By Alyana Gomez
Action News Jax
BAKER COUNTY, Fla. — The wife of 30-year-old John Wesley Padgett is standing by her husband.
“My husband is not a monster,” she said.
Police arrested the state corrections officer on Wednesday after he admitted that a game of horseplay led to sex with his teenage relative. Detectives said he even confessed to it. They say the confession came from a recorded conversation they organized with Padgett and the victim’s mother.
He allegedly said, “Yeah, I mean, it was like 2 o’clock in the morning, and my wife was in bed asleep and I mean, it just happened so fast -- I don’t know. I really wasn’t thinking.”
Padgett’s wife is defending him.
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