Former Tallahassee youth minister on trial, accused of molesting teen boy

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) – A Tallahassee man accused of assaulting five boys over the past 15 years is standing trial this week in one of those cases.

Terrance Booker, 41, served as a youth minister at his church and worked at an after-school program at a local elementary school until his arrest in August 2025.

Booker is now on trial on charges of lewd and lascivious conduct and sexual battery on a child under 16. The alleged abuse took place between 2010 and 2015.

“He planned to take this to his grave,” prosecutor Sarah Dugan said of the victim in her opening statements to the jury Thursday morning…

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