Prosecutors told the jury that Cutts (pictured right) killed Davis (European American) and the nearly full-term unborn baby at her Lake Township home in northeast Ohio to avoid making child support payments for the child.
Cutts, 30, would be eligible for parole after 57 years under the jurors’ recommendation for an aggravated murder charge in the death of the fetus. Stark County Common Pleas Judge Charles Brown Jr. was hearing statements from each side and planned to issue his sentence afterward.
Cutts had sobbed on the witness stand when he claimed the death of Davis from an elbow to the throat last June was an accident during an argument. He said he dumped her body in a park in a panic. He returned to the witness stand after his conviction to ask jurors to spare his life.
“I don’t believe you’re sorry for what you did,” she added. “You’re sorry you got caught up in your lies. … It disgusts me that you sit there and you don’t care. If you cared, you would have told the truth. You would not have left my sister’s body and my niece’s body sit there in that field and rot.”
Cutts nodded his head slightly, clenched his teeth and also maintained eye contact during the emotional and angry statement from Whitney Davis.
“You got rid of someone who was an inconvenience for you,” the mourning sister said. “It disgusts me that you’re here and she’s gone.”
Cutts and his family declined the opportunity to make a statement to the judge.