Well, I thought the same thing but one of the charges was a felony so, that sheds a different light on the matter. You don’t get a felony for “flashing” or running across the football field nude, for example. There had to be something pretty serious here.
Oh, I assumed that he had sex with the girls in question and then pled out. But, given that we’re seemingly talking about fourteen year-olds with other fourteen year-olds, I don’t think that it’s really a matter for the courts - it’s a matter for parents.
My assumptuon, and perhaps it’s flawed (but, I don’t really think so) is that if there was any allegation of force or anything more serious, that would have been mentioned.