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In reply to the discussion: Kaitlyn Hunt's mother under attack by bloggers who say 'Free Kate' is all lies [View all]Chan790
(20,176 posts)she was offered a deal where months after she accepted said deal a judge would decide whether or not she had to register as a sex offender. That deal predicated a requirement of jail time and the decision would be made while she was incarcerated, meaning it was not even behaviorally-conditional. (ie. You won't be a sex offender as long as you meet these conditions {a,b,c} and do not have contact with your victim.)
That's in no way the same as a deal that explicitly allows her upfront to "avoid any sex-offender status."
If a deal that took sex-offender status off the table either-conditionally-or-unconditionally had been offered, the Hunts almost certainly would have taken it since Kate Hunt and her parents had already offered to relocate the family out of state and sever any contact between Kate and the 14 year old in exchange for dismissal of the charges.