Vero Beach, FL – Kaitlyn Hunt, the 19-year old jailed over a sexual relationship she had with a 14-year-old girl, pleaded no contest on Thursday to five charges as part of a brokered deal by prosecutors and her attorneys, according to CNN.
Hunt pleaded no contest to two counts of misdemeanor battery, misdemeanor contributing to the dependency of a child and two counts of felony interference with child custody. In August, Hunt violated a court order to not contact the alleged victim, and has been in jail ever since.
According to the agreement, Hunt will be sentenced to four months in jail, followed by two years of house arrest with electronic monitoring and nine months of monitored probation after that, reports CNN. If Hunt has no violations, she will not be a convicted felon under Florida law, and there is a possibility that she can seal her file, having the case expunged after 10 years, according to prosecutor Brian Workman. But Hunt’s parents have been critical of the victim’s family for dealing with the incident through the police.
“If we start arresting kids for having sex or ‘sexting,’ you might as well turn the high schools into prisons,” Hunt’s parents said. Following the statement, the victim’s parents responded.
“It was about age-appropriate relationships and following the rules and laws of our society,” their statement read.