A police officer has been arrested for soliciting a 12-year-old girl for sex via text at least 20 times during a 24-hour period in November.
According to reports, 22-year-old Leon Outwater from Alaska, faced two charges of soliciting child sex abuse as an authority figure.
The messages were reportedly sent to the young girl on November 17 on a phone shared by police officers in Kobuk. The victim's mother reported the text in November 20
Village records confirm he was on duty when he made the calls, but would erase them from the phone before the next officer went on duty.
He has admitted sending the text, adding, "I was drunk."
Outwater was been taken to the Kotzebue Regional Jail 128 air miles away and arraigned on Friday, the Alaska Dispatch reported.