LAS VEGAS — A former skilled soccer participant was sentenced Tuesday to jail within the April 2019 dying of his girlfriend’s 5-year-old daughter at his Las Vegas residence.
The sentencing got here after Cierre Wooden, a former NFL and Canadian Soccer League operating again, reached a cope with 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 of parole after 10 years for the homicide cost.
Clark County District Court docket 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 duplicate of the plea settlement, prosecutors dismissed the remaining felony counts of kid abuse that they initially had filed in opposition to Wooden.
He entered what is called an Alford plea, a proper act of contrition in felony court docket that enables a defendant to nonetheless declare innocence.
The Related Press despatched an electronic mail to his lawyer looking for remark Tuesday.
Wooden performed for the College of Notre Dame earlier than transient NFL stints with three groups and the Montreal Alouettes in Canada.
Court docket information present that the kid’s mom, Amy Taylor, 31, additionally pleaded responsible earlier this yr to second-degree homicide and felony baby abuse as a part of a cope with prosecutors.
The coroner’s workplace in Las Vegas stated the kid, La’Rayah Davis, died on April 9, 2019, of blunt pressure accidents.
