Going out on a limb here and guessing the guy is white and his family is well off. I'd go check but... we all know I don't need to.
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Damn I got more community service for getting caught with weed at school
Agony of the unrich.
1 year of therapy seems very light for 1 count let alone 10.
I underatand that sending kids to jail is never a fix. However, this seems wrong. Multiple years of required therapy, supervision, no social media, no dating until cleared by a panel of pyschiatrist, and having to sit in on survivors group therapy should ne a starting point.
If he’s a psychopath (and there’s a good chance he is) then therapy is unlikely to work. Psychopaths treat therapy as either a waste of time or an opportunity to work on their manipulation skills. They can’t be cured because their brains are just different.
We should try to identify the gene and cure it.
It may not be a single gene. A lot of stuff that affects the brain is polygenic and very complicated, just as there is no single gene for intelligence.
Being a psychopath may also confer reproductive advantages for some people. Most psychopaths are not murderers but are somewhat well adapted to blending into society. It’s kind of like how parasitism works in nature, but this is at a social level.
The fuck. I had a sword in my car that I forgot, 20+ years ago, and got more community service. They wanted me in jail for 5 years.
A friend of mine wandered around college campus with a sword sticking out above the backpack. You could see the sword handle from 40 feet away.
I recall a university lock down because umbrella had swords handle.
Jebus. America, or London? My memory is from 1993 Calgary.
Good to things don't change. Lol
Lol Good to things don't change. this one was 2008 ish.
My heart goes out to the victim.
Justice was not served, and this is another example of how affluent people are allowed to commit crimes.
Hopefully karma comes back to stab this rapist in the ass.
Fuck "karma" if karma was real, they deserved to be raped and the rapist just fulfilled karma
Lots of reddit-tier comments tonight.
I don't usually have to ignore people this often, but you all are making it easy.
I'm all for charging children as children, the idea of charging a child as an adult is simply abhorrent to me. However, feel like most 17 year olds being charged at 17 year olds would still get a harsher penalty than that..
He should be committed to the loony bin under maximum security until he changes, if ever
WTF
Not another tragic case of affluenza?!?
Definitely
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.
I hope they keep him on a real short leash. This guy should absolutely be in prison.
The blurb makes it sound like it's all over at 19. What a crock.
I would've done so much murdering and bank robbing at 17 if I'd known I could've just said "but I'm not 18, I'm only a child, I don't know what is right or wrong. Please let me go, I need my mummy" if I could've got away with it. I'm such a fool!
You would have? That's fucked up.
Definitely. I still do all that bank robbing and murdering every day, but now I'm over 18 I know that it's slightly naughty so I make sure not to get caught. Just yesterday I murdered 7 people and robbed 3 banks!!!! Tomorrow I'm going to rob 7 banks and murder 3 people.
Don't tell anyone, ok? I'm over 18 so the police may be a tad angry with me about it 😢
One thing I always stay weary of is all the details that were removed from the court records to fit it into a news report. Like you can't include everything and what I find out whenever I look deeper then it's not as horrible as what I thought it was.. then next time I see an article like this I don't read it bc I already know that this article is going to be just as bad as the last ones.
It's kinda like 'wolf' has been cried to me basically all my life.. like what kind of emergency/bad-thing do I actually need to respond too.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I miss when journalists put relevant information in their articles
If he had been a woman who shot an abuser in self defense, he would have ended up in prison.
This entire situation is insane. He is going to end up killing someone, someday.
Without the right corrective measure that is quite possible.
78 years and no jail time? That doesn't set off any red flags for you?
Jesse the rapist Butler?
Just like the rapist, Brock "The Rapist" Turner?
Of course it's in Oklahoma! At least Ryan Walters was given the boot, but this is beyond the pail even for a backwater state like that
They fired Walters?
He resigned to take a position at an anti-union teachers union. There’s massive conflict of interest concerns, because he was doing things that benefited his new employer while still superintendent.
No Oklahoma Congress critter had the spine to do jack shit about him. Even the investigation into the porn was a joke, the investigators were basically like “what evidence do you want to give us? Let us know when you’d like us to come by!”
No, there were no consequences and he used his public position to get a job with an organization dedicated to destroying education from the outside, after looting state funds to pay his friends state salaries.
Holy shit. We reeeeally need to start voting better, on all levels of government.
Thank you for the info, though. Much appreciated.
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- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Resigned in disgrace I believe after having been caught watching porn in his office.
What young man doesn't go around doing a little raping in his formative years? Nbd it's just some rape. Totally normal. Yep. Not strange at all. I'm sure they're not a danger to anyone.
This is disgusting