22-year-old Iyanna Mayweather, the daughter of boxer, Floyd Mayweather, has been sentenced to six-year probation for stabbing a woman in 2020.
Multiple reports have it that she pleaded guilty to the stabbing, which took place inside the home of her child’s father, NBA YoungBoy on April 4, 2020.
Mayweather, who was 19 at the time, pleaded guilty to an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge. In the recent ruling, she received Deferred Adjudication of Guilt and was sentenced to six years of probation.
The victim, a 35-year-old black female, suffered multiple lacerations on her arm and needed surgery.
Iyanna had initially avoided prison time after pleading guilty to the stabbing. Iyanna Mayweather pleaded guilty to “unlawfully, intentionally and unknowingly” causing “bodily injury” to Lapattra Jacobs by cutting her with a knife. Jacobs and Mayweather both have children with popular rapper NBA Youngboy.
It could be recalled that Mayweather was arrested nearly three years ago following an altercation with Jacobs at the rapper’s home.
Iyanna is reportedly said to have stabbed Jacobs twice with two knives in the kitchen. Jacobs was hospitalised and Mayweather was later taken into custody. The second-degree felony charge that Mayweather pleaded guilty to carries up to 20 years in prison, but she entered a plea deal with prosecutors who agreed on six years of deferred adjunction.
Earlier this year, Mayweather’s attorney, Kent Schaffer, had said: “We resolved the case between Iyanna and the State. The agreement calls for Iyanna being on deferred adjudication for a period of six years after which she will have no felony conviction and the case will be dismissed.
“She is eligible to have the deferred adjudication end after two years pending her good behaviour. Although we believe that Iyanna was defending herself after being attacked, we thought this was the safest resolution for her. This is especially true since her boyfriend and his bodyguards refused to testify; probably due to their own legal problems.”
Reportedly, as part of her plea deal, Mayweather was forbidden from contacting Jacobs, who received a protective order against the boxer’s daughter in December 2020.
It should be noted that Iyanna is Mayweather’s second-oldest child and the only one of his biological children to have a different mother from the other three. Her mother is American businesswoman and television star Melissa Brim, who met Mayweather when she worked at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
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