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Jesse Butler was charged on 10 counts — two counts of attempted rape, three counts of rape by instrumentation, one count of sexual battery, one count of forcible oral sodomy, two counts of domestic assault and battery by strangulation and one count of domestic assault and battery — in February. The dates of the offenses were throughout 2024. He was 17 when he committed the crimes.

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The Office of Juvenile Affairs created a rehabilitation plan and presented it to the judge Monday. The plan included more than 100 hours of community service, a curfew, no social media, daily check-ins and weekly counseling until his 19th birthday. It was approved.

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[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In the victim's statement, she revealed Butler threatened to kill her, her family or himself if she told anyone. She spoke of a scenario in which Butler strangled her until she was unconscious. According to the statement, she had to have surgery on her neck and a medical professional told her she was 30 seconds away from dying.

[–] markko@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Which is why...

The court sentenced Butler to 78 years Aug. 25, but as long as he complies with his rehabilitation plan, he will not serve any jail time.

...which was omitted from your summary. This guy is clearly getting a ridiculously light sentence, but this quote is vital information that shows how serious his offences were.

While rehabilitation is a much better way to prevent re-offending compared with incarceration, this guy needs way more than just a year of counseling and a few weeks of community service.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

78 years and no jail time? That doesn't set off any red flags for you?

[–] danhab99@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

See I knew I didn't have to fucking read it

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Why would that even be included in the summary to begin with? It doesn't make people feel good or bad to read it?

It's just repulsive unmarketable information.

Why the fuck should I read the rest of the article? I know I'll get no objective or subjective value from it, if I want the bottom of the bone dry fucking barrel I would have to read the court transcripts.

I DON'T HAVE TIME TO ASK CHATGPT TO FIND THAT FOR ME!! I have to socialize with my friends and touch grass and be healthy!

Honestly OP at this point you shouldn't've posted this thread. Lemmy isn't going to fail because of lack of engagement and low user count, it's going to fail because there are no more worthwhile links to post.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

The point is to raise awareness.

Jesse Butler is a dangerous rapist. Just like Brock Turner, he received essentially no punishment and remains a danger to society. The state failed in its obligation to punish Jesse Butler and protect society from him. Hopefully if a judge understands that giving the kid-glove treatment to a dangerous rapist results in public opprobrium, they will reconsider letting dangerous rapists off because their family is connected with local college sports.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I miss when journalists put relevant information in their articles

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] markko@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Without the right corrective measure that is quite possible.