Booker guilty on child sex charges
Published 2:25 pm Thursday, July 20, 2017
A Farmville man was found guilty in Cumberland Circuit Court on two charges of sodomy with a victim less than 13 years old and one charge of aggravated sexual battery with a victim less than 13 years old.
According to court documents, Michael Tyrone Booker will be sentenced Oct. 24 for those three charges. Booker will be on trial for his remaining five charges in the court, which include two counts of parent violating a child 15 years or younger, a second count of aggravated sexual battery with a victim 13 years or younger and two counts of indecent act with child by parent.
Booker will also be on trial Aug. 10 in Prince Edward County Circuit Court for four counts of sodomy β two of the counts being with a family member and two with a victim of 13 years or younger β and two counts of aggravated sexual battery of a victim 13 years or younger and two counts of indecent act with child by parent.
In September, Cumberland County Sheriff Darrell Hodges said the allegations went back three years.
βIt started in Cumberland and then continued in Prince Edward,β Hodges said in a previous interview.
Records show Booker was once charged in Cumberland County with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, but the charge was withdrawn before trial in August 1998.
In Prince Edward County, Booker pled guilty to possessing cocaine in December 2006.