A Blount County sheriff’s jailer has been arrested and fired amid allegations he had sex with a female inmate.

Garrett Law, 26, was booked into the Blount County Jail at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. He is charged with custodial sexual misconduct, the second jailer accused of sexual involvement with an inmate there in less than a year.

Sheriff Mark Moon said Law had been a corrections officer for about two months.

Sheriff’s officials were notified about 1 p.m. Wednesday that he had possibly had inappropriate contact with a female inmate.

Moon requested the Oneonta Police Department to begin a criminal investigation. Sheriff’s officials also launched a parallel internal probe.

Investigators spoke to three female inmates – two witnesses and the alleged victim – and then interviewed Law.

“He admitted to some of the things that the ladies said – all three ladies’ stories were the same,’’ the sheriff said. “He admitted to some of it but tried to deny most of it.”

Following his interview with Oneonta police, Law was placed under arrest.  Moon also fired him Wednesday night.

The sheriff said the allegations against Law include oral sex. He said Law violated the sheriff’s office policy by going into the female lockdown after lights out.

“He would have been fired even if he hadn’t touched her,’’ Moon said.

In March, former corrections officer Daniel Kelsoe, 29, was charged with two counts of custodial sexual misconduct at the Blount County Jail involving several potential victims.

In Alabama, an inmate cannot legally consent to sex with a jailer.

“You don’t know how frustrating it is,’’ Moon said. “We strictly tell them if you touch these inmates sexually in any way, you’re going to be charged.”