BATON ROUGE - School leaders at LSU are denying a claim that a convicted rapist from Oklahoma was enrolled and set to attend the Louisiana's flagship university in the fall. 

"We are aware of a social media post circulating alleging that LSU has admitted an individual convicted of a violent sexual offense. This claim is false. LSU has no record of this individual in our admissions system, nor do we have any indication that the individual plans to enroll or attend the university. We encourage the public to rely on verified information and refrain from sharing misinformation," the school said in a statement Thursday morning. 

A social media post made Wednesday evening claimed that Jesse Mack Butler, a 19-year-old from Oklahoma who pleaded no contest in the rape of two teen girls, would be attending LSU in the fall. It was shared thousands of times across multiple platforms.