The trial for a 35-year-old woman accused of sexually abusing her son began in Monongalia County Circuit Court on Wednesday.
Sarah Webber is charged with domestic assault, first-degree sexual abuse, first-degree sexual assault and sexual assault by a parent.
Three of the Morgantown Police officers who responded to the Webber house on Dec. 23 testified and jurors watched bodycam footage from all three. Each officer spoke to different members of the family that night.
Officer Z. Breakiron was the first officer to arrive. He testified Webber’s then 6-year-old son seemed “frantic” when he came around the house — wearing nothing but pants despite the cold weather — asking if Breakiron was a “policeman.”
“I don’t want to go in the house again,” the boy said to Breakiron.
The boy told Breakiron his mom was doing inappropriate stuff to him and torturing him. When asked what she was doing, the boy said she was doing “gay stuff” to him.
When Webber came out of the house to talk to Breakiron, the boy said “I have to hide. I have to hide.”
Breakiron took the boy to another officer’s car then went back to stay with Webber and make sure the house — now a crime scene — wasn’t contaminated, he said.
The jury also saw bodycam footage from Officer C. Webster, sat in the car with the 6 year old who asked Webster to talk to his mom about the “weird stuff” and “touching.” Her son also told Webster her mouth was near his privates.
Webster said the boy motioned to his groin at one point in the conversation but that was not captured by his bodycam.
The boy also told Webster his sister busted into the bathroom after he yelled for her to call the police and he ran out of the bathroom to hide under a table.
Officer T. Bradford spoke with Webber’s 15-year-old daughter who said her mom came home drunk and made her son get in the shower because he drew all over himself in marker.
Webber’s daughter said she saw her mom touching her brother, her face was right next to his “you know what” and Webber said “stick it in.”
The two children were picked up by their cousin, Olivia Hawkinberry, who drove from Fairmont after Webber’s daughter called and texted her.
Webber’s daughter texted Hawkinberry as she was driving up and said Webber was banging on her door and she couldn’t talk on the phone because she was trying to hide.
“If she finds me it’s game over,” one text message said. “Oh my God I think I’m going to die,” said another.
Hawkinberry said she was shocked when the daughter told her what Webber did but believed her.
“I never thought that she would sexually abuse her children but there is no doubt in my mind that she would physically abuse her children,” Hawkinberry said.
