Adrian Peterson indicted in child injury case in Texas By Ryan Wilson | CBSSports.com September 12, 2014 5:00 pm ET
Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson has been indicted in Texas for "reckless or negligent injury to a child," according to the Fox affiliate in Houston. The indictment was made in Montgomery County.
Child Protective Services confirms to TMZ that they are working on a case involving Peterson and an 11-year-old boy.
More details via Minneapolis' WCCO:
Sports Radio 610 in Houston obtained a draft of the police report which says Peterson admitted that he did, in his words, “whoop” one of his children last May while the boy was visiting him in Houston. When the 4-year-old boy returned to Minnesota, his mother took him to a doctor. The police report said the boy told the doctor Peterson had hit him with a branch from a tree. The doctor told investigators that the boy had a number of lacerations on his thighs, along with bruise-like marks on his lower back and buttocks and cuts on his hand. The police report says the doctor described some of the marks as open wounds and termed it “child abuse.” Another examiner agreed, calling the cuts “extensive.” According to Sports Radio 610: "Peterson's son had pushed another one of Peterson's children off of a motorbike video game. As punishment, Peterson grabbed a tree branch -- which he consistently referred to as a 'switch' -- removed the leaves and struck the child repeatedly."
More via Sports Radio 610: Peterson allegedly told the child's mother via text message that he “felt bad after the fact when I notice the switch was wrapping around hitting I (sic) thigh.” Peterson also acknowledged the injury to the child's scrotum, saying in the text message, “Got him in nuts once I noticed. But I felt so bad, I'm all tearing that butt up when needed! I start putting them in timeout. N save the whooping for needed memories!
"“Never do I go overboard!" Peterson continued. "But all my kids will know, hey daddy has the biggie heart but don't play no games when it comes to acting right.”
Meanwhile, police reports tell a different story. Again, details courtesy of Sports Radio 610:
According to police reports, the child, however, had a slightly different story, telling authorities that “Daddy Peterson hit me on my face.” The child also expressed worry that Peterson would punch him in the face if the child reported the incident to authorities. He also said that he had been hit by a belt and that “there are a lot of belts in Daddy's closet.” He added that Peterson put leaves in his mouth when he was being hit with the switch while his pants were down. The child told his mother that Peterson “likes belts and switches” and “has a whooping room.” The team released the following statement: "The Vikings are in the process of gathering information regarding the legal situation involving Adrian Peterson. At this time, we will defer further questions to Adrian's attorney Rusty Hardin."
A short time later, Hardin also released a statement: “Adrian Peterson has been informed that he was indicted by a grand jury in Montgomery County, Texas for Injury to a Child. The charged conduct involves using a switch to spank his son. 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. 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. He has cooperated fully with authorities and voluntarily testified before the grand jury for several hours. Adrian will address the charges with the same respect and responsiveness he has brought to this inquiry from its beginning. It is important to remember that Adrian never intended to harm his son and deeply regrets the unintentional injury.”
Peterson is expected to turn himself in, according to Fox Sports. Peterson missed practice on Thursday, an absence that Vikings coach Mike Zimmer described as a normal day off for the 29-year-old, "Veteran's day," Zimmer said.
There didn't seem to be any indication that charges were pending on Friday. Peterson was back at practice and he was "laughing and joking," according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
By Friday evening, the Vikings had announced that they had deactivated Peterson for Sunday's game against the Patriots.
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Not only did my old man use a "switch", but we had to select it... it had to meet his requirements... otherwise, he would select it. It did not kill me... and taught me how to not get caught. For the many thousands of years of human development, corporal punishment was not only used, but expected...
Somehow, mankind managed to survive. SMH.
Did AP get carried away? Maybe... It's certainly important to be in control of your anger if you are punishing a child, but I fear he's about to get railroaded, regardless the facts, especially after the events concerning a certain Raven. Some lessons are best learned the hard way. I'll bet the boy doesn't push his brother off the game again...
BTW... while I do not have a problem with corporal punishment, I think I used it only a couple of times on my son... and once on my daughter. My son, like me, learned how to not get caught. I did not use a switch.
My daughter cried the time I spanked her... so I decided I would never do it again... as most dads, I was owned by the girl. Fortunately, she never gave me cause to consider doing it again.
