Sources: Florida QB Kitna dismissed from team

Florida backup backmost Jalen Kitna was dismissed from the squad Friday, sources confirmed to ESPN, pursuing his apprehension this week connected kid pornography charges.

Kitna is facing 2 counts of organisation of kid exploitation worldly and 3 counts of possession of kid pornography. Two of the 5 charges, which inactive request to beryllium formalized by the authorities attorney's office, are second-degree felonies that could effect successful a situation word of up to 15 years and a good of up to $10,000. The different 3 are third-degree felonies.

Kitna was released from jailhouse connected $80,000 enslaved Thursday, with the conditions of his merchandise including an bid not to person immoderate unsupervised interaction with minors and not to person immoderate net access.

His parents, Jon and Jennifer Kitna, promised Judge Meshon Rawls that they would supervise their 19-year-old lad astatine location successful Burleson, Texas. Jon Kitna, who played 14 seasons successful the NFL, serves arsenic a precocious schoolhouse manager successful Burleson.

A redshirt freshman, Jalen Kitna appeared successful 4 games for the Gators this season, completing 10 of 14 passes for 181 yards and a touchdown.

Florida had suspended Kitna indefinitely instantly pursuing his apprehension Wednesday. The Gators had scrubbed Kitna's sanction from their roster and his biography from their website precocious Thursday, conscionable hours aft Kitna's archetypal tribunal appearance.

Although Kitna remained enrolled successful classes Friday, the University of Florida Police Department issued him a trespass informing that bars him from field for 3 years, pending the result of his tribunal case. Kitna besides would request to person to spell done a pupil codification of behaviour proceeding to beryllium eligible to return.

The Orlando Sentinel archetypal reported Kitna's dismissal from the team.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.