Adrian Peterson Released Following Indictment for Using a Branch to Spank Son

[geardaddy]

More abuse from NFL players. They need more than just suspensions.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/09/13/adrian_peterson_released_following_indictment_for_using_branch_to_spank.html

Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson was released on a $15,000 bond early Saturday morning less than half an hour after he turned himself in to authorities in Montgomery, Texas. Peterson had been briefly detained after he was indicted by a grand jury that accuses him of reckless or negligent injury of a child due to his alleged use of what he called a “switch”—a tree branch stripped of its leaves and twigs—to spank his four-year-old son, reports ESPN. A doctor reported the child’s injuries to police, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Peterson, who is the face of the Vikings, has been cooperating with authorities and did not mean any harm, according to a statement issued by his lawyer, who says the star player just did what his parents did to him.

“This indictment follows Adrian's full cooperation with authorities who have been looking into this matter. Adrian is a loving father who used his judgment as a parent to discipline his son,” Hardin said in his statement. “He used the same kind of discipline with his child that he experienced as a child growing up in east Texas. Adrian has never hidden from what happened.”

Hitting a child with a stick seems cruel enough, but the indictment makes it clear there was much more to it than that. CBS Houston reports: (at link)

[elehhhhna]

1. are u saying he's being abused by the NFL?!!

[geardaddy]

2. No, I meant more abuse from NFL players.

I'll change it.

[elehhhhna]

8. whew good

[tblue]

3. A switch is more like a whip than a stick.

I got the switch when I was a kid. That sucker hurts, cuts, leaves welts. It was the Southern black way of spanking back in the day. It wasn't illegal then as it is now, as is most corporal punishment. I can believe Peterson got the switch when he was a kid, but he has to know you can't do that anymore or you are breaking the law. Plus it sounds like he did more than switch his little boy. Poor little guy!!!!! I never used it on my kid. Never even thought about doing that and wouldn't whether or not it was legal.

[CentralMass]

4. Your title seems to imply that the Vikings released him.

[geardaddy]

5. Not my title.

It's the title from Slate.

[Warren Stupidity]

6. "spank" - he whipped the kid bloody.

The beating allegedly resulted in numerous injuries to the child, including cuts and bruises to the child’s back, buttocks, ankles, legs and scrotum, along with defensive wounds to the child’s hands.

This was straight out brutality against a 4 year old child. Characterizing it as a "spanking" is bullshit and part of the problem.

[geardaddy]

7. You are correct, sir.

It was brutal child abuse.