Hey everybody, I'm Ashley Banfield, and this is Drop Dead serious. I have got to tell you about a man named

Jesse Mac Butler. Remember that name, Jesse Mac Butler, because you're going to hear it a lot.

He is 18 years old and he is from Stillwater, Oklahoma. That is a college town. It's home to Oklahoma

State University, which is about an hour north of Oak City if you're driving. Back in March,

when Jesse Mack Butler was just 17 years old,

he was charged as an adult with a string of sadistic sex crimes against two girls,

fellow students at Stillwater High School.

One of those girls was choked unconscious and almost died, according to her doctor.

Jesse Butler was charged with 10 felony counts in all, and it is important to hear what those

counts are, to hear the list of charges that he faced because they were so

serious. Two attempted rapes. Three charges of rape by instrumentation, which I will leave you to

think that through. There's an instrument.

There's a rape.

That's the charge.

One count of sexual battery, one count of forcible oral sodomy.

That's a tough one because most people think of that as something from behind. You can think through that charge as something that

happened with the mouth. Two counts of domestic assault and battery by strangulation,

and one count of domestic assault and battery. And let me be real clear, there were bigger, more widespread charges that the state

could have thrown at this person, like attempted murder. The two alleged victims and their

families had every reason to believe that the wheels of justice were hard at work for them, right? For them, but also for Jesse Mac Butler. He deserved justice. Everybody does in this country.

But before I tell you what actually ended up happening, let me tell you why Jesse Mac Butler

faced those 10 charges, what he actually did to those girls. You should know that what I'm

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