A jury in Massachusetts continues deliberating the fate of Matthew Farwell in his trial over the death of Sandra Birchmore, who federal prosecutors say was killed by the former police officer after years of sexual abuse that started when she was a teenager.

Farwell has pleaded not guilty to killing the 23-year-old and her unborn son in 2021. Prosecutors accused Farwell of staging Birchmore's death to look like a suicide.

Prosecutors said Farwell started sexually abusing Birchmore when she was 15 and he was 27. The two met through a police youth program that's designed to teach children about law enforcement careers. Farwell, who worked for the police department in Stoughton, Massachusetts, was an instructor for the program.

File photo of Matthew Farwell Stoughton Police Department via AP

Birchmore's manner of death was initially determined by local authorities to be a suicide, but was later changed to undetermined.…