The still-traumatized ex-mistress of former Michigan football head coach Sherrone Moore has ripped the sweetheart sentence that let him dodge jail over a terrifying stalking ordeal that left her fearing for her life.
Paige Shriver, 32, expressed disgust at Moore, 40, getting just 18 months of probation — despite him initially facing up to five years in jail for barging into his assistant-turned-lover’s home soon after she ended their affair late last year.
“December 10th was the most terrifying day of my life,” Shriver said in a statement after her former lover’s sentencing hearing on Tuesday.
“The criminal acts he committed were extremely frightening and violent. He broke into my apartment, crying, yelling, enraged, and came at me with knives. I was threatened, and I feared for my life.”
“Today’s sentence does not reflect the harm done to me or the objective evidence in this case,” she added.
The ex-Wolverines coach — who was paid $5.5 million per year — was accused of storming into Shriver’s home on Dec. 10 after he was fired over his two-year tryst with his then-assistant.
Blaming Shriver for his ouster, the coach threatened to kill himself with butter knives and kitchen scissors inside her apartment.
Initially, Moore was slapped with felony charges of home invasion and stalking.
He took a deal last month that allowed him to skip trial and plead no contest to two misdemeanor charges, including malicious use of a telecommunications device in context of a domestic relationship and one count of trespass.
During sentencing, Washtenaw County Judge J. Cedric Simpson said jail time wasn’t warranted but warned Moore that “all bets are off” if he violated his probation.
Despite ordering probation, the judge said he didn’t want the sentence to diminish what Shiver went through.
“I would let Ms Shiver know that this court is not by any means lessening the impact of those events,” the judge said.
“Frankly, Mr Moore, you had no right to do what you did,” he added. “I know that she was placed in fear. It was a traumatic experience that day for you. It was certainly a traumatic experience for her. But you had no right to spread your pain to her.”
The judge added that his decision was greatly influenced by the ex-coach’s wife, Kelli.
“I don’t know where your wife, Kelli, finds her strength,” Simpson said as the coach’s spouse looked on from the courtroom gallery.
“You, sir, took her for granted.”
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