America OUTRAGE IN OKLAHOMA
Brutal Serial Rapist Gets Slap on Wrist
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Woke judge and prosecutor turn him loose with no jail time. BY ALICE GIORDANO
ne of jesse butler’s young rape victims was so badly injured when he tried to strangle her that
she had to undergo neck surgery. The 5-foot-10 all-star baseball play-
er used his cellphone to film himself doing the same to a second girl. He was charged with 10 felony
counts of rape, strangulation, sodomy, and rape by instrumentation, and would eventually admit to raping at least two girls, with pending charges for raping a third. While he was 17 at the time, the
assaults were deemed so brutal that he was tried as an adult. He was convict- ed and sentenced to 78 years in prison. But the unapologetic Butler never
served a single day in jail. Instead, he was sent home — thanks to a woke
judge and a soft-on-crime prosecutor. Much to the outrage of the Stillwa-
ter, Oklahoma, community, Payne County Judge Susan Worthington, at the recommendation of prosecutor Laura Thomas, reclassified the now- 18-year-old as a “youthful offender,” which allowed them to vacate his sentence.
The young man instead only had to
undergo counseling and 150 hours of community service. Once Butler turns 19, the record of
the assaults will be expunged. They won’t even turn up in background checks. State Rep. Justin Humphrey, who
worked as a probation officer and is currently a reserve sheriff’s deputy, led a chorus of public calls for the judge and prosecutor to be investigated and brought up on criminal charges. “It ought to piss off every person
in the United States,” the Oklaho- ma Republican charged on Justin Shepherd’s podcast, JustInTheNick- OfCrime.
He has since spearhead- FREED Jesse Butler flanked by his mother and sister in court.
ed a petition to remove Worthington, Thomas, and other state judges and prosecutors from office. He also wants to see judges lose their judicial immunity, so victims or their family members can sue them. He told Newsmax that
the country has to do more than the knee- jerk call to impeach the country’s grow- ing league of rogue judges and prosecu- tors who are
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freeing violent offenders. “It’s time to start putting them in
jail,” he said. “There are just too many corrupt ones making super dangerous rulings.” Adding to the outrage in the Still-
water case is that the move to let But- ler off the hook was par for the course for Worthington and also for Thomas, both alumni of Oklahoma State Uni- versity, where Butler’s father was a well-known football coach. In 2018, they both cut a deal with a
local 24-year-old male schoolteacher who asked a 13-year-old student to send sexually explicit photos of herself to him, and then tried to lure her to a local park. Seth Swaim was convicted by a jury
and sentenced to 10 years in prison, but after serving only eight months of his term, Thomas recommended probation and Worthington approved it, setting him free. While on probation, Swaim
grabbed a 16-year-old girl and raped her. The 32-year-old is back in jail — not for the assault, but on a proba- tion violation. There have been several other
similar high-profile cases across the United States. In Illinois, Adams County Judge
Robert Adrian was removed from the bench for reversing the conviction of Drew Clinton for the rape of a 16-year- old girl. Clinton already had a lengthy list of convictions for violent crimes. When asked by a local TV station if
he would free his own daughter’s rapist, Adrian replied that his daughter would never “put herself in that situation.” It even happens in conservative
states. In October, Florida Judge Elaine
Barbour released 23-year-old Jacoby Tillman, already a convicted felon, on a low bond after he attacked a 16-year-old female jogger and choked her unconscious. Barbour released Tillman on the low bond even after he said he wasn’t trying to rape the woman, but instead was attempting to kill her.
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