Police interviewed Keith Jordan Lambing in 2017 about the moments leading up to the death of a 4-year-old after the boy began bleeding out from internal injuries. The interview was recorded and on Wednesday it was played in court during a hearing with Lambing.

“We want to talk about the demise of Bentley,” Butler Township Police Detective David Fish is heard saying in the recording to a distraught Lambing, who was brought into the township police department on March 21, 2017, for questioning.

Bentley Thomas Miller died earlier that day from what officials would later determine to be injuries from a sexual assault.

“I would just like to shed some light on this situation,” Lambing said on the video. “Those charges, I didn't do that. I loved that kid.”

The video and audio recording was played in front of county Judge Timothy McCune, presiding over a hearing between the prosecution, who want Lambing executed for the alleged crime, and Lambing's defense team headed by Charles Nedz, a public defender.

Nedz wants this recording and a second to be removed from the case, arguing that Lambing's request for a lawyer was ignored and his Miranda rights were violated.

Lambing appears in an orange jumpsuit in the video because police took his clothes for evidence. He at first tells Fish that he does not want to have his interview recorded without a lawyer but said he is willing to speak to them if they turn off the recording devices. But after some back and forth with Fish, Lambing said, “just record it.”

This is an article excerpt — pick up Thursday's Butler Eagle or subscribe to butlereagle.com to find out some of what was said in the video.