A children's pastor who was once a televangelist for PTL Network - the American evangelical Christian television network originally founded by Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker - has been arrested on child sex abuse charges. Former Pentecostal preacher Joseph Lyle Campbell, 68, has been charged with one count of first-degree rape and one count of lewd or indecent acts to a child under 16 for crimes that allegedly occurred in 1984 while Campbell was the youth pastor at the Eastland Assembly of God Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. "Between May 1 and Oct. 1 of that year, he allegedly raped a girl age 11 or 12 in the garage of his home," reads a statement on his arrest. "In addition, he is accused of sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl at the church, which allegedly occurred between March 1 and Dec. 1." Campbell was detained by U.S. Marshals on Wednesday December 17, in Elkland, Missouri. He will soon be transferred to Oklahoma to stand trial. If convicted, he could end up in prison for the remainder of his natural life. It appears one of those victims is Kerri Jackson, now 53. She told local NBC affiliate KY3 he molested her for years, beginning when she was around 9. "I don't even know how to react right now," Jackson told KY3 moments after learning of Campbell's arrest. "After all these decades, it's a miracle. Finally. We just needed someone to believe us." Previous attempts to bring Campbell to justice in Oklahoma and Missouri failed after the statute of limitations expired. However, the Oklahoma Attorney General's Office was able to make the arrest using a frontier-era mandate that pauses the statute of limitations for suspects who flee or reside out of state. Prosecutors recently used the same legal theory to charge former megachurch pastor Robert Morris with sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl in Oklahoma in the 1980s, according to KY3. Morris, who founded the nondenominational Gateway Church in Texas, pleaded guilty in October to five felony counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child and received a 10-year sentence with all but six months of it suspended. "There can be no tolerance for child sex predators, particularly adults who exploit their positions of authority and the faith of their victims," said Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond in a statement. "My office will vigorously work to ensure justice is served for the women who have carried this trauma for decades." Oklahoma authorities started looking into Campbell in May, after KY3 ran an investigative package tracing the years of allegations made against the preacher. The victims have said Campbell was a magnetic pastor who earned the trust of their parents, only to exploit their children behind closed doors. In 1988, when she was 15, Jackson said she went to church leaders to accuse Campbell of abuse, and said the men asked her to describe the abuse in graphic detail. They later allegedly invited Campbell and his wife into the room to challenge her story. Sometime in 1990, he founded a nondenominational church and launched Camp Bell, a Christian youth camp in the Missouri Ozarks, where he ministered to thousands of kids over the decades. In 2016, he joined the PTL Television Network, which broadcast Campbell's teachings nationally until earlier this year, when the network quietly removed all of his past sermons from its website, KY3 reported. If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673). If you suspect child abuse, please call the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-Child or 1-800-422-4453, or visit ChildHelp.org. All calls are toll-free and confidential, and the hotline is available 24/7 in more than 170 languages.