BY CAROL KURUVILLA / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2014, 1:01 PM
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Hunt has reportedly found a new chance at love with her 27-year-old girlfriend Latasha Thomas, nicknamed L.T. But the new flame in Hunt’s life has a rap sheet of her own.
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Kaitlyn Hunt, 18, was expelled from high school in Florida after having a relationship with a 14-year-old girl.
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Kaitlyn Hunt is off to a fresh new start with LaTasha Thomas, a 27-year-old woman from Vero Beach, Fla.
She found love in a hopeless place.
Kaitlyn Hunt, the woman who was arrested at 18 for having a sexual relationship with her 14-year-old girlfriend, is reportedly trying her best to move on to safer, and more legal, pastures.
Hunt confirmed that she’s opening a new chapter of her life with a much older girlfriend—a 27-year-old woman named Latasha Thomas.
The former Sebastian River High School cheerleader, has reportedly shown up to court with her new flame, nicknamed L.T.
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Latasha K. Thomas was arrested in 2006 for marijuana possession and again in 2012 for domestic battery by strangulation.
"Now I just want to put it all behind me," the 19-year-old told ABC News. "I want to stay out of trouble. I want to do the right thing, and then get it over with, so I can move on with my life."
But Thomas has had her own brushes with the law.
In 2012, the Vero Beach resident was arrested for domestic battery by strangulation and trying to hinder communication with the police. In 2006, she was arrested for marijuana possession and driving with a suspended driver’s license.
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The Stop the Hate, Free Kate campaign was organized by supporters who believed Hunt was targeted by her former girlfriend’s parents for being a lesbian.
Thomas is featured front and center in a Facebook group that Hunt's family created to support the teen's cause.
After her arrest last year, Hunt told WPTV that she “was never educated on dating laws and ages and stuff so I still was confused about everything.”
Hunt met her 14-year-old lover during basketball tryouts at their high school. When the child’s parents found out in May 2013, they immediately alerted the police. Hunt’s lawyer argued that the parents were motivated by bias towards Hunt’s sexual orientation. In August, a judge revoked Hunt’s bond after finding out the teen had exchanged 20,000 text messages with her underaged girlfriend in direct violation of court orders.
Hunt was released from a Vero Beach jail in December after serving a 120 day sentence for charges including battery, interference with child custody, and contributing to the dependency of a child, CNN reports. She has to wear an ankle bracelet during the next two years of house arrest. There will be nine more months of monitored probation after that.
The teen is studying to be a medical assistant and working to change consensual sex between teens in the same high school into a misdemeanor instead of a felony.
"As long as I'm home with my family and I get to see everybody every day, then I think I'll be okay," Hunt said.
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