The moment she turned 18, a Florida girl named Kaitlyn Hunt was targeted by state prosecutors for “lewd and lascivious conduct” toward her girlfriend, who happened to be 15 at the time Kaitlyn turned 18. It was the girl’s parents who wanted charges to be pressed, even though the younger girl protested that the relationship was completely consensual.
At that age, such things happen all the time. It’s not uncommon for a high school boy of 17 to be dating a girl of 15 or so, yet I know of no cases where the boys are prosecuted as soon as they celebrate their 18th birthday. But in Kaitlyn’s case, her girlfriend’s parents were upset that their daughter was in a lesbian relationship and they retaliated by having State Attorney Brian Workman to bring charges, claiming that Kaitlyn turned their daughter into a lesbian.
There is ample reason to be outraged against a state attorney who was so readily swayed by bigots to do the wrong thing, but then he’s probably a hard-core bigot himself. As for the parents, well instead of embracing their daughter and encouraging her to be happy, they have probably alienated her for the rest of their lives. Meanwhile, the girl will be an adult herself in less than three years, and if she keeps her love for Kaitlyn alive for that long, they will be free to resume their relationship — that is if Kaitlyn isn’t in prison and her life isn’t in tatters, as is liable to happen if these redneck Floridians don’t drop the whole stupid case.
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