Hennepin County (MN) seeks protection of Adrian Peterson's child

[Brickbat]

http://www.startribune.com/local/275810231.html

Hennepin County filed a court petition Friday seeking protection for Adrian Peterson’s 4-year-old son after his alleged abuse by the Vikings running back.

The petition asked a judge to approve a safety plan for the child, including that Peterson not have any unsupervised or unauthorized contact with the child, and that he cannot use any “corporal punishment and/or physical discipline.”

The county also asked for any proceedings in the child protection matter be postponed until Peterson’s criminal charges are resolved.

According to the petition, Peterson admitted during interviews with child protection and law enforcement authorities in Texas that he twice hit his 4-year-old son, once with a belt and once with a tree branch.

[Louisiana1976]

1. Peterson should have his child taken away.

[philosslayer]

2. He doesn't live with the child

He has multiple children by multiple women. To my knowledge he lives with none of them.

[TBF]

3. I hope they can do something -

No idea how it works when someone has multiple residences (and in different state) - but so glad someone is trying to help that poor kid.

[hifiguy]

4. If the boy lives in Texas

it's a TX matter.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. He doesn't; he lives with his mother, here.

Peterson "whooped" him when he was visiting Texas.

[hifiguy]

6. That is an equine of a different hue,

and the county should proceed apace.

He has so many kids by so many different women in so many different places it's hard to keep track. Which is another, albeit distasteful and utterly classless, issue altogether.