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Alex ScarboroughESPN Staff Writer
- Covers the SEC.
- Joined ESPN successful 2012.
- Graduate of Auburn University.
Florida backup backmost Jalen Kitna was arrested Wednesday connected 2 counts of organisation of kid exploitation worldly and 3 counts of possession of kid pornography.
Kitna, the 19-year-old lad of erstwhile NFL backmost Jon Kitna, was arrested by the Gainesville Police Department and booked into the Alachua County jailhouse astatine 3:20 p.m. ET. He is expected to look successful tribunal connected Thursday greeting to perceive the charges against him, the GPD said.
He has been suspended indefinitely from the shot program.
"We are shocked and saddened to perceive of the quality involving Jalen Kitna," the University of Florida Athletic Association said successful a statement. "These are highly superior charges and the University of Florida and the UAA person zero tolerance for specified behavior."
According to a quality merchandise from the Gainesville Police Department, constabulary received a extremity from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that a idiosyncratic had distributed an representation of kid intersexual maltreatment worldly connected Discord.
Police allege that an probe revealed Kitna was the probable proprietor of the Discord account.
The Gainesville Police Department said Kitna was interviewed by officers and said helium thought the images helium shared were "legal" due to the fact that helium recovered them online. Police accidental they searched Kitna's physics devices and recovered 3 much images of kid intersexual maltreatment material.
A redshirt freshman, Kitna appeared successful 4 games this season, completing 10 of 14 passes for 181 yards and a touchdown.
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