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A shocking update in a case out of florida. an 18-year-old girl charged with having a relationship with a 14-year-old girl and she's back in court today. her name is katelyn hunt. she was told to stay away from that younger teenager but if prosecutors are right, she didn't, to the tune of about 20,000 text messages exchanged with that younger teenager since that order just in february. john zarrella takes us back to how this case all began. >> katelyn hunt appeared to be a frightened 18 year old. her freedom on the line. >> i'm scared of losing the rest of my life and not being able to go to c...

Hunt and her family claim the contact was consensual. >> to hold someone accountable for a felony for having a relationship with a peer is outrageous to me. >> reporter: under florida law, a 14-year-old can't give consent. hunt was ordered not to have any contact with the 14 year old. prosecutors now say she did. and not just once or twice. they say they have 20,000 text messages between the two since the no-contact order. in one, prosecutors say hunt wrote "no matter what if they find out we talked, i'm going to jail until trial starts." in another prosecutors say there was this exchange. the...

Offender. her crime, she was having a consensual relationship with another girl at her school, a freshman, a minor. katelyn, her mother, and their lawyer will join me a moment, and today they held a press conference hoping that common sense would prevail. >> the state attorney's office, the sheriff's department, and the other girl involved. >> today, for the first time since her arrest, katelyn hunt responded to the overwhelming support she and her family have received. >> i'm just thankful and grateful that all these people are by my side, and that they've been by my side since day one. overw...

Katelyn, i want to begin with you, and i know you don't want to discuss the details of the case, but having being 34 years old and having experience being in the midst of a public firestorm with a lot of attention, i can only imagine how it feels to be going through that as an 18 year old. >> very overwhelming. and crazy. >> yeah. >> i talked to a lot of people, i try to talk to everybody that i can, all my supporters across the world and here, and i just try to say thank you to everybody, especially to my family and julia for doing everything they can to help me through this situation. >> kel...