Sex Scandal Prompts Move of Child Killer
Convicted child killer Susan Smith has been transferred from the South Carolina Women’s Correctional Institute amid a widening investigation into a sex scandal at the prison, officials said Tuesday.
Four state Department of Corrections employees stand accused of engaging in sexual relations with inmates at the prison, including two male guards charged with having sex with Smith at the facility.
“I’m very concerned that we’ve had four arrests in this very short period of time in one prison facility. That raises a red flag,” Richland County Solicitor Barney Giese said. “It would not surprise me if more charges are filed.”
A state investigation began earlier this month after Smith, serving a life sentence for drowning her two children in a Union County lake in 1994, was treated in August for a sexually transmitted disease.
Smith admitted having sex at least four times with a guard, Lt. Houston Cagle, and investigators later learned she allegedly also had sexual relations once in July or August with a guard supervisor, Capt. Alfred Rowe.
Rowe was arraigned Tuesday on state charges of having sex with an inmate. Cagle was charged earlier this month and has been fired.
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