CANTON (AP) — A former police officer intentionally killed his pregnant lover to get out of child support payments, a prosecutor told jurors during his closing argument Tuesday.
   Bobby Cutts Jr. testified a day earlier that he accidentally killed Jessie Davis with an elbow to her neck as he was trying to leave her house.
   Assistant prosecutor Dennis Barr told the jury that Cutts’ story makes no sense. Barr said Cutts wanted Davis and her fetus dead because of mounting debt and child support for a fourth child.
   “He knew when he was suffocating Jessie, when he was strangling Jessie, he was killing that baby inside her,” Barr said.
   Cutts has pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated murder in the deaths of Davis and her fetus, gross abuse of a corpse, aggravated burglary and child endangering. He could receive the death penalty if convicted of the aggravated murder charges, which include intent to kill.
   Defense attorneys asked the judge to instruct the jury on lesser charges of involuntary manslaughter or voluntary manslaughter, but the judge rejected their request, saying it wasn’t warranted by the evidence.
   Cutts’ attorney were to give their closing argument later in the morning.
 

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