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<p class="has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-9cda2493cedc8ad86c032987596ac32b wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#231d1d"><strong>Ex-NFL star, Cierre Wood, 33, is sentenced to life in prison over the murder of his girlfriend&#8217;s daughter back in April 2019 </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-a21b1a05b371259289f3db54d3773e14 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#231d1d"><strong>Judge also ordered Wood to serve between 28 months and six years for child abuse, to be served consecutively </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-2d301ec8dd733f7cda777e1a48832c8f wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#231d1d"><strong>La’Rayah Patra Nicole Lamont Davis, 5, was found unresponsive at her mother&#8217;s Las Vegas apt on April 9, 2019 </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-1115736391846e33a2d65d54e57c916d wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#231d1d"><strong>She later died in hospital in hospital from a combination of brutal injuries </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-27b8b133b6e7a3f3bcf6e843c65f4b11 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#231d1d"><strong>Autopsy report indicates she had at least 100 bruises, 20 broken ribs and laceration to her liver that authorities believe killed her</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-ae3ba85ec51b89211f7a13236a9a0e30 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#231d1d"><strong>Wood pled guilty in April to second-degree murder and felony child abuse over the death </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-1f787ba83fac1846d0bbb68219e2e639 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#231d1d"><strong>La&#8217;Ryah&#8217;s mother, Amy Taylor, who was arrested alongside Wood, pled guilty earlier this year to second-degree murder and felony child abuse </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-c3c484c4460ea65b8c142727add0b59c wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#231d1d"><strong>Taylor, 31, was sentenced in July to life in prison with possibility of parole for murder, eight to 20 years for child abuse</strong></p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Cierre-Wood-1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-466602" style="width:842px;height:auto"/></figure>



<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Ex-NFL player Cierre Wood, [photo], has been sentenced to life in prison over the death of his girlfriend&#8217;s daughter back in Las Vegas in 2019. </strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Former NFL player Cierre Wood has been sentenced to life in prison over the murder of his girlfriend&#8217;s five-year-old daughter back in 2019.<br>Wood, a former running back who spent time with the Houston Texans, Baltimore Ravens, Seattle Seahawks and Buffalo Bills, reached a deal with prosecutors.<br>Wood, 33, pled guilty in April to second-degree murder and felony child abuse over the death at a Las Vegas apartment back in April 2019.<br>Wood, who also played in the Canadian Football league, was given a life term with the possibility of parole after 10 years for the murder charge. <br>La’Rayah Patra Nicole Lamont Davis was found unresponsive at her mother&#8217;s home on April 9, 2019. <br>She later died in hospital in hospital from a combination of brutal injuries.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/LaRyah-Davis-1-1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-466605" style="width:835px;height:auto"/></figure>



<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Five -year-old La’Rayah Patra Nicole Lamont Davis was found unresponsive at her mother&#8217;s home and later died in hospital. The coroner&#8217;s report determined La&#8217;Ryah had suffered a lacerated liver, broken ribs and ‘multiple skull contusions’. </strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Before her death, according to a police report at the time, Wood forced La’Rayah to ‘run sprints in the apartment, do sit-ups and wall squats’ because he thought she was overweight.<br>Police said back in 2019 that Wood told them he was ‘trying to get her on the right path due to her being chunky,’ News 3 reported.<br>The <a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/courts/ex-nfl-player-sentenced-for-death-of-girlfriends-daughter-5-3127909/">Review-Journal</a> reports that Wood admitted to police that on the day of the child died, he made her do sit-ups after she reportedly did not learn her letters and numbers. He then claimed that La’Rayah hit her head after she fell backwards, and when authorities responded to his 911 call, they found her body cold and stiff.<br>Wood’s lawyer Thomas Ericsson also claimed it was Amy Taylor who abused her daughter, and his client was not at home when the abuse took place.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Cierre-Wood-2.png" alt="" class="wp-image-466612" style="width:829px;height:auto"/></figure>



<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Cierre Wood, [circa 2012], enjoyed an illustrious college football career at Notre Dame will serve a minimum 10 years of his life sentence for murder, plus 28 months to six years for child abuse, before parole </strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The police report also claimed that Taylor once sat on her daughter’s chest and stomach as a form of punishment. <br>Court records show that the child&#8217;s mother, Amy Taylor, 31, also pled guilty earlier this year to second-degree murder and felony child abuse as part of a deal with prosecutors.<br>Taylor was sentenced in July to life in prison with the possibility of parole for the murder charge and eight to 20 years on the abuse charge, the outlet reported.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Amy-Taylor-1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-466607" style="width:842px;height:auto"/></figure>



<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>La’Rayah&#8217;s mother Amy Taylor [photo], was arrested alongside Wood. She pled guilty earlier this year to second-degree murder and felony child abuse. She was sentenced in July to life in prison with possibility of parole for murder, eight to 20 years for child abuse </strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">An autopsy conducted by the Clark County Coroner’s Office determined the five-year-old had suffered a lacerated liver, broken ribs and ‘multiple skull contusions’ at the time of her death. <br>Judge Jacqueline Bluth also ordered Wood to serve between 28 months and six years for the child abuse charge. He must serve the sentences consecutively.<br>According to a copy of the plea agreement, prosecutors dismissed the remaining felony counts of child abuse that they initially had filed against Wood. <br>He entered what is known as an Alford plea, a formal admission of guilt in criminal court that allows a defendant to still claim innocence.<br>Wood played for the University of Notre Dame before brief NFL stints with three teams and the Montreal Alouettes in Canada.</p>

Ex-NFL running back, Cierre Wood, 33, jailed for life for the murder of his girlfriend’s five-year-old daughter
