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"The attorney for an 18-year-old Treasure Coast woman who was charged with a felony for having sexual contact with her underage, 14-year-old girlfriend is asking the judge to remove himself from the case.Kaitlyn Hunt is charged with lewd and lascivious battery on a child. Her family claims authorities and the younger girl's parents secretly recorded a phone conversation in which the girls discussed kissing in the school bathroom.Judge Robert Pegg recently set a trial date for September.Attorney Julia Graves filed a motion Monday alleging the case is being singled out because a trial was set before more than 200 other criminal cases and the date is premature.The girls started dating when they were both students and basketball teammates at Sebastian River High School. Hunt was arrested and subsequently expelled from school in February, but the polarizing case made national headlines once her parents mounted a social media blitz seeking support for their daughter last month.Hunt rejected a plea deal that would have resulted in two years of house arrest.Gay rights advocates claim Hunt is being unfairly targeted for a common romance because she's gay.More From WPBF: Email alerts | Mobile | SocialView, Share Breaking News Photos On WPBF.com's u local:9146236"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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