Woman to Lebanon police: I thought this naked boy was 18

A woman caught having sex in a car behind Lebanon High School insisted to police that she had no idea her partner was only 15 years old.

Natalie Westefeld, 25, Fort Leonard Wood, is charged with three counts of statutory rape and three counts of statutory sodomy. She was arraigned today in Laclede County Circuit Court.


Lebanon police found her and the boy naked in the back seat of Westefeld’s car in a parking lot behind Lebanon High School about 2:20 a.m. last Saturday. At the time, Westefeld told police that her lover was 20 years old.

The probable cause statement against Westefeld says she and the boy said they met at an online dating site called Badoo. The boy told police that he lied when he registered on the site and said he was 20 years old. After the two of them started messaging each other, the boy said, he told Westefeld that he was 15, going on 16, and she “agreed to talk to him via text but only as a friend.”

Both of them, according to the probable cause statement, said they’d met and had sexual relations three times – approximately June 15, June 30, and then July 5. Each time was shortly after midnight, when the teen sneaked out of his home and Westefeld picked him up near his home. After their trysts behind the high school, she dropped him off near his home and drove back to her home, she told police.