SYRACUSE – A Syracuse man was arrested Friday afternoon on a charge of child molesting after he allegedly touched a 13-year-old girl inappropriately in August. According to a probable cause affidavit filed by the Kosciusko County Prosecutor’s Office, an Indiana State Police officer spoke with the victim’s father, who advised his daughter had been molested by Dannie R. Woods, 56, Syracuse. The victim spoke with an interviewer and stated that on one occasion in August, Woods picked her up from school and on the way home had touched her inappropriately and that he had done so several other times before. Woods allegedly told the girl to keep quiet about what he had done. The officer spoke with Woods, who stated the girl asked him to touch her so he did. Woods was booked in the Kosciusko County Jail Friday afternoon and held on a $5,000 bond. No court date has been set.
