Former NFL player Cierre Wood given life sentence in murder of five-year-old | NFL

A former NFL working again was sentenced on Tuesday to jail within the April 2019 loss of life of his girlfriend’s five-year-old daughter at his Las Vegas condo.

The sentencing got here after Cierre Wooden, who additionally performed within the Canadian Soccer league, reached a cope with prosecutors and pleaded responsible in April to second-degree homicide and felony little one abuse, courtroom information present.

Wooden, 33, was sentenced to life in jail with the potential for parole after 10 years for the homicide cost. Choose Jacqueline Bluth additionally ordered him to serve between 28 months and 6 years for the kid abuse cost. He should serve the sentences consecutively.

Based on a duplicate of the plea settlement, prosecutors dismissed the remaining felony counts of kid abuse that they initially had filed towards Wooden. He entered what is named an Alford plea, a proper request for forgiveness in legal courtroom that enables a defendant to nonetheless declare innocence.

Courtroom information present that the kid’s mom, Amy Taylor, 31, additionally pleaded responsible earlier this 12 months to second-degree homicide and felony little one abuse as a part of a cope with prosecutors.

The coroner’s workplace in Las Vegas stated the kid, La’Rayah Davis, died on 9 April 2019, of blunt power accidents. Based on the post-mortem, she had 20 newly damaged ribs, inner bleeding, a lacerated liver and bruises to her coronary heart, diaphragm, and connective tissue on the time of her loss of life.

Taylor stated she had sat on her daughter whereas disciplining her. Wooden stated he had used train to self-discipline La’Rayah and she or he had fallen and hit her head whereas doing sit-ups. He informed police that he was “attempting to get her on the suitable path because of her being chunky.”

La’Rayah spilt time dwelling together with her mom in Las Vegas and her father, Daunan Davis, in California.

“She had so many individuals that she touched, and she or he’s solely 5. Her to not be alive and the way a lot life she had, that’s the tragic factor about it,” Danaun Davis informed NBC 3 Information after his daughter’s loss of life.

Wooden performed for the College of Notre Dame earlier than transient NFL stints with groups together with the Houston Texans and Buffalo Payments. He additionally performed for the Montreal Alouettes in Canada.