‘Soft swinging’ Mormon influencer Taylor Frankie Paul reaches plea deal in domestic violence case

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charged with domestic violence in February.Taylor Frankie Paul, 28, made national headlines earlier this year and last year while documenting a raw series of mistakes and unfortunate events in her life on TikTok, including her divorce from the father of her two children following what she described as a “soft-swinging” incident, an ectopic pregnancy with her new boyfriend and her arrest in February.“I don’t owe anyone an explanation besides the people involved,” Paul said in a recent TikTok video regarding her plea. “Court is officially over til next year.

They’ll just check in and see how I’m doing — if I’m still doing better. As much as I wish that night had went differently, I felt like hitting rock bottom actually helped me in some ways.

Made me seek help that I wasn’t getting.”Paul was arrested on Feb. 17, and authorities charged her with aggravated assault, two counts of domestic violence in the presence of a child, child abuse with injury and criminal mischief, according to Herriman police in Salt Lake County.She pleaded guilty on Aug.

25 to aggravated assault, while the other four charges were dismissed with prejudice. Paul did not immediately respond to an inquiry from Fox News Digital.A complaint filed in Salt Lake County in March alleges that Paul threw a phone, a wooden play set and “heavy metal chairs” at her boyfriend, Dakota Mortensen.One of the chairs apparently hit one of her children who was sitting next to Mortensen on the couch during their argument, an affidavit states.Video of the incident apparently shows Paul kicking Mortensen, putting him in a “choke hold,” striking him “multiple times” and striking him with a “metal barstool” three times.