Broken Arrow man arrested for allegedly raping girl for nearly five years

BY KENDRICK MARSHALL World Staff Writer
Saturday, January 19, 2013
1/19/13 at 5:52 PM


A Broken Arrow man who had been accused of raping a girl for nearly five years was arrested.

Eric Lewis Larhman, 38, was charged Friday with eight counts of sexual abuse of a child under 12, Tulsa County District Court filings revealed.

Larhman allegedly began abusing the girl when she was just 4 years old in July 2007, according to the filings.

Court documents describe Larhman as a family acquaintance of the girl.

Larhman was booked into the Tulsa Jail at 6:25 p.m., an arrest report indicates.

The arresting officer wrote in the report that Larhman allegedly said, “I knew this day would come. I tried to stop” as he was being taken into custody.

He is being held in the Tulsa Jail in lieu of $40,000 bail.

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