A 45-year-old worker for the Illinois Department of Corrections is being held on suspicion of sending sexual messages to a girl who is not of legal age on social media.
Joliet police say that Robert Arndt was arrested and taken to the Will County Jail on Wednesday for grooming and soliciting a sexual act.
On July 30, the 13-year-old victim’s family told Joliet police that they had found inappropriate and sometimes sexual texts between her and a man on Facebook.
As the cops looked into it more, they found that the man was Arndt and that the messages were sent over a period of several months. Police said they also found out that Arndt worked for the Illinois Department of Corrections.
The police got a warrant to arrest Arndt on October 11, and he was arrested later that same night.
After that, he was taken to the Joliet Police Department to be processed before being sent to the Will County Jail.
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