An Altoona police officer remains on administrative leave as authorities investigate his relationship with a 16-year-old girl.
The Pennsylvania Attorney General is leading the investigation. State police are also working the case, waiting for lab results and conducting additional interviews.
Rick Johnson was arrested Tuesday on charges of endangering the welfare of children and corruption of minors.
Police allege Johnson had sex with a 16-year-old girl from Indiana who he met on the Internet. The girl had visited Johnson a couple of times with her parents before visiting him alone last week.
Police said Johnson and the girl had sex three times when she visited him alone. Investigators said the girl's friends showed inappropriate text messages to the girl's parents, who in turn called police.
Johnson was not charged with statutory rape because the girl is 16 years old and the sex was consensual, police said.
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