A prominent Ohio businessman and restaurateur has admitted to strangling a woman he was dating after being accused of telling her, "You think God is going to help you?" as she prayed she wouldn't die.

Robert "Bobby" George, 44, of Lakewood, allegedly forced a towel down the 25-year-old victim's throat and bit her on the nose, along with spitting in her face, during the vicious June 2024 assault, according to Cuyahoga County prosecutors. He accepted a plea deal Monday that will allow him to avoid prison time for attempted strangulation, a fifth-degree felony that carried a maximum punishment of a year behind bars, according to local NBC affiliate WKYC . He was given five years of community control, or probation.

"If there had not been a joint recommendation of probation that the victim ag

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