On the day he was arrested last year, former Cincinnati Bengal Nathaniel
“Nate” Webster lied to police but then admitted he had sex with a minor,
an act he believed would ruin him.
“I’m going away for a long time,” Webster, now 33, said in a July 21,
2011, taped interview with Hamilton County Sheriff’s Detective Bryan
Pitchford.
Webster was 31 in the fall of 2009 when authorities allege he had sex with
a 15-year-old girl in their Symmes Township neighborhood.
Assistant Hamilton County Prosecutors Seth Tieger and Katie Burroughs
spent the week presenting witnesses and evidence to show that. They saved
Webster’s own words for last.
For about the first half of the interview with Pitchford, Webster insisted
he didn’t have sex with the girl, now 18. But when the detective played
conversations the girl secretly recorded between her and Webster, he
admitted he lied.
“I have nothing to lie about no more,” Webster told Pitchford. “What I
need you to know about this girl is that she (is) loose and she lies very
well.”
Webster, who often attacked his accuser’s morals when talking to
Pitchford, has seven children by four women.
Webster said he couldn’t recall the first time he had sex with the girl
because “we had sex, uh, a lot of times.”
At the end of that interview, Webster began to understand the potential
consequences of sex with the teen.
“You know I’m just seeing everything wash down the drain,” Webster told
Pitchford. “I’m just seeing everything being flushed.”
Webster also admitted he lied to himself.
“Detective, I knew every time, man, every time,” Webster said. “That’s why
I was trying to be so secretive. I knew. I knew. Every time I had sex with
her, I said, ‘Man, this is going to come bite me …’ ”
Despite his statement to police, Webster now insists he had sex with the
girl when she was 16, the legal age of consent in Ohio.
In a switch, Mary Jill Donovan, one of Webster’s attorneys who subpoenaed
current professional football players Ray Lewis and Willis McGahee, said
Friday they now won’t testify in Webster’s defense.
Prosecutors rested late Friday, and Webster’s defense team called three
witnesses.
The case resumes Monday.
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