Campbell charged with alleged first-degree rape of minor | News

Michael Aaron Campbell, 21, of Sallisaw who was charged on Aug. 2 with two felony counts of first-degree rape, of a female under age 14, is now scheduled for the Sept. 6 felony disposition docket.

According to the arrest affidavit issued by Muldrow Police Officer Mark Harkins, on July 28 he was called to the police station to meet with a man who said a family member had been talking to Campbell on Facebook, believing that he was speaking with the reporting party’s 13-year-old daughter. 

According to the affidavit, during their conversation Campbell spoke about a detailed incident that allegedly occurred in June where he and the minor reportedly had intercourse at Gardenwalk Apartments in Muldrow.

When Harkins went to Campbell’s residence to try and interview him, he had reportedly left prior to the officer’s arrival so Harkins returned to the police department to take an initial report and conduct additional interviews.

After the interviews and reports were completed, Harkins was then dispatched to the Muldrow City Park where he was told the reporting party was detaining Campbell until police could arrive.

When the officer asked Campbell if he knew why he wanted to talk to him, he said he did, and then Harkins told him it was because of a pending investigation and transported him to the police station.

There, Campbell told authorities that he was in an apartment with the minor as reported in June. He claimed he was lying on the couch with her, touched her leg, and they’d had intercourse before the minor asked him to stop, and he did. He said he then went to another couch and they both fell asleep and he left the following morning.

He told Harkins he hadn’t spoken to the minor since the incident but believed he was speaking with her on Facebook, instead of the minor’s family member, on the day the messages were reported to authorities. 

He also said he didn’t know the minor’s age and never asked her prior to the alleged incident happening.

According to the affidavit, in the messages from the minor to Campbell, she told him she was only 13-years-old but Campbell told her that he wanted to continue to see her and tried to make plans for them to meet up again that evening.

Campbell reportedly confessed to sending all the messages and was then taken into custody.

During a forensics interview, the minor said Campbell had also inappropriately touched her prior to the alleged incident happening.