A former NFL operating again was sentenced on Tuesday to jail within the April 2019 dying of his girlfriend’s five-year-old daughter at his Las Vegas condominium.
The sentencing got here after Cierre Wooden, who additionally performed within the Canadian Soccer league, reached a take care of prosecutors and pleaded responsible in April to second-degree homicide and felony baby abuse, court docket information present.
Wooden, 33, was sentenced to life in jail with the potential for parole after 10 years for the homicide cost. Decide Jacqueline Bluth additionally ordered him to serve between 28 months and 6 years for the kid abuse cost. He should serve the sentences consecutively.
In accordance with a replica of the plea settlement, prosecutors dismissed the remaining felony counts of kid abuse that they initially had filed towards Wooden. He entered what is called an Alford plea, a proper request for forgiveness in prison court docket that permits 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 baby abuse as a part of a take care of prosecutors.
The coroner’s workplace in Las Vegas mentioned the kid, La’Rayah Davis, died on 9 April 2019, of blunt pressure accidents. In accordance with 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 dying.
Taylor mentioned she had sat on her daughter whereas disciplining her. Wooden mentioned he had used train to self-discipline La’Rayah and he or she had fallen and hit her head whereas doing sit-ups. He advised police that he was “attempting to get her on the suitable path as a consequence of her being chunky.”
La’Rayah spilt time residing along with her mom in Las Vegas and her father, Daunan Davis, in California.
“She had so many individuals that she touched, and he or she’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 advised NBC 3 Information after his daughter’s dying.
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.
