Ex-NFL player gets prison time in death of 5-year-old girl in Las Vegas

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Ex-NFL player gets prison time in death of 5-year-old girl in Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS (AP) A former profe sional football player was sentenced Tuesday to prison in the April 2019 death of at his Las Vegas apartment.The sentencing came after Josh Richardson Jersey Cierre Wood, a former NFL and Canadian Football league running back, reached a deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty in April to second-degree murder and felony child abuse, court records show.Wood, 33, was sentenced to life in prison with the po sibility of parole after 10 years for the murder Tony Bradley Jersey charge. Clark County District Court Judge Jacqueline Bluth also ordered him to serve between 28 months and six years for the child abuse charge. He must serve the sentences consecutively.According to a copy of the plea agreement, prosecutors dismi sed the remaining felony counts of child abuse Allen Iverson Jersey that they initially had filed against Wood. He entered what is known as an Alford plea, a formal admi sion of guilt in criminal court that allows a defendant to still claim innocence.ADVERTISEMENT The A sociated Pre s sent an email to his lawyer seeking comment Tuesday.Wood played for the University of Notre Dame Justin Anderson Jersey before brief NFL stints with three teams and the Montreal Alouettes in Canada.Court records show that the child's mother Charles Barkley Jersey , Amy Taylor, 31, also pleaded guilty earlier this year to second-degree murder and felony child abuse as part of a deal with prosecutors.The coroner's office in Las Vegas said the child, LaRayah Davis, died on April 9, 2019, of blunt force injuries.
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