Ohio Police Officer Charged with Two Murders - Girlfriend and Unborn Child

(Hat tip: Jean at Catholic Fire)

From LifeSiteNews.com:

CANTON, Ohio, June 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Canton policeman, 30-year old Bobby Cutts Jr., was charged today with the murder of his girlfriend, Jessie Davis. He was also separately charged with a second murder—that of Jessie’s unborn child. Davis was nearly nine months pregnant with a baby girl, due on July 3.

Davis’ mother alerted the police after she found her daughter’s 2-year old son alone in a devastated apartment last weekend, the Associated Press (AP) reports. Policemen and thousands of friends participated in a week-long search for the young woman until her remains and those of her unborn child were finally discovered in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park on Saturday afternoon.

Unlike Canada, where an unborn child is not considered to be a person, the United States Unborn Victims of Violence Act (UVVA), also known as “Laci and Conner’s Law” (2004), declares that all children “in utero” are considered a second—and distinct—victim of violence in the case of the mother being injured.

The UVVA declares that any person who causes “the death of, or bodily injury to a child who is in utero at the time the conduct takes place, is guilty of a separate offense,” and will receive the punishment “prescribed by the President for that conduct, had that injury or death occurred to the unborn child’s mother.”

While Cutts has not been charged with a federal crime, he has been charged under a similar Ohiio fetal homicide law. Douglas Johnson, Legislative Director for the National Right to Life Committee informed LifeSiteNews.com that such laws are in effect in 35 of the 50 states. For more information see: http://www.nrlc.org/Unborn_victims/Statehomicidelaws092302.html...

In this double murder case, the laws seems to have educated the media, with several major North American news agencies referring to Davis’ unborn child using typically pro-life terminology. Fox news and the New York Times, for example, used the words “unborn child.” CNN also described the baby as an “unborn child, a girl she (Davis) planned to call Chloe.” ABC referred to Cutts as being charged with “murder in the deaths of Davis and her unborn child”.

Near the place where the body was found, the AP reports, someone posted a sign commemorating the mother as well as her unborn child. The sign read, “God bless you Jessie and Chloe, forever in our hearts.”

See full text of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act http://www.nrlc.org/Unborn_Victims/UVVAEnrolled.pdf

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My Comments:
Since the bodies of Jessie Davis and her unborn child, Chloe, were discovered in a national park, the federal Laci and Conner's Law could be applicable here.

Now, I really don't want to make this tragedy political, but it really should be pointed out that most if not all of the current crop of Democrat candidates for President voted against the legislation that made it a separate murder whenever a child in utero dies as the result of the mother being murdered.

So beholden is the Democrat Party to the abortion industry - so unwilling are they to acknowledge even a full-term unborn child (and even one "wanted" by the mother) as a separate "person" - that they voted almost in lockstep against Laci and Conner's Law.

Had it been up to the Democrats, Bobby Cutts, Jr. would be prosecuted for only 1 murder. Maybe the next time all the Democrats come together for one of their sham "faith forums", someone should ask them about that.