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It all just sounds weird. I believe the 4 year old was influenced to say that he feared Adrian would punch him in the face if he reported it. I'm not a parent, so I don't know punishments. But I've had soap in the mouth and been whipped by a hand.
And very ironic that this came out after the woman abuse, drugs etc all came out recently. lol. NFL should have gotten used to this, by now.
I got the belt on my bare ass 2 or 3 times. I got it for lying. Nothing else resulted in the belt.
There was no whippin' room though. He just woke me up a little after midnight, told me he knew I had lied, and told me to pull down my pants. Those seconds hurt more than the belt. He actually didn't hit me very hard. It certainly never wrapped around my legs and caught my nuts (read original post if you don't get the reference).
I barehanded my son 2 or 3 times for the same offense. We're beyond it now.
Never spanked my daughter. I call her pinky. One reason is she's got me wrapped around it a bit.
I think AP probably went too far. The Rice case probably won't help him.
Not smh but concerned about justice for both AP and the kid.
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I, too, had the belt, the soap, etc. However, that is moot to the entire situation . We in 2014 cannot examine this situation through a 20, 30, or 40 year old lens (or older obviously) . This is exactly like people posting those "we should all be dead from our childhood" memes that people love to post on FB. Well, too many children DID die because of not wearing seatbelts, helmets, etc. We just didn't have the instantaneous news cycle to hear of them. (same with school shootings)
I would hope that, as a society, we can move past the mistakes of our parents, just as I hope my own son can do better as a parent than I have.
DaveD1420 wrote:I, too, had the belt, the soap, etc. However, that is moot to the entire situation . We in 2014 cannot examine this situation through a 20, 30, or 40 year old lens (or older obviously) . This is exactly like people posting those "we should all be dead from our childhood" memes that people love to post on FB. Well, too many children DID die because of not wearing seatbelts, helmets, etc. We just didn't have the instantaneous news cycle to hear of them. (same with school shootings)
I would hope that, as a society, we can move past the mistakes of our parents, just as I hope my own son can do better as a parent than I have.
Pretty much agree on all points.
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DaveD1420 wrote:I, too, had the belt, the soap, etc. However, that is moot to the entire situation . We in 2014 cannot examine this situation through a 20, 30, or 40 year old lens (or older obviously) . This is exactly like people posting those "we should all be dead from our childhood" memes that people love to post on FB. Well, too many children DID die because of not wearing seatbelts, helmets, etc. We just didn't have the instantaneous news cycle to hear of them. (same with school shootings)
I would hope that, as a society, we can move past the mistakes of our parents, just as I hope my own son can do better as a parent than I have.
"The MISTAKES of our parents"?????? Are you ignoring the FACT that this was the NORM for virtually all of human history??? Virtually every higher mammal species uses corporal punishment to correct the bad behavior of their progeny. The "lens" that I view through tells me that there is an increase in narcissism, an increase in apathy, an increase in refusal to accept accountability, to blame others, an increase in expecting something because you tried... an increase in not "scoring" youth athletics in order to spare hurt feelings... There need to be MORE, not LESS spankings handed out.
Pathetic.
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Know what else had been the NORM for all of recorded human history? Slavery. Sexism. Racism. Classism. Etc. Acceptance by previous generations doesn't make things acceptable.
Saying that kids these days are narcissistic and apathetic is the same thing our parents said about us, our grandparents parents said about our parents, etc. The nerve of these kids saying that they don't want to go work in the factory for 16 hours a day when they turn 8 years old. How apathetic and narcissistic they are!
It's "Those damn kids and their long hair!" all over again. And again. And again...
DaveD1420 wrote:Know what else had been the NORM for all of recorded human history? Slavery. Sexism. Racism. Classism. Etc. Acceptance by previous generations doesn't make things acceptable.
Saying that kids these days are narcissistic and apathetic is the same thing our parents said about us, our grandparents parents said about our parents, etc. The nerve of these kids saying that they don't want to go work in the factory for 16 hours a day when they turn 8 years old. How apathetic and narcissistic they are!
It's "Those damn kids and their long hair!" all over again. And again. And again...
