these facts, no sane person could embrace the “gay victimhood” narrative that had originally made the “Free Kate” movement such a popular cause. Does anyone else remember how her supporters hated the facts?

Once you knew the facts, you recognized that the “Free Kate” argument was constructed entirely of rationalizations and evasions — minimizing, justifying, blame-shifting — and, if all those evasions failed, claiming that it is OK, because everybody does it:

Hunt’s parents believe their daughter is being singled out because she’s in a lesbian relationship.
“I could ramble off 10, 20 other relationship(s) right now at the same high school that are freshman and senior; 14 and 18; and they’re not being prosecuted,” Hunt-Smith said.

This is just dishonest. She claims to know about “relationships” that aren’t being prosecuted, but are 14-year-olds in Indian River County routinely screwing around with adults? Is this community such a pit of moral depravity that parents of high-school freshmen do not object to their 14-year-olds doing this? Give me a break.

These aren’t arguments. These are excuses.

And so now the scofflaw hoodlums are cornered like rats:

A plea bargain offered to accused sex offender Kaitlyn Hunt has been withdrawn after Florida prosecutors say the 19-year-old lesbian violated a judge’s order not to have contact with her underage victim. WPEC-TV reported that Hunt could be arrested today, and that the 19-year-old former cheerleader’s mother Kelley Hunt Smith may also face charges in connection with the case.
Hunt was a senior at Sebastian River High School when she was arrested in February on charges that she had sex with a 14-year-old freshman girl who was a basketball teammate. Hunt was charged with two felonies; the age of consent in Florida is 16. Last week, state attorney Bruce Colton’s office filed a complaint that Hunt, who has been free on $5,000 bond awaiting trial, violated the no-contact order that was a condition of her pretrial release. . . .
A hearing on the prosecutor’s complaint has been scheduled for Tuesday, but Scott T. Smith of Palm Beach CBS affiliate WPEC-TV reported Monday “Hunt faces being returned to jail as soon as today, and her mom may also face charges.” . . .
Violating the no-contact order could mean that not only will Hunt have to wait in jail until her case goes to trial, but she and her mother could also face charges of contempt of court and obstruction of justice. . . .

Read the whole thing at ViralRead, because they still hate the facts.

 

Florida: The Rape State

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Why does accused sex offender Kaitlyn Hunt think she has a “right” to have sex with 14-year-olds? Perhaps because she lives in Florida, where some officials seem to think enforcing the law is optional, and dangerous sex offenders are released to rape again:

594 sex offenders were convicted of new sex crimes after being reviewed under the Jimmy Ryce law since it took effect in 1999. . . .
For every sex offender the state has committed under the 14-year-old Ryce law, two others have been released — only to be arrested again for a sex crime.
From South Florida to the Panhandle, these men have cut a fresh trail of pain, molesting more than 460 children, raping 121 women, and killing 14.
Many offenders attacked again only days after Florida let them go. Six found new victims the same day they walked out the prison gates. . . .
[T]he head of the agency that screens sex offenders said she would investigate what changes should be made.
Esther Jacobo said the Department of Children & Families would analyze a sample of reoffenders the newspaper identified to determine what went wrong as it reviews the program from top to bottom.
“The only thing I can hope is that we come up with something better so that we get a larger percentage of these guys not to hurt people anymore,” said Jacobo, the agency’s interim secretary. “The biggest wish would be that we could stop it all. I’m not naive enough to think that that’s going to happen, but I think we can do better.”
Some changes already are under way. The department has convened a team of mental health experts to review how Florida identifies sex predators. And, on a single day in June, the agency suddenly recommended continued confinement for 19 sex offenders — as many as it had in all of 2012.
Those actions came too late to protect 8-year-old Cherish Perrywinkle.
This summer, Jacksonville mourned the little girl who was abducted from a Walmart, raped and strangled, her 60-pound body dumped behind a church.
Her accused killer: A registered sex offender freed three weeks earlier.

You can read the whole thing. On average, once every nine days — 42 times a year, for the past 14 years — Florida has released a convicted sex offender who will commit another sex crime.

 

Prosecutors: Kaitlyn Hunt Violated Order, Sent Messages, ‘Lewd’ Photos to Victim UPDATE: Hunt Accused of Sending Masturbation Video to Teenage Victim UPDATE: Lesbian and Victim Had ‘Intimate Contact’ Until Two Weeks Ago

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Accused sex offender Kaitlyn Hunt “violated a pretrial order to have no contact with the victim in her teen-sex case,” the Palm Beach Post reported Thursday, citing a court motion by prosecutors that may end the 19-year-old lesbian’s release on bond.

