An 18-year-old Sebastian River High School senior is reportedly being charged with a felony and expelled from high school as a result of a consensual relationship with another female student. Kaitlyn Hunt started dating a 15-year-old student from her high school basketball team when she herself was 17. Kaitlyn’s father, Steven R. Hunt Jr., claims his daughter was kicked off the basketball team because the coach feared a same-sex relationship would bring unwanted drama. Steven Hunt explained, "The girl's mother found out about the relationship, and, as the track coach and Criminal Justice teacher told me, the girl's mother said that there's no way her daughter could be gay. The mother then took reigns and is now attempting to place felony charges upon my own daughter." According to her family, Kate's girlfriend was a freshman student enrolled in courses with upperclassmen and a fellow player on the varsity basketball team with Kaitlyn. Although Kaitlyn was three years older than her girlfriend, they were friends in the same social circle.

After Kaitlyn's 18th birthday, her girlfriend's parents sent the police to the Hunt residence, where she was arrested. Kaitlyn's mother told The Examiner, "They are out to destroy my daughter, because they feel like she ‘made’ their daughter gay. They see being gay as wrong and they blame my daughter. Of course, I see it 100% differently. I don’t see or label these girls as gay. They are teenagers in high school experimenting with their sexuality — with mutual consent. And even if their daughter is gay, who cares? She is still their daughter.” Kaitlyn's father wrote about the arrest, "My daughter was ripped out of her mother's arms, hysterical. The police finally told us she was being arrested on probable cause."

NYDaily News reports that Kaitlyn has been charged with two felony counts of, “lewd and lascivious battery on a child 12 – 16 years of age." She has reportedly been offered a plea bargain of house arrest. Under these conditions, Hunt would be sentenced to two years house arrest and allowed to attend school or work only during that time. She would also endure one year of probation and attend sex offender counseling. Hunt's mother, Kelley Smith, has until next Friday to accept what she calls the "outrageous plea offer" or take the case to trial.