( CNN ) -- Jurors spared the life of a former Canton , Ohio , police officer who killed his pregnant girlfriend and tearfully asked them for mercy . A judge then sentenced him Wednesday to 57 years to life in prison . Bobby Lee Cutts Jr. stared straight ahead as the jury announced its recommendation to spare him . Bobby Lee Cutts Jr. , 30 , will be 87 by the time he becomes eligible for parole . He stared straight ahead as the jury of six men and six women recommended that his life be spared . He and his lawyer teared up as the jurors were polled about their decision . Watch Cutts react » . Judge Charles E. Brown added to the sentence , taking other counts into consideration after hearing victim impact statements from the parents and sisters of victim Jessie Marie Davis . She was 26 and nine months pregnant when she disappeared last June . Her body , and that of her unborn child , were found 10 days later at a state park in northeastern Ohio . Whitney Davis , Jessie 's sister , directed her anger and grief at Cutts . `` You got rid of someone that was an inconvenience . I hate you . '' Watch Davis ' family lash out at Cutts » . She continued : `` '' You used and manipulated her over and over and still you sit there and you are not crying . I do n't believe that you are sorry for what you did . I believe that you are sorry that you got caught up in all your lies . I do n't know that you would know the truth . `` Watch sister tell Cutts she hates him . Cutts took off his eyeglasses as Davis ' father , Ned , addressed him : `` Do n't even look at me . '' `` Your honor he violently murdered her , '' the anguished father continued . `` Five-foot-four , nine months pregnant , that baby could have been delivered . '' And , tears rolled down Cutts ' face as Davis ' mother , Patricia Porter , spoke of her grief . `` There are mornings I have to cover her picture up , when I ca n't get out of bed . '' She continued , `` I serve an amazing God , Bobby . A God that forgives and heals and restores people . And all I know today is that I do forgive you , and I know it is only through him that I am able to do that . '' But she turned the other cheek : `` I may not have family to go home to after this , but I pray that you make a way for him to get out of there and begin a new life , and to be able to hold his son . '' Porter , who is raising Blake , told Cutts the child `` knows what you did . You would not believe the stories he has told us . '' When his time came , Cutts offered no statement , no testimonials to his character . On February 15 , the same jury found Cutts guilty of murdering Jessie Davis and their baby , who was to be named Chloe . It was Chloe 's death that made Cutts eligible for the death penalty . Jurors convicted him of two counts of aggravated murder -- for terminating a pregnancy and taking her life during the commission of a felony . All the members of the jury are white , as was Davis . Cutts is black . Cutts , who has maintained Davis ' death was the result of an accidental elbow to the neck , asked the jury to spare his life and offered a tearful apology at his sentencing hearing Tuesday . Watch Cutts ' tearful plea » . `` Ladies and gentlemen of the jury , I 'm asking you to spare my life , '' he said . `` To imagine that I was responsible for the death of Jessie , the mother of my children and my unborn daughter , is beyond any words that I can express , '' Cutts added , reading from a handwritten statement . `` Words can not bring them back , nor can they erase the pain I 've caused , but I want to apologize , '' he said . Cutts ' lawyer , Fernando Mack , had urged jurors to recommend the lowest available penalty -- 25 years to life -- to allow him to play a limited role in his other children 's lives . Mack acknowledged that many of the jurors might still be angry with Cutts for leaving his 2½-year-old son , home alone for more than a day while his mother lay dead in a field . But sentencing Cutts to death hurts Blake even more , he argued . `` That is still Blake 's father , like it or not . The prosecutor here wants you to kill Blake 's father , so now he 'll have no parents . '' Stark County Assistant Prosecutor Dennis Barr attacked Cutts ' character and his sincerity on the stand . A police officer should have known better , he said . `` Bobby Cutts took an oath to serve and protect , '' the prosecutor argued . `` But on June 14 , 2007 , Bobby Cutts did not serve and protect . He destroyed . '' According to testimony , Cutts rolled Davis ' body in a comforter and dumped it in a park , leaving toddler son Blake in the house alone at the crime scene in a soiled diaper . `` Mommy 's in the rug , '' Blake told police , according to testimony . Prosecutors charged during the trial that Cutts buckled under the financial pressure of additional child support , killed Davis , and then created a cover story to try to get away with it . After the sentencing , prosecutors -- no longer restricted in their comments by a gag order -- told reporters Cutts led authorities to Davis ' body , but no deal was made in return . Davis ' father , Ned Davis , told reporters , `` Our family , in one sense , was fortunate that we had some legal resolution because I know along with this , there are families out there that do n't ever get an answer . It does n't make it any less painful , but at least this part of it is resolved . '' E-mail to a friend .
NEW : Judge gives Bobby Cutts Jr. the maximum possible sentence . Judge recommended death , with no parole , for 30 years . Bobby Jr. convicted of killing girlfriend , unborn child . He apologized for killings and asked jurors to spare his life .