Ex-cop found guilty of killing girlfriend, fetus

[AngryAmish]

Source: msnbc

CANTON, Ohio - A former police officer who tearfully told jurors he accidentally killed his pregnant lover was convicted Friday of murdering her and their unborn child.

Bobby Cutts Jr. could face the death penalty. He had claimed he accidentally killed Jessie Davis by putting an elbow to her throat, then panicked.

Jurors reached their decision on their fourth day of deliberations. Cutts sat with his hands on his lap and held his head erect without emotion as the verdicts were read.

Prosecutors told the jury that Cutts killed Davis, 26, last June at her Lake Township home to get out of child support payments for a fourth child.



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[uppityperson]

1. Cutts was convicted of aggravated murder in the death of the nearly full-term female fetus,

"Cutts was convicted of aggravated murder in the death of the nearly full-term female fetus, which carries the possible death penalty."

[niyad]

2. the crime was horrible, but what worries me is a finding of murder on the fetus.

the rabid anti-choicers are using such laws as a wedge to outlaw abortions, and this is most troublesome.

[BobbyVan]

3. Agreed -- I'm sick of people worrying about these fetuses

[gollygee]

4. So murder for killing her, but aggravated murder for killing the fetus?

why is that? Death penalty for killing the fetus, but a lesser charge for killing her.

[fascisthunter]

8. Wow... good Catch!

[ok_cpu]

5. The only thing I can figure

is that the jury must have believed that he didn't intend to kill Davis, but that the baby could have been saved had he called for help rather than covering up.

[Evergreen Emerald]

6. Is he the one who left his son alone after he killed her?

And the boy said mommy was in the rug?

[LisaL]

7. Yes, that's him.