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(NewsNation) — Despite being sentenced to nearly 80 years in prison after admitting to a string of sex crimes against teenage girls, an Oklahoma 18-year-old avoided time behind bars, triggering outrage in the college town of Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Jesse Mack Butler, 18, from Stillwater, about an hour north of Oklahoma City, escaped prison time after pleading no contest to multiple rape and assault charges.

Why Jesse Butler isn't going to prison

In March, when Butler was 17, he was charged, a

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