Overview
- A multi-county grand jury indicted Joseph Lyle Campbell, 68, on one count of first-degree rape and one count of lewd or indecent acts with a child under 16.
- The indictment alleges he raped an 11- or 12-year-old in his home garage and sexually abused a 14-year-old at Eastland Assembly of God in Tulsa in 1984.
- U.S. Marshals arrested Campbell in Elkland, Missouri, and he is being held in Greene County as he awaits transfer to Oklahoma.
- The Attorney General’s Office is applying a tolling statute to overcome prior statute-of-limitations barriers, a strategy recently used in another Oklahoma clergy case.
- An NBC News investigation detailing multiple accusers and earlier institutional failures preceded the probe, and several women are now urging additional potential victims to come forward.