This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruskey.

Here now, Tony Bruske.

There are crimes that make you angry, and then there are cases that make you lose faith in the entire idea of justice.

In Stillwater, Oklahoma, Jesse Butler was charged with 11 felonies, S.A., attempted S-A, S-Battery, and assault and battery

by strangulation after attacking two 16-year-old girls. One victim was choked unconscious,

the other needed neck surgery. That's how bad it was. Doctor said seconds longer, seconds longer, she would have died.

Police even found partial phone video showing the assault because he wanted to tape it.

What kind of evidence or with that kind of evidence you'd expect decades behind bars

far reaching penalties and punishments that would never leave this man's path, the system gave him mercy.

Butler entered a no contest plea,

meaning he didn't admit guilt but accepted conviction.

Because he was 17 at the time.

His lawyers argued he qualified as a youthful offender.

And the judge agreed.

78 years were suspended. He'll serve one year of supervision,

no prison, no record that follows him into adulthood, except for YouTube videos and coverage like this.

Eleven felonies, one year. That's not rehabilitation. That's privilege masquerading as compassion.

And what makes it worse is how easily everyone around him family officials, the community,

just seem to accept it. The mother's body cam quotes at all, I'll get you out, she said. She said.

And she, she did. So today we are asking, how does this happen? How do parents, courts, and communities learn to protect the predator

instead of the people he's hurt? Joining us, psychotherapist and author, Chavon Scott, here to

break down the psychology behind denial, privilege,

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