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Child rape allegations against 2

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Warrants were still outstanding Friday for the arrests of two Kingfisher County men charged Nov. 8 in unrelated cases with multiple sexual assaults on underage girls.

Ronnie Duane Smith II, 37, 1327 S. Eighth St., Kingfisher, is charged with six felony offenses alleging first-degree rape and lewd molestation of an 11-year-old girl over the period of a year.

Justin Harrel, 38, Saw Mill Inn, No. 14, Hennessey, is charged with three counts of second-degree rape of a 14-year-old girl last August.

Smith was charged after the mother of his alleged victim called the police on Halloween and said her 11-year-old daughter had disclosed incidents of inappropriate contact and sexual assault by Smith over the past year, according to a police report.

At the request of the police, the daughter was interviewed at the El Reno Child Abuse Response Team house by a forensic interviewer, where she provided more details about the alleged assaults, according to the report.

The victim also was subjected to a physical examination by a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner, the results of which are pending, according to the report.

Smith faces four felony charges which list the alternative offenses of either first-degree rape, rape by instrumentation or lewd molestation, plus two additional charges of lewd molestation.

If convicted, he could be subjected to prison sentences ranging from fi ve years on each of the six felony charges, up to life in prison without the possibility of parole on the rape charges.

Harrel was charged after the Hennessey High School principal contacted the local police department Sept. 29 to report that a 14-year-old student said she was being forced to have sex with an older man, according to an affidavit signed by HPD Lt. Michael Jones.

Jones interviewed the alleged victim, who also spoke to a forensic interviewer in Enid, and said that in addition to being forced to have sex, Harrel also allegedly made her watch pornography on his phone.

A subsequent physical exam revealed possible indications of sexual activity, according to the affi davit.

Jones interviewed Harrel, who said that he never had sexual relations with the girl and gave the offi cer verbal permission to look at his phone and admitted that he had watched pornography on it the previous night.

In reviewing the phone’s history, Jones allegedly found the porn Harrel had watched most recently, which appeared to involve teenage girls, according to the affi davit.

If convicted, Harrel could face up to 15 years in prison on each count.