Outrage mounts in Oklahoma over plea deal for man convicted of rape: ‘That’s sketchy as hell’

Jesse Butler, 18, faced 78 years in prison, but judge reduced sentence to community service and counseling

Anger is growing in an Oklahoma community over a sketchy as hell" plea deal allowing an 18-year-old man convicted of multiple charges of rape and assault dating to when he was 17 to perform community service and commit to counseling.

Jesse Butler, of Stillwater, originally faced 78 years in prison after being charged as an adult over 10 allegations including rape, battery by strangulation, rape by instrumentation and domestic assault involving two women.