{"id":1389,"date":"2012-12-05T13:27:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T18:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2012-12-05T13:29:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T18:29:31","slug":"nfl-will-provide-benefits-for-jovan-belchers-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2012\/12\/05\/nfl-will-provide-benefits-for-jovan-belchers-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL will provide benefits for Jovan Belcher&#8217;s daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1390\" title=\"kcchiefs\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/kcchiefs1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/kcchiefs1.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/kcchiefs1-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/kcchiefs1-50x34.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nJovan Belcher shot and killed his girlfriend Kassandra Perkins on Saturday before going to the Kansas City Chiefs stadium and killing himself &#8211; but he left something very important behind.<\/p>\n<p>His three month old daughter, with no parents.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is being reported that at least she will be taken care of according to NFL&#8217;s Ian Rappaport. He said in a video posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/videos\/auto\/0ap2000000105854\/NFL-to-provide-benefits-for-Jovan-Belcher-s-daughter\" target=\"_blank\">NFL.com<\/a> that the guardian of the little girl will be paid over 1 million dollars throughout her childhood.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED:<\/strong> <a title=\"Jamaal Charles releases Jovan Belcher statement, Perkins statement\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2012\/12\/03\/jaamal-charles-releases-javon-belcher-statement-perkins-statement\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Jamaal Charles releases statement, Perkins statement.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He said that according to the leagues collective bargaining agreement that the payments would equal $108,000 a year for the first four years, $48,000 the next year and then $52,000 each year until she turns 18 \u2013 or 23 if she goes to college.<\/p>\n<p>Belcher, a fourth-year linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jovan Belcher shot and killed his girlfriend Kassandra Perkins on Saturday before going to the Kansas City Chiefs stadium and killing himself &#8211; but he left something very important behind. His three month old daughter, with no parents. However, it is being reported that at least she will be taken care of according to NFL&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[154,170],"coauthors":[28],"class_list":{"0":"post-1389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-jovan-belcher","9":"tag-ksanas-city-chiefs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}