HAMPTON, Iowa – A former daycare worker in Franklin County has been sentenced to up to half a century in prison for child sex abuse.

A jury convicted Benjamin Harold Green, 28 of Hampton, of three counts of second-degree sexual abuse. Law enforcement says Green was arrested in May 2023 and accused of having sexual contact with three children. Court documents state the abuse happened while Green worked at Hampton Community Christian Daycare between 2014 and 2017.

Green pleaded not guilty and his trial was rescheduled eight times before finally starting in June.

Green has now been sentenced to up to 25 years in prison for each of the first two counts of second-degree sex abuse, to be served consecutively, and another 25 years for the third count, to be served concurrently. Green must s

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