Ex-NFLer sentenced to prison for brutal attack on former girlfriend
Zac Stacy, a former running back in the National Football League, has been sentenced to prison following a violent attack on his ex-girlfriend that was recorded in 2021.
An Orange County judge has sentenced Stacy to six months in prison and one year of probation, according to WESH, a Florida-based NBC affiliate.
Stacy reportedly pled guilty to two counts of criminal mischief, resulting in the dismissal of battery charges. From 2013 to 2015, he played for the Rams and Jets in a three-year NFL career before moving on to play for the Memphis Express in the XFL.
In November 2021, Stacy was arrested by Orlando police after he was captured on camera severely beating Kristin Evans, the mother of his child, inside her home.
According to an affidavit, Stacy "struck [her] on the right side of her head and picked her up and threw her against the television, causing it to crack and fall over."
"While she was still on the floor pleading for him to stop, he picked her up and body-slammed her onto a baby walker, causing the object to break," the affidavit continued. "He continued yelling at her and striking her while she got up from the floor, and picked her up again and threw her into the baby's bouncy chair."
Stacy initially claimed that his ex-girlfriend had "staged" the video out of "bitterness" because he did not want a long-term relationship with her. "It's unfortunate because I just got out of rehab for anxiety and depression-like eight months ago," he told the police. "I dropped everything to come down here and support the mother of my child in her last trimester, and the baby. I let her know I wasn't trying to be with her or nothing like that. This is a case of just bitterness. That's why she did this. The whole assault thing. She staged it. She set me up."
