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.

McCune's expected ruling on this matter will be the first of many hearings to determine how the case against Lambing will proceed.

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.”

“He was emotional through all of the interview,” Fish said in court.

At times, Lambing is barely coherent in the video.

Appearing in court on Wednesday, Lambing said nothing.

But in the taped interview, he told the police many details leading up to Bentley's death: He describes how he and Bentley's mother, Mackenzie Paige Peters, were planning to buy a house, and how each time Bentley visited his biological father the boy would return “acting real weird, pale. I felt like something was up.”

On the morning of March 21, 2017, Lambing watched cartoons with Bentley and they played games, Lambing told Fish and Detective Thomas Vensel during the recorded interview.

The little boy told Lambing that he needed to use the bathroom. That's when, Lambing told investigators, he first became alarmed.

“He was just bleeding out,” Lambing said. “I didn't think it was life or death but I knew it was severe. I can't believe this is happening.”

During a preliminary hearing on April 26, 2018, Dr. Todd Luckasevic of the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's Office testified that an autopsy determined Bentley died from blood loss after suffering a sexual assault that left him with external and internal injuries.

According to court documents, Bentley was pronounced dead at 10:15 a.m. March 21, 2017, at Butler Memorial Hospital, where he was taken after losing consciousness in the car of Lambing's mother, Kristen Herold. She had picked him up from the Super 8 Motel that morning where Lambing and Peters were staying.

“I love him dearly,” Lambing tells Fish in the recorded interview. “I might be in jail for life for something that happened to him before he came to me.”

Lambing tells Fish in the recorded interview that something must have happened to Bentley earlier that week, when the boy wasn't under his supervision.

But Fish begins to demand answers from Lambing, telling him, “We have a dead 4-year-old. He had a lot of life ahead of him.”

Fish described the boy's internal injuries which included a tear in the abdomen.

“The problem with that is death is imminent,” he said. “We're talking minutes here, not hours.”

“I didn't do it,” Lambing responds.

“You didn't sodomize that boy?”

“I did not rape him. I did not rape him, dude.”

“The ambulance call was at 9:26 (a.m.). This would've occurred in the hour.”

“I did nothing to him,” said Lambing, who then agreed to a DNA test. “I'm not a pedophile. I respect everybody.”