1. Introduction
I have criticized the Law&Crime Network on YouTube for posting videos and news clips that get too sensationalistic in nature. However, I cannot deny that they do post interesting news pieces now and then.
What really gets me angry is that the criminal justice system, the court system, and every other societal institution in the United States appear to coddle underage rapists; whereas whenever an adult man is arrested in our nation for a sexual offense that doesn't involve any victims, he will be demonized left and right.
I stumbled across two videos on the Law&Crime Network that provide proof in the pudding of this disparate treatment. Now, I can understand that juvenile courts are going to go more leniently on minors for sexual offenses than the regular courts will do so on adults.
Nonetheless, I wanted to present to you two unusual situations that demonstrate how the police, the courts, and other societal institutions will coddle some of the most violent and predatory underage rapists, whereas these same institutions will do everything to demonize adult men merely for flirting with a high-school girl at a shopping mall. Somehow this all doesn't sit very well with me.
2. A Violent Underage Rapist Vs. An Adult Man With Non-Platonic Interests In A Teenage Girl
There have been a number of reports out of Oklahoma about a teenage boy named Jesse Mack Butler who violently raped three minors when he was a minor himself. He even put one of them in the hospital, yet he is not going to prison or even jail for what he did inasmuch as somehow being underage gave him a get-out-of-jail-free card. He was supposed to be tried as an adult, and somehow his matter got remanded to the juvenile court.
Meanwhile, these three teenage girls' lives have been ruined. Below is a video about it.
One Of Jesse Mack Butler's Victims Has Filed A Lawsuit Against Him And His Enablers
Not only did the police, school administrators, and other public officials coddle Jesse Mack Butler and enable his lewd and violent behavior toward his three underage victims, but even a judge gave him a slap on the wrist for committing the most heinous crime he could ever do so against three underage girls. This young man is violent and dangerous, and yet he still is allowed to walk the streets as free as a bird.
I am glad that one of his underage victims decided to bring a Federal lawsuit against him and his enablers. He shouldn't get away with what he did. He never even asked any of those three girls for their consent when he came on to them. He simply turned violent on them immediately and went as far as attempting to strangle one of them to death.
It makes you think of what Robert Chambers did to the late Jennifer Levin back in 1986. That jerk at first called it rough sex, and he had the nerve to claim that she raped him before he had murdered her.
When the police came to arrest Jesse Mack Butler, they were extremely polite with his mother. They were gentle with Jesse Mack Butler when they handcuffed him, which is not something police officers usually do. They even voluntarily handed a document to this young man's mother that she was going to need to show a criminal defense attorney. I wouldn't even doubt that they served Jesse Mack Butler pizza while he was in jail.
In the video above, there was also a report that one of the higher-ups in the local police department discouraged one of the victims' family from pressing charges against Jesse Mack Butler inasmuch as his father was highly regarded in their community. Now how crazy is that?
Now take a look at the video below. In that video, a 36-year-old Wisconsin man appears at a park to meet up with a 13-year-old girl that doesn't even exist. You got it. There was no victim. He never harmed anyone. He got arrested for doing something that would have been perfectly legal for a 13- or 14- and probably a 15-year-old boy after a group of online vigilantes egged him on in a chatroom.
A 36-Year-Old Gentleman Is Needlessly Humiliated In An Online Sex-Sting Operation
Chris Stewart takes every opportunity to sensationalize this story into something that it is not. Now, I'm not going to be someone to encourage anyone to break the law. However, here is the elephant in the room.
Jesse Mack Butler violently and brutally raped three underage girls, and he even put one of them in the hospital with a severe injury. Yet the judge in his criminal matter wouldn't even as so much give him any prison time. He won't have to register as a sex offender.
On the other hand, the 36-year-old gentleman in the video above, Heath M. Grebe, never harmed anyone. There was no real underage victim. Yet the police and the prosecutor were attempting to slap him with a lengthy sentence that could have landed him behind bars for up to four decades. He'll have to register as a sex offender, even though there was no victim.
Another point we need to highlight is that the United States doesn't have the most rational statutory-rape laws in the world. Therefore, that fact alone is a recipe for civil disobedience in response to these same sex laws.
