WHITE RIVER, SD - Just days before the midterm elections, a Republican candidate for the South Dakota State Senate in next week's election has been charged with child abuse.

Joel M. Koskan was charged on Thursday for multiple sexual acts against his adopted daughter.

Koskan's challenger in the state senatorial race in District 26 is current state Rep. Shawn Bordeaux, an enrolled Rosebud Sioux Tribe.

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