Jacqueline Bryce Herron is a former school counselor and therapist intern residing in Northern California.

In April 2018 she was sentenced to 11 years and 8 months in prison for sexually assaulting two 16-year-old boys.

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In 2015, Jacqueline Herron was a therapist intern at Victor Youth Services in Redding, California.

She was fired the same year by Victor Youth Services after sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy.

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Jacqueline Herron was then was hired by Alternatives to Violence, providing counseling to students at Salisbury High School, a continuation school in Red Bluff, California where she sexually assaulted another 16-year-old boy.

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On Tuesday, April 18, 2018 Jacqueline Herron was sentenced to 11 years and eight months in for sexually assaulting two 16-year-old male students.

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One of the victims told police that Herron sodomized him while he was black-out drunk.

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On Wednesday, December 6, 2017 Jacqueline Herron pled no contest to 28 felony counts of sex crimes.

Herron had faced a maximum term of 29 years and 8 months in prison.

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The 28 counts in which she pleaded no-contest include engaging in sexual intercourse, oral copulation, sexual penetration with a foreign object, sodomy and sodomy by anesthesia or controlled substance.

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The Shasta County District Attorney's Office had asked Flynn to sentence her to 14 years and 4 months in prison, while Jacqueline Herron's defense lawyer had asked that his client be allowed to remain free on probation while she underwent treatment.

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"I don't think it can be overstated how vulnerable these victims were," Deputy District Attorney Cody Jones told Flynn during sentencing.

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"This is a person who bragged about what she had done," Jones said.

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The incidents, which she pled no contest to, occurred while she worked at Victor Youth Services and Alternatives to Violence.

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Herron was taken into custody after sentencing.

After her family were led from the courtroom, Herron looked around the courtroom in dismay.

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"I don't understand what's happening right now," she said.

"This is a shock."

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During the sentencing, a woman read a statement from one of the victims, who called her a "monster" for preying on him when he was vulnerable.

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"Pain has become my world," the woman said, reading from the victim's statement.

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Herron had sex with one 16-year-old boy in 2015 while working as a therapist intern at Victor Youth Services.

Herron was fired by Victor but she was hired by Alternatives to Violence.

According to police reports, Herron had sex with another 16-year old numerous times in March and April 2016.

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Herron's lawyer, Mark Melnick, told Flynn his client should get probation because she pleaded no-contest to the charges and volunteered to undergo treatment, which she had been doing for months.

He said psychiatric evaluations showed Herron was unlikely to commit further crimes against children.

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But Jones argued that her crimes were committed against vulnerable youth who held her in a position of trust.

"These were individuals who were troubled, who were desperately in need of help," Jones said.

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