Too Pretty for Lowell Prison: Swimsuit Model Ashley Benefield aka Ashley Byers Guilty Faces 30 Years for Manslaughter with a firearm

Too Pretty for Lowell Prison: Swimsuit Model Ashley Benefield aka Ashley Byers, 33, Guilty Faces 30 Years for Manslaughter, she has been taken into custody by the Manatee County Sheriff Dept. If given the max sentence of 30 years, manslaughter with a firearm, Ashley Benefield aka Ashley Byers would be 63 years old. After the verdict was announced, the judge overseeing the case revoked Ashley's $100,000 bond and remanded her to the custody of the Manatee County Sheriff's Office. A date has not been set for her sentencing. I have been a private investigator for almost 3 decades and I have handled hundreds of child custody cases in the Sarasota - Bradenton Fl area, but I have never seen a parent go to such extremes, as Ashley Benefield has to have her husband Doug arrested. False claims of sexual abuse of the child by Doug and several other unsubstantiated claims spewed from the mouth of Ashley Benefield aka Ashley Byers from 2018 to 2024. On Wednesday July 24 2024 Detective Chris Gillum, a domestic violence investigator, also takes the stand and says Ashley Benefield told him, 'I can't believe you're willing to allow Doug to kill me and the baby.' One MCSO detective said the Ashley would call the sheriff's office 30 to 40 times at one period to demand that Doug be arrested at a Hearing in front of the Judge. I knew Ashley Byers during pretty much all of 2016 when I was involved with the Trump campaign and she was the office manager at the State Street Trump campaign office in Sarasota, I never saw this side of Ashley.

Too Pretty For Lowell Prison: Ashley Benefield's Defense Asks Judge to Recuse Themselves from Case. Before the start of jury selection Monday, July 22nd 2024 Ashley Benefield aka Ashley Byers aka Christina Alessia's attorney asked the judge to voluntarily disqualify himself from the trial - accusing him of being biased against Ashley Benefield at a prior Stand Your Ground hearing. Judge Whyte dismissed Ashley Benefield's stand-your-ground claim last year. Ashley Benefield aka Ashley Byers still has/had an active account at ModelMayhem.com under the name "Christina Alessia" as of July 23rd 2024.

Instead of placing the entire burden on the defendant Ashley Benefield, the FL Stand Your Ground law now requires a defendant to establish only a prima facie case of self-defense immunity. At that point, the burden shifts to the prosecution to demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that the defendant does not qualify for immunity. Judge Stephen Whyte refused to dismiss the charges following a two-day “Stand Your Ground” hearing in July 2023. In his ruling, Judge Whyte wrote that the evidence “proves clearly and convincingly that the defendant is not entitled to court-ordered immunity from criminal prosecution, as she was not justified in using deadly force against the victim on September 27, 2020.” Despite the ruling, Ashley’s defense filed documents indicating they will be presenting evidence that the defendant suffers from “battered spouse syndrome.” Included on the defense’s witness list, along with expert witnesses, is Assistant State Attorney Suzanne O’Donnell, who is prosecuting the case. O’Donnell declined to press charges against Douglas after Ashley’s earlier claims of abuse.

Ashley Benefield aka Ashley Byers aka Christina Alessia is a well known swimsuit model, she was featured on the cover of Fashion Magazine Issue 1 in December 2015, which led to several other fashion/swimsuit photo assignments. Ashley Benefield aka Ashley Byers still has/had an active account at ModelMayhem.com under the name "Christina Alessia" as of July 23rd 2024. Too Pretty for Lowell Prison: Ashley Benefield aka Ashley Byers aka Christina Alessia stand your ground defense ruled not applicable by Judge. Over and over Stand Your Ground has been used as an effective affirmative defense for killing someone in Florida. Dubbed by critics as a “get out of jail free card,” Florida's stand your ground self-defense law is controversial to say the least.

Ashley Benefield aka Ashley Byers aka Christina Alessia a well known swimsuit model was also featured on the cover of PUMP magazine in December 2015. PUMP an esteemed international fashion and beauty lifestyle publication circulating through countless major fashion capitals and communities around the world. PUMP proudly provides a place for all. The weekly PUMP magazine applauds relevant and visually stunning features on photography, style and beauty.

Without the 'Stand Your Ground' Affirmative defense Ashley Benefield has no defense for shooting Doug Benefield. There are a number of cases in Florida, such as the death of Trayvon Martin, where a defendant successfully used the stand your ground defense as justification for using deadly force. Judge Whyte dismissed Ashley Benefield's stand-your-ground claim last year. Four shots were fired by Ashley Benefield aka Ashley Byers at Doug Benefield – four .45 caliber casings were found on the master bedroom floor, a police affidavit said. A loose projectile was also found on the floor and two more were found embedded in the walls of the home.

Ashley Byers met Doug Bennefield, the day was August 25, 2016, he was 54 years old and Ashley was 24 years old. Remember this date. After their first meeting, they exchanged phone numbers and began to text each other. Doug met Ashley, a ballet dancer, at a Trump 2016 Republican Party fundraiser. The pair were married less than two weeks later after falling madly in love. She was 30 years younger than him.

A FORMER swimsuit model and ex-ballerina who allegedly shot dead her estranged husband in a fraught custody battle was a 2016 campaign office manager for Donald Trump, reports say. Ashley Christina Benefield (née Byers) aka Christina Alessia, 32, turned herself in Lakewood Ranch, Florida, after cops there found probable cause for her arrest in Manatee County. Ashley Benefield aka Ashley Byers accused of fatally shooting her husband Doug Benefield, 59, on September 27 was a Trump Campaign Office Manager in Sarasota and a former Director of Florida Women for Trump in 2016. According to Ashley's journal, she was traveling on Trump's plane when Trump showered her with compliments. As she wrote: "He called me a 'bombshell'…'his little girl' and 'his baby.'" I was aware, in conversations with Ashley Byers in 2016 at the Trump HQ in Sarasota, that she had a Florida concealed weapon or firearm license and that she owned a pistol. Apparently during one of the times when Ashley Byers first met Doug Benefield in 2016, she told him she had a gun concealed in her bra.

