Mesquite (WBAP/KLIF) – A former Mesquite teacher’s aide has been sentenced to 60 years in prison without the possibility of parole for repeatedly raping an 11 year old boy. It took a jury less than half an hour to convict Jessica-Jewel Benton on Thursday. It sentenced her Friday. She confessed to numerous sexual encounters with the boy over several months in 2016 when she was 26. The boy was a student in the Mesquite district at the time, but not at the school where she was then employed.

Teacher’s aide sentenced to 60 years for sexually assaulting an 11 year old boy
Aug 25, 2018 | 9:22 AM