Darin Ehrenrich with Tulsa Police Department's Special Victims Unit says over the last five years, sex crimes have increased by more than 40%. In recent months, crimes involving individuals in positions of power have also become more frequent.
The latest involving Glenn Garbrah, a detention officer at the Tulsa County Jail, charged with first degree rape of a 15 year old girl. Garbrah allegedly bought nude images of her on Snapchat.
"She reports that when they met up, he drove her to a secluded area and forced her to perform sexual acts on him, and eventually raped her during that encounter," Ehrenrich said.
This comes after former megachurch pastor Robert Morris pled guilty to child sex abuse charges the same day. And just a couple months ago, Tulsa Area Emergency Management Director J