FLORIDA
Sun Sentinel

By Tonya Alanez
Sun Sentinel

He was only 7 and he knew it was wrong, yet he said nothing. And it went on for nine confusing years: sexual victimization at the hands of his trusted youth pastor.

The man, now 20, recounted his story to jurors Thursday in a Fort Lauderdale federal coutroom.

“Something told me it wasn’t right, and I still laid there anyways. I didn’t know whether to say something or get up,” said the man, whom the Sun Sentinel is not identifying. “I knew it was going too far.”

The alleged victim was the first witness to take the stand in the federal trial against Jeffery London, 51, former youth pastor at Bible Church of God in Fort Lauderdale and dean of students at Eagle Charter Academy in Lauderdale Lakes.

London, who also worked at a Boys & Girls Club in Broward…