Posted on 05/21/2013 8:41:38 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Kaitlyn Hunt, an 18-year-old high school student in Sebastian, Fla., is facing charges and has been expelled from school for having a same-sex relationship with a 15-year-old classmate, CBS Tampa Bay reports. PICTURES: Fla. teen charged over underage same-sex relationship Hunt is charged with two counts of lewd and lascivious battery of a child 12 to 16 years of age after the other girl's parents called authorities when Hunt, a senior at Sebastian River High School, turned 18, according to the station.
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It says the younger girl’s parents called the authorities after the older girl turned 18. My question would be, did the sexual activity continue after the girl turned 18? It would make a big difference if the defense can prove everything happened when both girls were minors.
In Florida law (re: lewd and lascivious battery), consent is a ‘prohibited defense’...
I haven’t read anywhere who started the affair.
Society and the laws have made it difficult to illegal for a parent to control their children’s behavior.
Just as an aside, dating isn’t against the law. In this case the older girl is charged with having had sex with the younger girl.
“I haven’t read anywhere who started the affair.”
I don’t think it would matter in court. Older men who get caught in stuff like this are often the ones being pursued at the start.
Agreed...
I personally think that the parents of the 15 year old should have just pulled her out of the public school as soon as they learned of her relationship with the other girl and homeschooled her.
Notice that this is being addressed on an age related basis though. And that is not really addressing the problem here IMO. And I think you agree with that.
Yes and they were dating. It wasn’t just having sex I don’t believe, although that actually does happen when teenagers date.
Does the BSA really want to go down this road?
Yes, lot’s of time that happens. Some young girl wants to be with an older boy. Could have been the same kind of situation here.
800.04 Lewd or lascivious offenses committed upon or in the presence of persons less than 16 years of age.—(4) LEWD OR LASCIVIOUS BATTERY.—A person who:
(a) Engages in sexual activity with a person 12 years of age or older but less than 16 years of age; or
ok
It also goes to show that they have been making efforts to get the older woman away from their daughter.
funny how the headline shouts out her name, when in most cases it would say something like “Florida Woman charged...”
is she some kind of local celebrity?
otherwise i wonder why the headline would read like this
They probably went ballistic when they learned they were having sex. (I know I would have...though I don't know if I would have called the police).
The age of consent is 16 in most states.
As a basic rule...Anyone over 16 that boinks anyone under 16 will get charged with a crime.
States vary but 16 is key in most states.
As I pointed out in another thread yesterday, there are many laws that define whether or not something is legal by age. For example, if the girl in question attempted to vote one day before her 18th birthday, it would be illegal; one day after, legal. If she tried to buy alcohol one day before her 21st birthday, illegal; one day after, legal. If she signed a contract one day before her 18th birthday, it would not be binding upon her; one day after, it would. An so on and so forth.
So are you arguing that ALL age-based laws should be repealed? And if not, why should this age-based law be any different than any other?
Why??
I thought our progressive edumacashun system promotes this sort of thing. Free love baybay!
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