According to the document cited in an article by Elliott Jones of the Post, “Hunt has been in almost daily contact” with the underage victim, and has secretly sent more than 20,000 text messages to the younger girl. Prosecutors say they have “over 25 lewd and lascivious photographs the defendant sent to the child victim.”

Hunt, who graduated from Sebastian River High School in June, was arrested in February and charged with having sex with a 14-year-old girl who was a freshman teammate on the school’s basketball team.

In May, Hunt’s case made headlines when she rejected a plea bargain offered by Florida prosecutors, and her parents launched the online “Free Kate” movement on her behalf.

Wednesday, prosecutors offered a second plea deal to Hunt, but her mother, Kelley Hunt Smith, denounced the offer in several message sent to the “Free Kate” Facebook group.

UPDATE: From the London Daily Mail:

Kaitlyn Hunt is being urged to accept the new deal which would keep her out of jail and prevent her from being registered as a sex offender — if she pleads no contest to two misdemeanor battery counts and one felony count for interference of child custody. . . .
Hunt . . . is facing felony charges of lewd and lascivious activity. If she goes to trial, she faces 15 years in prison if convicted.

 Click here to see all our coverage of this controversy.

UPDATE II: Oh, my goodness: Just saw the document filed with the court, and it is absolutely devastating to Kaitlyn Hunt. “These photographs are explicit and depict the defendant [i.e., Hunt] nude, sometimes engaged in sex acts such as placing her fingers inside her vagina.” According to the document, Hunt also sent the younger girl at least one video that “explicitly depicts the defendant [i.e., Hunt] masturbating by rubbing her vagina with her fingers while moaning.”

UPDATE III: More from the document filed today: “The defendant [i.e., Hunt] coordinated secret meetings with the child victim [who is now 15] where the child would leave her home and get picked up by the defendant. The defendant would drive the child to a remote location where they would have intimate contact. . . . The child victim has stated to Detective Jeremy Shepherd that these meetings have taken place as recently as two weeks ago.”

UPDATE IV: Here is the document:

Kaitlyn Hunt Violation by Ali A. Akbar

 

UPDATE V: Headline at ViralRead:

‘Lewd’ Photos, Video in Lesbian Teen
Sex-Crime Case, Prosecutors Say

 


#Zimmerman Coda: @dminor85

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by Smitty

A little more DM goodness:

“George Zimmerman has been found not guilty. Regardless of how people feel about it, we must still show love and have compassion one for another.”
– Demetrius Minor, a former White House intern, is an evangelist and motivational speaker.

If you haven’t figured it out, I’m a fan. Follow DM on Twitter and see if you don’t agree he’s the genuine article.

#Zimmerman ACQUITTED: Not Guilty UPDATE: #Trayvon in ‘Amerikkka’?

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That’s all we know for now.

UPDATE 9:56 p.m. ET: CNN announced that the jury had reached a verdict about 9:45 p.m. The general consensus of observers is that it will either be a manslaughter conviction or acquittal.

We await the word. Court has been re-convened in Sanford.

UPDATE 10 p.m. ET:  ACQUITTED.

The jury deliberated for 16 hours.

UPDATE 10:05 p.m. ET: Trayvon Martin’s supporters outside the courtroom are, predictably, very agitated.

UPDATE 10:23 p.m. ET: Honestly, I thought the jury was going to convict on manslaughter — even had that set up as the headline and then was shocked when I heard, “Not guilty.” But I was never emotionally invested in this story, one way or the other. There were arguments to be made either way. A kid should be able to walk to the store and back without ending up shot dead; on the other hand, the original finding of investigators was that Zimmerman was exercising his right to self-defense, and there were those who believed Zimmerman was put on trial simply to satisfy political agitators.

Whatever. More than anything else, I hate the way the media exploited and distorted this case, and one in particular I hate:

UPDATE 10:29 p.m. ET: Oh, yeah, it’s predictable:

“Amerikkka” — and don’t you deny it, haters!

UPDATE 10:45 p.m. ET: More reactions from Twitter:

UPDATE 10:54 p.m. ET: You stay classy, Trayvon supporters!

Seriously? Random violence against just any “white boy” is justified on the basis of this trial in Florida?

