Correctional Officer Charged with Child Molesting

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A Vigo County correctional officer faces charges of child molestation.

Police arrested 51-year-old Kenneth Smithee of Terre Haute, Tuesday morning on three counts of child molesting.

He is accused of abusing a girl under the age of 14.

Sheriff John Plasse says Smithee has been suspended without pay.

Indiana State Police are looking into what happened.