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Nicky was 14 when nevada District Court Paul Goldman sentenced Butler to one life term for each of 21 counts of "sexual assault" that Butler allegedly committed with the boy. The state claimed that Butler and Nicky had mutual oral sex while Nicky was between 11 and 13 years of age. Butler does not dispute that the two had sex, though he denies having the specific acts for which he was convicted. [...] And whatever sex he and Nicky had, Butler says, was consensual.
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According to a 1987 affidavit, [Nicky] described his relationship with Butler as "mutual and consenting".
Nicky..ßaid he was shocked to learn Butler was in jail and offered to send him the small savings the young man had accumulated pumping gas. According to the affidavit, Nicky had no idea the statement that he says police pressured him into signing would do anything but keep Butler from seeing him.
[Butler says] "When I first accepted him to train at age 11 he was an unhappy, moody, abusively neglected waif in a trailer park. He became a different boy, happy, and a good student."
[...] his grandmother became suspictious of his relationship with Butler and asked police to investigate. A grand jury indicted Butler, but when the trial began, Nicky refused to give incriminating testimony, and the judge dismissed the case.
But police did not give up. For six weeks, Clark County Detective F.W.McClatchey pressured Nicky to admit to sex. On the basis of a statement Nicky signed, Butler was re-arrested in December 1979.
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From The Guide, October 1989
Reprinted in NAMBLA Bulletin Vol 14 Nr. 4 (1994)