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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 31, 2022

Roane County lawyer Kent Lowery Booher, who was disbarred in 2015 based on a conviction of statutory rape, has been sentenced in federal court to life plus 120 months for the sexual exploitation of children, the Claiborne Progress reports. According to trial evidence, Booher used electronic messaging platforms to talk with someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl. The other party turned out to be an undercover officer. Over a five-day period, Booher engaged in sexually explicit conversations with the officer, arranging to meet the supposed minor in person. He was arrested at the destination by the Harriman Police Department. Booher previously was convicted of sexual exploitation of a 15-year-old girl in 2012 and 2013.