A lot of people are upset after learning that a Stillwater teenager pled no contest to several counts of rape and strangulation, only to be sentenced to a year of counseling with no jail time.

Jesse Butler was charged as a youthful offender after two victims reported that he sexually assaulted them repeatedly and threatened to hurt them if they told.

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We're calling the victims "Jane" and "Sarah."

In Jane's victim impact statement, she says she wasn't only abused and strangled by Jesse Butler, but doctors told her she was 30 seconds away from dying when he strangled her. She says that, even though she survived, the abuse haunts her, and she will never be the same.

An affidavit says the first victim, "Jane," dated Jesse Butler for about thre

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