{"id":3291,"date":"2025-10-14T21:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/3291\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T21:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:12:06","slug":"former-church-youth-director-pleads-not-guilty-on-felony-molestation-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/3291\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Church Youth Director pleads not guilty on felony molestation charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DOWNTOWN TALLAHASSEE, FL \u2014 On Tuesday, October 14th, Terrance Booker entered a not guilty plea on several felony charges. The former Leon County Church Youth Director is accused of sexually molesting a boy at his church. He didn&#8217;t appear in court in person or by Zoom. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/news\/local-news\/lcso-church-youth-director-and-leon-county-school-employee-arrested-on-molestation-charges\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Last month<\/a>, the Leon County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said they&#8217;ve been investigating Booker since July on this case, but they&#8217;ve previously investigated Booker in 2020 following allegations of him sexually molesting three juvenile male members of the same church. LCSO says during this investigation, they were able to establish probable cause for both cases.<\/p>\n<p>Booker turned himself in to authorities last month and faces the following charges:<\/p>\n<p>One Count Lewd LASCV Behavior Victim age 12 to 16One count Lewd and Lascivious BatteryTwo Counts Sex offense-against child-fondling victim 12yoa up to 16yoa offender 18 yoa olderTwo Counts Lewd LASCV Behavior victim age 14 to 17Two counts sex assault ovr 12 yoa physical force no DMGSix Counts Sex Offense against child-fondling victim 12yoa up to 16yoa offender 18 yoa older<\/p>\n<p>Booker is due back in court in January.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Instagram\u00a0<\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DOWNTOWN TALLAHASSEE, FL \u2014 On Tuesday, October 14th, Terrance Booker entered a not guilty plea on several felony&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[242,2475,232,234,233,3920,562],"class_list":["post-3291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-abc-27","tag-downtown-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-terrance-booker","tag-wtxl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}