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‘MURDEROUS LOVE’ FOR MY SON

A man accused of hiring his cousin to kill his girlfriend in front of their toddler son said he did it for love of the boy, according to a videotaped confession played in court yesterday.

Carlos Cruz, 36, of Southbridge, Mass., said he set up the fatal April 2008 shooting of Chelsea Frazier, 18, in The Bronx because she was limiting his contact with the boy.

“I was just doing it for love, for my kid,” Cruz confessed.

Prosecutors say Cruz hired Devon Miller to kill Frazier, and then shoot Cruz as they sat in a parked car to make it look like a robbery. Their son, who was also inside the car, was not hurt.

Cruz’s trial begins today in Bronx Supreme Court. Miller will be tried separately.