One of Hip-Hop’s favourite boxers, Floyd “Money” Mayweather, has been jailed on domestic battery charges. The undefeated champion was given a 90-day prison term after pleading guilty to reduced battery domestic violence and harassment charges.
Las Vegas judge Melissa Saragosa also ordered the 34-year-old to complete 100 hours of community service and pay a $2,500 fine, which is small change to Mayweather’s “Money Team. By pleading guilty, Mayweather avoids a trial on felony allegations that he hit his ex-girlfriend Josie Harris and threatened two of their children during an argument at her home in September 2010.
He was accused of assaulting her after she told him she was seeing another man, and he allegedly reacted by striking her, threatening his children and taking their mobile phones. Judge Saragosa said the police report stated he had said he would make Harris “disappear”. Judge Saragosa also said that two of their children, ages nine and 10, also witnessed the attack.
While Mayweather’s defence lawyer claimed the public would be better served by community service, the prosecutor was having none of it, stating: “He just continually gets himself into trouble and he is able to get himself out of it as well,” she said. “Essentially it is because he is who he is and is able to get away with everything.
Mayweather is due in court again next week on a separate battery charge.
