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Jayme Closs’ accused kidnapper had to be transferred out of his Wisconsin jail Monday night — because one of the teen’s distraught relatives works there.

“I will not deal with him. I can’t,’’ Lindsay Smith, Jayme’s cousin, told CBS.

Smith said she “talked to the sheriff, my jail captain’’ about the situation.

She added that she had not seen suspect Jake Thomas Patterson — who allegedly killed Jayme’s parents and then held the 13-year-old girl hostage for nearly three months — before he was moved from the Barron County jail where she works to the facility in neighboring Polk County.

Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald confirmed the prisoner’s transfer to The Post.

“That’s an administrative decision. A relative of the Closs family does work in the jail,’’ Fitzgerald said.

As for Patterson, “He’s still in a cell by himself,’’ Fitzgerald said.

“There were no threats or anything. He was moved last night.”

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