UPDATE 11:15 p.m. ET: You want to see what a creepy ass cracker looks like in a hoodie? Then you must click the link:

In case you don’t know, Neal Rauhauser is an associate of convicted bomber/”progressive activist” Brett Kimberlin.

UPDATE 11:35 p.m. ET: You stay classy, continued:

Some of these people are so bad, you have to notify the feds:

UPDATE 11:50 p.m. ET: The New York Times story:

SANFORD, Fla. — George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, igniting a national debate on racial profiling and civil rights, was found not guilty late Saturday night of second-degree murder. He was also acquitted of manslaughter, a lesser charge. . . .
SANFORD, Fla. — George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, igniting a national debate on racial profiling and civil rights, was found not guilty late Saturday night of second-degree murder. He was also acquitted of manslaughter, a lesser charge.

 


Kook City, USA: Awaiting Verdict, Maybe Riots, as #Zimmerman Jury Deliberates

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Let’s be honest: The George Zimmerman trial is “news” because it’s what TV producers have decided is news. However, if you watch too much TV news, your brain has probably atrophied to the stage where you can’t make distinctions about what is more important:

A. This trial in Sanford, Florida, involving people you never met and never heard of until you saw it on the TV news;
or
B. Something that might actually matter to you.

TV-induced mental health issues aside, the outcome of the Zimmerman trial might make a difference in your life if the jury votes to acquit and there are riots. Other than that — and you might want to check Zimmerman Jury Watch at Legal Insurrection — this might be a good time to explain why you think this is important.

The shooting of Trayvon Martin was just local news, until a left-wing group decided this case could help them demonize the so-called “Stand Your Ground” law in Florida which, however, isn’t really relevant to the case (go figure). Then the Usual Suspects of racial ax-grinding (Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, et al.) got involved and President Obama’s political advisers decided he should get involved, too. So there was a press conference in which a reporter asked a pre-approved question, to which President Obama gave a scripted answer.

Somewhere along the way — and I haven’t checked the timeline — NBC News deliberately edited the recording of a 911 call to make it look like Zimmerman is a racist who was “profiling” Trayvon.

Madcap hijinks ensued.

And, if all you know is what you see on TV news, you might believe that Trayvon Martin is the only black teenager who got shot to death in America in 2012. (Hint: He wasn’t.) So now they’ve had around-the-clock national TV coverage of this trial in Sanford, Florida — a town you’ve probably never been to — involving people you’ve never met, and you’re glued to the TV, transfixed with anxiety, as you await the jury’s verdict. Because you’re mentally ill.

Your TV is making you crazy. Stop watching so goddamned much TV. And that’s really all I’ve got to say about it, for now.

 

Speaking of (Alleged) Perverts …

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Some of these creepazoids were as young as 18, the same age as Kaitlyn Hunt when she fingered a 14-year-old in a school toilet stall, so maybe the ACLU will launch a “Free the Polk County 41” campaign or something. Here’s an interesting perp caught in the dragnet:

One of the suspects, James Walker, 46, a costumer’s assistant at Disney World, believed he was going to hookup with a 15-year-old boy. The Davenport man told undercover officers that he had to be careful what he said because he knew he was breaking the law, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Just like Kaitlyn Hunt. But … it was consensual!

UPDATE: The mother of America’s Most Famous Sex Offender™ has the right to remain silent, but refuses to exercise that right:

UPDATE II: The Hunt family and other admirers of The Rosa Parks of Jailbait™ say it’s unfair — haters! bigots! — to remind people that Kaitlyn’s “first date” with her 14-year-old girlfriend was to meet in the school restroom for sex in the toilet stall. No, they insist, this was a consensual relationship — a “high school romance,” as Kaitlyn’s father said in his petition full of lies — and it is wrong of anyone to describe what exactly that relationship involved.

You’re just a bigoted hater if you mention sex in a toilet, see? And so I think it’s important, in the interest of fairness, to describe the young couple’s Big Special Romantic Evening:

[On Jan. 4] the freshman ran away from home to spend the night in Kaitlyn’s bedroom where, to quote the affidavit by Sheriff’s Office Detective Jeremy Shepherd, the two girls “put their fingers inside of each other’s vaginas, put their mouths on each other’s vaginas, and both of them used a vibrator on each other to insert it in each other’s vaginas.”

See? The Hunt family and their friends believe every young girl’s first time (with a dildo-wielding tattooed lesbian) should be so special.

And if a 14-year-old’s parents disagree? Obviously, they’re “despicable assholes that won’t listen to reason”:

Happy 14th Birthday! (Batteries not included.)