Florida Quarterback Jalen Kitna Charged With Sharing Child Porn -- All The Disturbing Details

03.12.2022 - 00:19 / perezhilton.com

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A star quarterback at the University of Florida has been arrested and charged with five counts of sharing child porn.

Jalen Kitna has played sparingly this year as the backup QB behind the Gators‘ star starter. But the team had big expectations for the freshman’s future, not least of which because he comes from a high-profile football family — his dad Jon Kitna quarterbacked in the NFL for 14 seasons.

But that’s all been destroyed by this week’s jaw-dropping news. Jalen was arrested on Wednesday in Gainesville, Florida and charged with five felony counts of possession and distribution of child pornography. At his arrest, Kitna’s bond was set at $80,000. On Thursday, he was released from the Alachua County Jail after meeting the bond requirements.

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Disturbing details are now coming out about what led to Kitna’s arrest. According to the Associated Press, officials at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a tip that images of child pornography were being shared on the social media chat app Discord.

On June 23, they discovered an account with the username jjkit7#8147 had allegedly uploaded the images two days prior to that, on June 21. Cops immediately launched a “thorough” investigation, per TMZ. Quickly, they learned the account belonged to Kitna.

According to the arrest report filed with the charges, Kitna shared the photos while chatting with two other Discord users. One pic showed “a prepubescent girl being sexually abused by a man.” Another image was of “a pubescent juvenile female exposing herself as well.”

By this week, police zeroed in on Kitna’s identity. On