Jesse Butler was charged on 10 counts — two counts of attempted rape, three counts of rape by instrumentation, one count of sexual battery, one count of forcible oral sodomy, two counts of domestic assault and battery by strangulation and one count of domestic assault and battery — in February. The dates of the offenses were throughout 2024. He was 17 when he committed the crimes.
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The Office of Juvenile Affairs created a rehabilitation plan and presented it to the judge Monday. The plan included more than 100 hours of community service, a curfew, no social media, daily check-ins and weekly counseling until his 19th birthday. It was approved.
1 year of therapy seems very light for 1 count let alone 10.
I underatand that sending kids to jail is never a fix. However, this seems wrong. Multiple years of required therapy, supervision, no social media, no dating until cleared by a panel of pyschiatrist, and having to sit in on survivors group therapy should ne a starting point.
If he’s a psychopath (and there’s a good chance he is) then therapy is unlikely to work. Psychopaths treat therapy as either a waste of time or an opportunity to work on their manipulation skills. They can’t be cured because their brains are just different.
We should try to identify the gene and cure it.
It may not be a single gene. A lot of stuff that affects the brain is polygenic and very complicated, just as there is no single gene for intelligence.
Being a psychopath may also confer reproductive advantages for some people. Most psychopaths are not murderers but are somewhat well adapted to blending into society. It’s kind of like how parasitism works in nature, but this is at a social level.