Raymond Oscar Harlen, 20, is currently booked into the Miller County Detention Center in Arkansas following his arrest in Johnston County, Texas. Harlen faces a long list of felony charges, including sexual grooming of a child, sexual indecency with a child, sexual extortion, grooming a minor for future sex trafficking, first-degree terroristic threatening, and the unlawful use of a communication device.
The investigation began on May 18 when a mother contacted the Miller County Sheriff’s Office. According to an arrest affidavit obtained by the Texarkana Gazette, the mother discovered an unknown man was sending explicit text messages to her 10-year-old daughter’s personal cellphone.
Investigators later learned the contact had actually started a week earlier when Harlen allegedly interacted with the girl by leaving comments on her TikTok posts before moving the conversation over to private text messages…