Teacher’s aide sentenced to 60 years for sexually assaulting an 11 year old boy

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.