Former NFL Player Cierre Wood Gets Life Sentence for 5-Year-Old Death Sentence

Former NFL player Cierre Wood sentenced to life in prison for the 2019 death of his girlfriend’s five-year-old daughter.

Wood, 33, pleaded guilty to murder and child abuse. He will be eligible for parole on the murder charge after 10 years, but must also serve between 28 months and six years on the child abuse charge. The judge Jacqueline Bluth he was ordered on Tuesday, August 13, to serve the sentences consecutively.

Mother of the child, Amy Taylorhe also pleaded guilty to murder and child abuse.

On April 9, 2019, La’Rayah Davis was found unresponsive at Taylor’s Las Vegas home. He later died in hospital from his injuries. An autopsy by the Clark County coroner’s office later revealed that Davis had a lacerated liver, 20 broken ribs, multiple skull fractures and lacerations to his heart, diaphragm and connective tissue.

Taylor, 31, told police she punished Davis by sitting on top of her. Wood said he punished her because she believed she was overweight. Punishment consisted of sprinting around the flat and doing sit-ups and wall sits. While doing sit-ups, Davis fell backwards and hit his head on the ground.

NBC News 3 in Las Vegas reported that Wood told police he was “trying to get him on the right track because he’s a noble.”

La’Rayah split time with her mother in Nevada and her father, Daunan Davisin California.

“She had so many people that touched her, and she’s only 5 years old,” Daunan told NBC at the time of La’Rayah’s death. “His lack of life and how much life he had, that’s the sad thing about it.”

According to the plea agreement obtained by The guardprosecutors dismissed other child abuse charges against Wood. You entered an Alford plea, also known as a plea of ​​good faith, which is a type of plea where a defendant formally pleads guilty in a criminal court but still wants to maintain his innocence. This allows both parties to skip a criminal trial and requires the defendant to accept the consequences of a criminal conviction.

Wood was a running back at Notre Dame from 2009 to 2012, and later signed with the NFL’s Houston Texans as an undrafted free agent. He spent time with five NFL teams and three teams in the Canadian Football League before the Montreal Alouettes released him in 2018.