The teacher will sit on 60 for a relationship with a 11-year-old boy
'28.08.2018'
Source: Mirror
A school teacher will go to jail for having an affair with an eleven-year-old boy - she will most likely have to spend the rest of her life behind bars.
Jessica Jewel Corin Benton was sentenced to 60 years for committing a crime against a minor child. A Texas court ruled that it would not have a chance to be released as part of parole, writes Mirror.
Benton was arrested in September 2016 after one of the students noticed her behavior and told his mother about it. According to the Dallas District Attorney's office, the woman went to the police.
The teacher was arrested and charged with a first-degree criminal assault with aggravated circumstances. According to the court, she committed her (as the police put it, “sickening”) actions between May and September 2016. All this did not happen on the school grounds, and the boy was not a direct student of Benton, which, of course, does not in the least justify the criminal.
At the time, Benton worked as a teacher assistant in Mesquite ISD's elementary school, Ben F. Tisinger, and her victim went to another school.
After the court heard the evidentiary part, it took only 30 minutes before a conviction and a sentence was chosen. Benson was initially sentenced to 25 years in prison. But when the judge listened to her family members, the defendant’s psychotherapist, and apparently didn’t have any sympathy for Benson, he changed the sentence and increased it to 60 years without parole.
District Attorney Faith Johnson made a statement:
“Even though the District Attorney's Office has a dedicated team, Crimes Against Children, and we work with the Children's Advocacy Center and law enforcement officials around the county, it took a young child real courage to speak on behalf of another child - and this led to an investigation. "
“This verdict should be a powerful message, especially as the students return to school this week. Crimes against children will be prosecuted in full and to the fullest extent of the law, ”the prosecutor added.
