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LUFKIN, Texas (AP) — An East Texas teenager is accused of pushing his pregnant girlfriend's 3-year-old nephew into a pond so the boy would drown to make room for the unborn child to live at their home.
Bobby Woods, 17, faces a charge of capital murder of a person under age 6. He was booked as an adult after his arrest Friday and remained in the Angelina County jail without bond Saturday.
A criminal complaint says Woods told authorities that he wanted Mason Cuttler to die because his girlfriend was pregnant and he wanted to make room in the home for his unborn child. Mason's body was found Aug. 18 in a pond near Lufkin, a day after he was reported missing while playing outside as his parents cleaned their home, investigators have said.
Sheriff Greg Sanches said Woods was a member of one of three families living at the house.
Woods told sheriff's deputies he was aware of Mason's age and that the boy could not swim, according to the complaint. He said he pushed the child into the pond, then turned his back and made no effort to rescue the boy as he cried for help, the complaint says.
Bobby Woods, 17, faces a charge of capital murder of a person under age 6. He was booked as an adult after his arrest Friday and remained in the Angelina County jail without bond Saturday.
A criminal complaint says Woods told authorities that he wanted Mason Cuttler to die because his girlfriend was pregnant and he wanted to make room in the home for his unborn child. Mason's body was found Aug. 18 in a pond near Lufkin, a day after he was reported missing while playing outside as his parents cleaned their home, investigators have said.
Sheriff Greg Sanches said Woods was a member of one of three families living at the house.
Woods told sheriff's deputies he was aware of Mason's age and that the boy could not swim, according to the complaint. He said he pushed the child into the pond, then turned his back and made no effort to rescue the boy as he cried for help, the complaint says.
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Mason Cuttler had last been seen around 1:30 p.m. Monday playing on and around the family's front porch, according to his parents, Kevin Cuttler and Brandi Wonzer.
Kevin Cuttler said the family was cleaning house prior to Mason going missing.
“He’s allergic to some of the cleaning products, so he was playing on the front porch with my sister,” Kevin Cuttler said. “I told them that if he went anywhere to let me or his mom know. A little while later, nobody had come to get me, so I went outside to have a cigarette break, and the last time I saw him he went around the corner of the house into the back yard — and that was it.”
Wonzer said the last time she saw Mason, he was playing in the dirt with a toy tractor in the front yard.
