Florida High School Girl Sex Crime: 18-Year-Old Accepts Plea Deal Thursday To Sexual Relations With 14-Year-Old Teammate When Alleged Victim's Parents Wouldn't Budge

Florida high school girl sex crime: 18-year-old Kaitlyn Hunt accepted a plea deal after her alleged sexual relations with a 14-year-old student who was her teammate in Indian River County.

The plea deal in the Florida high school girl sex crime was to avoid becoming a registered sex offender. This case garnered national attention because critics thought she was being picked on because of her sexual orientation.

A statement issued by the family of the alleged victim, through their attorney Charles Sullivan Jr., said it was never their intent to do any harm to Kaitlyn Hunt after they found out about the Florida high school girl alleged sex crime.

"This case was never about gender or sexual orientation," said the statement, provided to WPTV in West Palm Beach. "It was about age-appropriate relationships and following the rules and laws of our society."

This case is not a rape case, but simply because an 18-year-old cannot have sex or sexual relations with a minor, according to Florida law. Hunt's parents said that their daughter never thought anything of it because the two were teammates and the 14-year-old was much larger than their daughter.

Under the plea deal, Hunt entered no contest pleas to a series of charges including misdemeanor battery and felony interference with child custody, according to the court documents. Hunt has been in jail since August and will remain there until Dec. 20. Once released, she will be under felony supervision for three years. If Hunt adheres to the conditions of her release, she will not be branded a convicted felon or registered sex offender and can ask for her case to be sealed or expunged.

If the original case went to trial, Hunt could have potentially faced up to 15 years in prison as a requirement to a registered sex offender.

Hunt's lawyer, Julia Graves, told Reuters that Hunt accepted the plea offer because the possibility of conviction on the original charges was too risky.

"Kaitlyn Hunt is accepting the plea deal in her best interest as well as that of her family, the 'victim' and the 'victim's' family," Graves said. "It is time to enter a plea given the current state of the law and get back to living a somewhat normal life without fear of the unknown for everyone involved.