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Jesse Butler pleaded no contest to several charges include rape, strangulation and rape by instrumentation

He faced 78 years in prison, but a judge ruled he can perform community service and attend counseling instead

Butler is the son of a prominent local family — which victims' advocates say helped him evade a decades-long sentence

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

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