When I heard that the vigilante group that confronted Mr. Grebe was called "Bikers Against Predators," I couldn't stop laughing. If you've seen the movie titled Born Losers from 1967, you'll know immediately that it was common back in the 1960s and the 1970s for bikers to kidnap 12-year-old girls and turn them into baby machines. They give hypocrisy a new meaning.
Throughout the entire sex-sting operation, the predator catchers, so to speak, continue to infantilize the non-existent 13-year-old girl. When they were posing as the 13-year-old girl in an online chatroom, they talked about the girl possibly getting pregnant; so they had to know that they were not talking about a toddler.
The female member of the vigilante group had the audacity to claim that if Mr. Grebe had met an actual 13-year-old girl and he had sexual intercourse with her, she may have committed suicide in reaction to the encounter. Oh, brother. It's not as though sexual intercourse is going to make a teenage girl's head drop off.
There is a major difference between teenage sex and child molestation, and being in a cross-generational relationship doesn't turn teenage sex into child molestation. Then again, the late Aubreigh Wyatt committed suicide at the age of 13. Of course, she was brutally raped. Her assailant was the same age as her, so he didn't get any jail time. Why don't the Bikers Against Predators parade his face on camera for the whole world to see? I guess it wouldn't get them as many views.
Ladies and gentlemen? Let's stop idolizing these predator-catcher groups. They are nothing but domestic terrorists, and they are helping nobody.
Now, I completely get it. Mr. Grebe was on his second marriage, and he was a father when he got arrested in connection with the above-described online sex-sting operation. Therefore, I guess he would be expected to adhere to a certain code of conduct in his role as a father and as a husband. However, he never victimized anyone. Jesse Mack Butler did.
The amount of bond that Mr. Grebe was held on was $50,000, whereas the amount of bond that Jesse Mack Butler was held on was only $25,000. How does that make any sense? Mr. Grebe is not a danger to society, whereas Jesse Mack Butler is. Mr. Grebe has been ordered not to have any contact with minors, whereas Jesse Mack Butler received no such restrictions from the court.
The prosecution slapped Mr. Grebe with trumped-up felony charges in the form of Second Degree Sexual Assault Of A Child, whereas Jesse Mack Butler was merely convicted of misdemeanors, none of which had the word "child" in their wording.
Hmmm. Is a teenage girl a child whenever she has consensual relations with an older adult man, whereas she becomes a full-grown adult after a boy the same age as her violently rapes her? The criminal justice system likes to do whatever it finds convenient for itself.
Now, I know that some of you are going to complain that Mr. Grebe got five years probation instead of prison time. Quite frankly, I don't feel that he should have been arrested or charged with crimes at all, but that's just me.
The major problem I'm having here is that the disparity of sentencing against Mr. Grebe and Jesse Mack Butler is so huge that you have to question the professional integrity of our law-enforcement officials. Below is a video in which Norman Michael Achin talks about the inconsistency in sentencing in sex cases involving minors and how our system reeks of hypocrisy and double standards.
Norman Michael Achin Exposes All The Flaws In Both Our Criminal Justice System And Our Court System
I found it interesting when Mr. Achin reported in his video above that a research study concluded that people between 32 years of age and 64 years of age were considered to be young adults. LOL! I guess nobody can rightfully accuse a man slightly over 50 years of age of having one foot in the grave.
There can be no question that the United States has a two-tier system of justice in our law-enforcement institutions and in our courts. This problem, however, goes much deeper than we care to realize, and the fact that the system would treat a violent sexual predator like Jesse Mack Butler much better than it did Mr. Grebe is the proof on its face for you. It makes me want to scream.
3. Final Thoughts
It is good that YouTube is starting to remove all these predator-catcher channels from their platform and even deleting videos of online sex-sting operations from their platform as well. However, we all need to do our part.
We need to stop watching and supporting YouTube channels that show these online sex-sting operations. They are circus shows. They are not helping anyone. They are doing more harm than good to our society.
Whenever these self-righteous do-gooders, self-proclaimed child advocates, and the likes run their mouths about the United States being good at protecting its kids, tell them to put a sock in it. If what they said were true, then elected officials would have reformed our nation's inheritance laws and would have eliminated parental testamentary freedom in every jurisdiction years ago. They don't care about facts.
Chris Hansen and John Walsh are not heroes. They are merely TV personalities that are looking to make names for themselves. They are no better people than you and I are.
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