A teaching assistant has been jailed for 60 years after she raped an 11-year-old boy.

Jessica-Jewel Corin Benton was arrested in September 2016 when she was caught by another student who told his mother what he had seen.

She then reported Benton to authorities in Mesquite, Texas, who was charged with aggravated sexual assault.

Jessica-Jewel Corin Benton has been jailed for 60 years without parole (Picture: Police handout)

She continued the abuse on multiple occasions from May that year, but the boy was not at the school where she taught.


She told officers that she believed she could have a long-term relationship with the boy who was abused on at least 10 occasions.

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It took less than half an hour for the jury to reach a verdict and deliberate her punishment.



After hearing from the victim’s family and therapist they said that she should be jailed for 60 years with no chance of parole.

She was a kindergarten teacher’s aide at Tisinger Elementary School at the time of her arrest and was married, but separated.

Benton was living with another family with her two children and her victim was friends with the family’s children.

Mesquite Police Lt. Brian Parrish said: ‘We were first notified by an adult whose child had observed some behavior that they didn’t think was quite right.

‘When the child went to the mother, the mother agreed it didn’t seem right and brought it to our attention.’

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