I worked at the Trump Headquarters in Sarasota during 2016 with Ashley Benefield aka Ashley Byers doing security work. In several conversations with Ashley Benefield aka Ashley Byers she told me her boyfriend at the time was a Navy SEAL. I took this reference to a Navy SEAL to be Doug Benefield. This proved to be incorrect as Doug Benefield was Navy pilot.

Ashley Byers, the swimsuit model, was on Trump payroll's as a Florida office manager getting $3,000 a month plus expenses, investigators said. She reportedly traveled on least one occasion to other states for Trump rallies, according to private investigator Bill Warner at 'Bill Warner Investigations', a sleuthing firm based in Sarasota Florida. Ashley Benefield aka Ashley Byers still has/had an active account at ModelMayhem.com under the name "Christina Alessia" while managing the Trump campaign office in the Sunshine State for the president in Sarasota during 2016. The ModelMayhem.com page under the name "Christina Alessia" is still active in July 2024. Official model mayhem page of Christina Alessia; member since Feb 18, 2015 has 15 images, 69 friends on Model Mayhem at  https://www.modelmayhem.com/portfolio/3622522/viewall

Ashley Benefield aka Ashley Byers aka "Christina Alessia" was charged with second-degree murder, she was convicted of manslaughter with a firearm. Manslaughter with a firearm is punishable by up to 30 years in prison, according to Florida Statutes. If convicted at trial Ashley Benefield aka Ashley Byers aka "Christina Alessia" would most likely be sent to Lowell Women's Prison, near Ocala. Florida’s cesspool: Lowell Correctional, where guards get a pass for raping women. The Justice Department excoriated Florida Corrections, having found that officers at Lowell, one of the largest women's prisons in the nation, have “raped, sodomized, beaten and choked female inmates.” 

Lowell Correctional Institution is a women's prison in unincorporated Marion County, Florida, north of Ocala, in the unincorporated area of Lowell. Like many Florida prisons, the aging Lowell facility near Ocala lacks air conditioning in its dorms as of 2023. A part of the Florida Department of Corrections, it serves as the primary prison for women in the state. As of 2020 there are 2,696 women are in the main Lowell CI, making it the largest prison for women in the United States. At Lowell Correctional Institution, where the systemic rape of female inmates by male guards has been documented over years by the Miami Herald and drawn a sharp rebuke by the Justice Department, a newly filed Federal lawsuit in Sept 2022 says the sexual abuse is as pervasive as ever.

Miami Herald Oct 8th, 2014, Bill Warner, a private investigator who has probed several cases at Lowell Prison, said the female inmates who are raped or sexually abused by male guards rarely report it out of fear that they won’t be able to see their children. About 65 percent of female inmates are mothers, and the prison also houses a population of pregnant inmates, he said. “Everyone I talked to — it’s always the same story. There are beat-downs and they are subjected to indignities like males strip-searching them,’’ Bill Warner said. Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article2564576.html#storylink=cpy

Allegations of Female Prisoner Abuse at Lowell Correctional Institution Florida Prison. Lowell Correctional “Hell Hole” in Ocala Fl. There are multiple allegations male correctional officers (CO's) at Lowell C.I. of which about 65% are male are using threats of loss of gain time to coerce the female inmates into sex acts in the bathroom areas, claims private investigator Bill Warner. I am no advocate for prison reform nor do I have any objections to Florida Judges imposing the harshest and longest prison time to fit the crime, but when those empowered to watch over and care for the incarcerated females become predators running a "good ole boy CO network" within the prison, it is time for a full blown investigation, said private investigator Bill Warner on 2014. The Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Middle District of Florida spent 2 1/2 years producing their Dec. 22, 2020 report, which alleged that “sexual abuse of women prisoners by Lowell corrections officers and staff is severe and prevalent throughout the prison.”

Miami Herald Sept 2022: Warden ignored staff rapes of female inmates.  At Lowell Correctional Institution, where the systemic rape of female inmates by male guards has been documented over years by the Miami Herald and drawn a sharp rebuke by the Justice Department, a newly filed lawsuit says the sexual abuse is as pervasive as ever. The inmate lawsuit, dated Sept. 1 and citing a litany of specific incidents, targets Stephen Rossiter, Lowell’s warden, as a defendant. It does not claim he engaged in sexual misconduct but that he exhibited “deliberate indifference to a widespread pattern of sexual and physical abuse.” 

Florida Phoenix: Two years after a Dec. 22, 2020 report revealed “notorious acts of sexual abuse, including rape, against prisoners” at the state’s largest and oldest women’s prison, federal officials made a return visit last week at Florida’s Lowell Correctional Institution to see if conditions have improved. The answer was no, according to prisoner rights advocates and attorneys who closely follow events at Lowell. “There are still instances of sexual abuse, and sure they’re aware of it. Are they turning their heads? Sure, they’re turning their heads,” says Laurette Philipsen, who served more than eight years at Lowell Correctional for grand theft and continues to stay in touch with current inmates there. She also is a volunteer member of Florida Cares, a prisoner rights advocacy group. “The (U.S.) Justice Department needs to come down hard on them, without a doubt. It’s two years since this report was published and still nothing has changed,” Philipsen told the Florida Phoenix in a phone interview.

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