A judge dismissed the remaining state case against Jesse Mack Butler on Monday, ending the matter one day before his 19th birthday after he completed a court-approved rehabilitation plan at home.
The dismissal closed a felony case that had followed Butler since March 2025, when he was arrested after two girls he had dated accused him of sexual and physical abuse. Court papers said he had faced 10 felony counts and one misdemeanor count, including attempted first-degree rape, rape by instrumentation, sexual battery, forcible oral sodomy, domestic assault and battery by strangulation and a domestic assault and battery charge.
For readers looking at why the case was still being watched on Monday, the answer is simple: the legal outcome landed at a moment that changed Butler's status from defendant to someone whose state case had been formally cleared away. The victims, identified in court documents as L.S. and K.S., said the abuse took place over several months in 2024, and they reported it to a school resource officer in September 2024. That report led police in Stillwater into the case.
The case did not unwind quietly. L.S. told a detective that she and Butler dated from January to March 2024 and that he repeatedly assaulted her during that period. She said he tried to rape her in a vehicle on Feb. 2, 2024, then tried again later at his home after a woman approached the car and may have heard her yelling, crying and saying “no.” She also said he warned that if she went to police, “they would both be in trouble,” and that he strangled her unconscious on Feb. 29, 2024, after she refused sexual acts.
That record is why the parents of K.S. now say they were misled. Their lawyer said they believed Butler would enter a guilty plea and undergo some kind of inpatient-type treatment, but that is not what happened. Butler pleaded no contest and finished the plan at home, a result that left them saying the case was resolved on terms they did not expect.
Butler's lawyer called it a very difficult case and said the defense maintained innocence while entering the plea to manage the risk in the matter. He now plans to seek expungement of Butler's record, which would push the fight from the criminal courtroom to a new legal question: whether the closed case stays part of Butler's history or disappears from it. K.S.'s parents, meanwhile, are preparing to file a civil lawsuit against Butler and his family.
