(WJET/WFXP)-- A former corrections officer at Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution Forest is facing sexual assault charges after investigators said he handcuffed and sexually assaulted two new officers in two separate incidents.

Attorney General Dave Sunday on Monday said those incidents took place at SCI Forest back in May, where 29-year-old Garrett Smead of Warren could handcuff the officers, take off his clothes and sexually assault them before leaving them.

Sunday said both officers who were assaulted were recently hired at the prison and were left handcuffed until another officer came along to free them, even allegedly writing “Property of G. Smead” on one of them.

"The allegations in this case are unacceptable for anyone, let alone a corrections officer with a sworn duty to

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