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Nate Webster, former Cincinnati Bengal, Miami Hurricane sentenced to 12 years

Staff and wire reports

June 6, 2012

Former Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Nate Webster was sentenced in Ohio to 12 years in prison for having sex with the underage teen daughter of a former assistant coach for the team.

Webster, 34, was sentenced in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court in Cincinnati. A jury convicted him in April on four counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, and he could have been sentenced to up to 20 years.

Jurors in April found Webster not guilty of three other charges: gross sexual imposition, sexual battery and a fifth count of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor.

Prosecutors said Webster had sex with the girl in 2009 when she was 15 and threatened to harm her if she told anyone. Webster admitted having sex with the teen the next year, when she was 16 — the legal age of consent in Ohio.

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