Utah-Based FBI Employee Charged with Sexually Abusing Five Underaged Girls: Reports
An FBI employee in Utah was arrested last week and charged with molesting five young girls.
Law enforcement officials arrested 65-year-old Robert Alexander Smith after a young girl told her mom in June that Smith had allegedly forced her to touch him inappropriately under his clothes in 2020 when she was 6 or 7 years old, according to KSL-TV.
The complainant spoke with other young girls who were in close contact with Smith, each of whom began crying when asked if anything inappropriate happened with him.
Authorities with the Tooele County Sheriffs Office began an investigation into allegations from the girl, as well as four other girls, whose ages ranged from preteen to high-school aged.
In interviews conducted at a children’s advocacy center, each of the girls reported inappropriate touching. Several reported genital touching.
A second victim said Smith had allegedly forced her to touch him inappropriately under his clothes while three other girls said he had touched them inappropriately under their clothing.
“Mr. Smith occupied a position of special trust as it pertains to the victims in this case,” according to documents obtained by KSL-TV. He was a caregiver and who had authority over the girls, according to the report.
Smith was arrested Wednesday at his home in Stansbury Park and faces four 1st-degree felony counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, four class-A misdemeanor counts of lewdness involving a child, and two class-B misdemeanor counts of lewdness.
He was booked into the Tooele County Jail and will be held without bail.
“We are aware of the arrest of an FBI employee,” the agency told the news station in a statement. “The FBI takes allegations of misconduct very seriously. As such, the incident has been referred to the FBI’s Internal Affairs Section. We cannot comment further on an ongoing personnel matter.”
