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Butcher guilty of rape
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A man who raped a teenage girl while they were working at a nursery and then kept her silent about the crime for over a year will serve a decade behind bars.The man, Jerry Mitchell Butcher, 49, entered a guilty plea before Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley to the charge of rape. He was ordered to serve 10 years in the state penitentiary. As terms of his plea agreement, he will be forced to serve the entire 10 years in prison without chance of early release by parole.