GIDDINGS – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton successfully prosecuted a Lexington man for child sexual abuse crimes, securing two consecutive life sentences plus 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Benjamin Earlie Thornton, 67, was found guilty of two counts of Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child and one count of Indecency with a Child by Contact by a Lee County jury. The jury returned the maximum sentence on all three counts after deliberating […]
