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“You are sentencing a human being with a family and with a long time of valid meaningful service to this community.”

“You are sentencing a man, not a plague of sexual assaults or a plague of murdered and missing Indigenous women, or a plague of domestic violence,” Flemming said, according to a press release from the Department of Law. Benton’s attorney requested a minimum sentence of 2.5 years to serve, and implored the court to consider who they were sentencing. Several members of the community gave testimony or provided letters of support for Benton, who they claim was a hard worker and respected coach and mentor. “I was a 15-year-old girl who trusted a horrible person. He violated me, my innocence, my trust, and faith in people.”

I sunk into a deep depression made worse by threats to keep quiet,” the young woman said.