Kaitlyn Hunt's mother under attack by bloggers who say 'Free Kate' is all lies

[AnalystInParadise]

162. Frankly, I don't care if people know what it is like to be 18 or not.

An 18 year old is still subject to the law as a 19 year old is as a 20 year old is. We don't grant exceptions because gosh darnit she is just 18 and it is a magical time. That kind of thinking fortunately is not present often in the legal system.

I don't have a teenage daughter so I don't know how either family feels. However, I know hypocrisy when I smell it and many defenders of this young woman are being very hypocritical. The argument breaks down two ways.

1. These are just two dumb kids, they don't know any better, why they are children and how can WE expect children to have any common sense and know how to deal with a situation like this. Shucks, these kids are just answering their emotions and WE as adults need to let the kids be kids and not trouble them with adult concerns.........HOWEVER we burden these same 18 year old CHILDREN with the most important thing they can ever do and implore them to vote in overwhelming numbers because WE want to win. If they are children and can't understand right from wrong on relationships, why on earth do we expect them to understand Tax policy, Foreign Policy, Affordable Health Care, Social Issues. Yet, we push them to vote, to register every 18 year old they can and have them vote also. I don't know much but I smell rank hypocrisy when we give them a pass when it suits some peoples agendas and we hold them accountable when it serves our agenda in a far different way.

2. This is a short argument: If this was a male, the lynch mob on this site would perhaps stretch down the road quite a ways. But it is not a male, it is a female that is a lesbian. I have no problem with who she is and the way she was born, it's a damn shame that we don't have national gay marriage laws, HOWEVER, she is an adult, gay or straight she is an adult. Adults have consequences put on them when they break laws. I was in the military with plenty of 18 year old's that were held accountable for being 18 and sleeping with 14 and 15 year old's. If the law if Florida is written the way it looks, then she has committed a crime. If she refuses a plea deal, which is in essence the system going easy on her, then she must go to trial and a jury of her peers (not her peer group in high school, a jury of her peers, i.e. adults will judge her as they see fit when the evidence is presented). The day she turned 18 she was held to a different standard, and the ability to be considered a child went away.

Now all my hyperbole aside, I have nothing personal against this young woman, she seems like a great student and someone who could do something with her life. However, she did break the law in the state of Florida, I will never sign a petition to excuse her behavior because I don't want her behavior excused. I want her to face the fact that she broke the law and must be held accountable if it is proven that she did in fact do so. I also think Florida needs to change this law because it is a stupid law that needs to be written more clearly. However I cannot condone an 18 year old that can vote, that can fight and die for their country, that can buy cigarettes, that can own property, and that can enter into contracts if they choose to sleep with a child......And that other girl is a child. No matter how you want to spin it, an adult molested a child. An adult took a child from her parents home without the parents permissions, an adult refused to abide by the demands of the legal parents of a child to stop seeing that child. There is a word for someone like that, a criminal......Personally I ope the young lady takes the plea deal, does her punishment and moves on with her life wiser and more cognizant of the responsibilities of adulthood