Benet v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Justice MINTON.

I. INTRODUCTION.

Benjamin Cole Benet appeals from a circuit court judgment sentencing him to twenty years’ imprisonment for first-degree sodomy and five years’ imprisonment for first-degree sexual abuse, to be served consecutively, for a total of twenty-five years’ imprisonment. Finding no error, we affirm.

II. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY.

A woman in a Wal-Mart parking lot thought she saw Benet molesting a little boy. The little boy was a five-year old, whom we will call J.T. Based on the woman’s report, Benet eventually was arrested and indicted for one…