Teen Who Raped, Strangled and Brutalized 2 Girls Was Facing 7 Decades in Prison — Then a Judge Let Him Walk Free
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An Oklahoma community is outraged after a teen from a prominent local family was relieved of a decades-long prison sentence despite several convictions for rape and assault charges, per local reports.
Jesse Butler, 18, was arrested on March 4 following reports of assault by two high-school students in Stillwater, Okla., according to an official report reviewed by PEOPLE.
Butler was 17 years old at the time of his arrest and was charged as an adult, per court documents cited by KOCO. His status was then changed to youthful offender, per The Journal Record, Oklahoma Watch and KOCO.
In August, Butler pleaded no contest to 11 counts against him, per the official report, which was obtained and shared online by FOX 25.
The offenses included first-degree rape, domestic assault and battery by strangulation, attempted rape in the first degree and rape by instrumentation, the outlet reported.
Butler was facing 78 years in prison for the convictions, but the judge let him go without any jail time, and ordered him to perform community service and attend counseling instead, per Oklahoma Watch, KJRH and FOX 25.
The lenient sentence was thanks to the plea deal between the prosecution and defense teams, KJRH and The Journal Record reported.
The families of his victims are outraged at the sentence, and victims' advocates say Butler was allowed to go free because of his family's prominence in Stillwater, The Journal Record reported. Butler's father is the former director of operations for Oklahoma State University's football team, the outlet reported.
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Exposing a global ‘rape academy’
In shocking group chats, men encourage one another to drug and assault their wives – and swap tips on getting away with it
The world was confronted by this form of internet-enabled abuse in 2024 during the mass rape and drugging trial of Dominique Pelicot and 50 other men in southern France.
It was on a so-called dating website, in a chatroom called “Without Her Knowledge,” that Pelicot was able to connect with dozens of other men to instigate the rapes of his then-wife, Gisèle. While drugged unconscious by him, she was raped over 200 times by 70 men, not all of whom could be tracked down by police.
The Pelicot case briefly shone a spotlight on this dark corner of the internet. But while Coco, the website involved, was shut down and public attention moved elsewhere, this behavior did not disappear.
A monthslong CNN As Equals investigation has uncovered a hidden, online world where the commodification and amplification of sexual violence against women is flourishing.
One porn site, Motherless. com, is home to more than 20,000 videos of so-called “sleep” content uploaded by users, with hundreds of thousands of views.
The website, which had around 62 million visits in February alone and whose core audience is in the United States, describes itself as a “moral free file host where anything legal is hosted forever.”
The legality of some material posted is in serious doubt.One Motherless user claimed to be running a business selling and dispatching “sleeping liquids” to any address in the world. The man, who said he was based in Ceuta, a tiny Spanish exclave on the North African coast, said on his Telegram account that it would cost 150 euros (approximately $175) for a bottle of the liquid that he said was tasteless and odorless. “Your wife won’t feel anything and won’t remember anything,” he said.
While the platforms vary, inside such groups, video is king. Some users advertised livestreams, showing the abuse of drugged women in real time, for $20 per viewer, with cryptocurrency the preferred means of payment.
Last edited by raisedbywolves; 04-24-2026 at 06:28 AM.
Done. It's crazy how different things look for each of us. It wasn't showing a clickable link for me but I added a couple of spaces anyway. Sometimes when BWS posts pics from FB there is nothing there for me and then I come back into the thread later and it's visible. Odd.
Yeah it was showing up blue for me, and I even hovered over it to see if the address showed (without clicking of course lol) and it did. Maybe it was just me? It's a silly thing to be bothered by, but because of the nature of the website it just gave me the ick.
Also, it's terrifying the amount of "husbands" that are willing to do that to their wives! WTF? If they would do that to them, they would have no problem doing that to a stranger.
Haha!
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