CANTON, Ohio, Aug. 23, 2007

Ex-Cop Indicted In Ohio Mom Murder

Former Police Officer Could Face Death Penalty If Convicted In Death Of Pregnant Girlfriend

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  • Bobby Cutts Jr., right, could receive the death penalty if convicted in the June death of Jessie Davis.

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    Police found Jessie Davis' body and charged her boyfriend with murder.

(AP)  A grand jury indicted a former Canton police officer Thursday on three counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of his pregnant girlfriend and her unborn daughter.

Bobby Cutts Jr. could receive the death penalty if convicted in the June death of Jessie Davis, whose disappearance drew national attention as thousands gathered to search for her in the area surrounding her northeast Ohio home.

The murder indictments allege that Cutts killed Davis, terminated her pregnancy, and caused the death of a viable unborn child, "baby Chloe." Cutts, 30, also faces two counts of gross abuse of a corpse and one count each of aggravated burglary and endangering children.

Myisha Ferrell, a high school classmate of Cutts, was indicted on charges of obstructing justice and complicity in helping dispose of Davis' body.

The indictment against Cutts alleges he entered Davis' home, where she was killed on June 14, and that his actions put their son, 2 1/2-year-old Blake Davis, in danger.

Davis' family says Cutts was also the father of the baby girl who was due to be delivered July 3. Cutts is being held on a $5 million bond.

Davis was reported missing when her mother went to her home and found Blake in a dirty diaper, the bedroom furniture toppled and a pool of bleach on the floor.

Blake provided authorities with the first clues, saying: "Mommy was crying. Mommy broke the table. Mommy's in rug."

Authorities say Davis was killed in her home near North Canton, about 45 miles south of Cleveland. Davis' body, still carrying a nearly full-term fetus, was found nine days later about 25 miles away from her home in a remote area of a park.

Earlier this month, Summit County medical examiner Lisa Kohler said she was unable to determine how Davis was killed.

Kohler ruled that the manner of death was homicide but offered no other details, listing the cause as "unspecified homicidal violence."

Investigators had previously stated that the advanced decomposition of the body would make determining a cause difficult.


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by jetlizhan August 24, 2007 1:23 PM EDT
stressfree3 -

my feelings are MY feelings and you nor toldyouso21 or ANYBODY can change them and if you think you can, back at you idiot.
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by kailumego1 August 24, 2007 12:29 PM EDT
So, Emsaund1, I stand corrected the percentage has increased to 70%, and you weren''t overly-exaggerating or stretching the truth...

I apologize!
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by stressfree3 August 24, 2007 12:26 PM EDT
Jetlizhan,

Leave Toldyouso21 alone. He makes some good points. Example, why would you smoke dope when everyone around you who has smoked dope got hooked and lost everything. Same as with Jesse, I''m sure that there were BIG TIME signs shown to her that Bobby was crazy (thats why they kept breaking up in there relationship)but yet she still went and had another baby by him. Now I''m not saying that killing her isn''t bad, what I am saying is she would have still been alive if she had left him alone before she had his second child. Now if you can''t see that, then you''re the idiot.
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by kailumego1 August 24, 2007 12:25 PM EDT
Here are some web-sites quoting statistics

. http://www.wiretapmag.org/stories/23934/

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0254/is_n3_v55/ai_18688301

http://www.cbpp.org/6-15-01wel.htm

http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/97trends/PF2-2.htm

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by stressfree3 August 24, 2007 12:09 PM EDT
I''ve read a few comments on here and I see that alot of people are quoting statistics. I want to know, where did they find these STATISTICS? They never tell you where they found these STATISTICS, they just know about them. In the future, I wish you people quoting statistics tell use where you got them or DON''T QUOTE THEM AT ALL!
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by jetlizhan August 24, 2007 12:02 PM EDT
toldyouso21 -

well do you think your FRIEND bobby has ever heard of a vasectomy!! why don''t you loan your buddy the money to get one in case the animal ever gets out of prison?? you''re a bona fide idiot.
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by brianbwb-2009 August 24, 2007 6:40 AM EDT
And these are the blue thugs that the mainstream media posits we should "snitch" to.

STOP SNITCHIN...
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by jennmarie620 August 24, 2007 5:19 AM EDT
I will never understand why people insist on turning a tragedy like this into an argument on race and interracial relationships. What this situation warrants is discussion on the growing violence between partners in this country - especially when it concerns children, both born and unborn. I don''t know if this man killed this woman or not - hopefully the District Attorney has proof beyond a reasonable doubt that this man did kill her - and it saddens me that the majority of the country seemed to have convicted him before a grand jury even returned with a verdict to charge him.

As far as race goes: would you deny a dog the right to breed because he''s a black lab and the dog he''s chosen to breed with is a german shephard? I don''t think so. Race means nothing - skin color means nothing. We''re all human.
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by kailumego1 August 24, 2007 3:10 AM EDT
Emsaund1, from what planet did you originate, the term "race" is a social construct and not a valid term of referencing %u201Cspecies%u201D, i.e. humans, reptilian, mammals, non-human primates, fowl, fish, vertebrate and intrarvertebrate, etc.

The term "race" was fashioned to categorize and differentiate individuals based on desirability, acceptability, and morphological traits, of which a Western European distorted narcissistic phenomenon.

Economics, purely economics, the term supported Western Europeans hegemony over, according to them, undesirables, those which they deemed %u201Cinferior%u201D, Africans, Native Americans, East Indians, Chinese, and other people of color.

And as far as %u201Cracial purity%u201D there is none, according to most anthropologists the only %u201Cspecies%u201D that would actually fit into the category of %u201Cracial%u201D distinctiveness was the Neanderthals and the aborigines of Australia.

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by kailumego1 August 24, 2007 3:07 AM EDT
Europeans and Anglo-Americans used the term race quite auspiciously in support of their hegemonic philosophy to conquer, subjugate, and control economic wealth based on bogus scientific data, which they conjured up to secure, maintain, and monopolize material resources.

And whatithink I recently read an article on the Darwinian theory of evolution, which recent scientists/anthropologists have totally contradicted his analogy calling it bogus and unsupportive.

Toldyouso made an excellent point about the %u201Cmyth%u201D, from past experiences I%u2019ve ran into quite a number of white women who dated black men, and didn%u2019t mind bragging and boasting about how he treated her/them better than he treated a black woman.

As a matter of fact, I personally worked with quite a few white sisters who dangled their %u201Ctrophy%u201D black male glamorizing and boasting to black co-workers how he told them that he preferred a white woman because she knew how to treat her man, and black women are too argumentive and vociferous.
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