Overview
- Butts pleaded guilty across six cases, admitting to second-degree murder and five counts of criminal sexual conduct involving multiple minors.
- He received four 10–15-year sentences for second-degree criminal sexual conduct and one 10–15-year sentence for third-degree criminal sexual conduct, all to run concurrently with the murder term.
- Prosecutors said he will not be eligible for parole until he has served 35 years in prison.
- Harris’s body has not been found since she disappeared in January 2024, and the plea obligates Butts to disclose its location.
- Prosecutors allege he groomed Harris starting in 2022, that she was pregnant when killed, and that he searched for abortions, abortion pills, and drinking red antifreeze before her death.