Not quite... There was a time when I thought that... There's a change... it's not good. There was a time when parents backed up the teacher... now, the teacher is assumed to be persecuting the child. It's not the kids who are the problem... You don't seem to get that. Parents are failing them by not providing the limits that kids ABSOLUTELY need. Sometimes, severe behavior requires a severe response. OTOH, there is a difference between corporal punishment, and abuse.
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Show me where I said that a parent should never physically discipline a child. You can't. I am not saying that a parent should never spank or discipline a child. I know I did to mine. I'm saying that actions like taking the belt and whipping a child, as my parents did to me, is never a proper response. If you've failed at being a parent so much that the child did something egregious enough to warrant cruel punishment, then perhaps it's time to get a 3rd party to intervene. Exchanging your parental duties for cuts and bruises is not a fair trade for anyone.
You are speaking out of both sides of your mouth. The people who are parents of school-age children now are still of the generation who received cruel punishment. I know I am. Shouldn't they expect the child to be wrong, and defend the teacher? It would be the next generation, the kids of the "apathetic and narcissistic" who are "never wrong." But that's not the case, because parents have been calling their kids apathetic and narcissistic for generations.
Interesting side note, not totally unrelated: my son is 14, and his friend's grandmother broke my son's friend's hand by forcing him to learn to write right-handed, despite him being a lefty. This sort of crap has gone on forever, and it's horrible to know that this is still OK by some people. (not pointing a finger at anybody here.)
BTW, I respect people on these forums, and I'm glad that we can have these sorts of rational discussions. I've been posting on various boards since around 1996 or 7, and this has not always been the case for me.
DaveD1420 wrote:Know what else had been the NORM for all of recorded human history? Slavery. Sexism. Racism. Classism. Etc. Acceptance by previous generations doesn't make things acceptable.
Saying that kids these days are narcissistic and apathetic is the same thing our parents said about us, our grandparents parents said about our parents, etc. The nerve of these kids saying that they don't want to go work in the factory for 16 hours a day when they turn 8 years old. How apathetic and narcissistic they are!
It's "Those damn kids and their long hair!" all over again. And again. And again...
Did you see the pictures? I got the belt, soap, wooden spoons, spankings, I even got punched once. That doesn't make it right. I can parent without the abuse. It's not hard, but if a parent resorts to it, than so be it. I don't blame or judge them unless it's too much, and getting what looked like 10 lashes that all drew blood, is WAY too much. That is abuse. I've hit dudes with a switch (actually drunk like two months ago) and it took a full wind up to draw blood, no joke.
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DaveD1420 wrote:Know what else had been the NORM for all of recorded human history? Slavery. Sexism. Racism. Classism. Etc. Acceptance by previous generations doesn't make things acceptable.
Saying that kids these days are narcissistic and apathetic is the same thing our parents said about us, our grandparents parents said about our parents, etc. The nerve of these kids saying that they don't want to go work in the factory for 16 hours a day when they turn 8 years old. How apathetic and narcissistic they are!
It's "Those damn kids and their long hair!" all over again. And again. And again...
Did you see the pictures? I got the belt, soap, wooden spoons, spankings, I even got punched once. That doesn't make it right. I can parent without the abuse. It's not hard, but if a parent resorts to it, than so be it. I don't blame or judge them unless it's too much, and getting what looked like 10 lashes that all drew blood, is WAY too much. That is abuse. I've hit dudes with a switch (actually drunk like two months ago) and it took a full wind up to draw blood, no joke.
1) I doubt if you as strong as AP. 2) It sounds like you hit adults. Big difference.
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DaveD1420 wrote:Know what else had been the NORM for all of recorded human history? Slavery. Sexism. Racism. Classism. Etc. Acceptance by previous generations doesn't make things acceptable.
Saying that kids these days are narcissistic and apathetic is the same thing our parents said about us, our grandparents parents said about our parents, etc. The nerve of these kids saying that they don't want to go work in the factory for 16 hours a day when they turn 8 years old. How apathetic and narcissistic they are!
It's "Those damn kids and their long hair!" all over again. And again. And again...
Did you see the pictures? I got the belt, soap, wooden spoons, spankings, I even got punched once. That doesn't make it right. I can parent without the abuse. It's not hard, but if a parent resorts to it, than so be it. I don't blame or judge them unless it's too much, and getting what looked like 10 lashes that all drew blood, is WAY too much. That is abuse. I've hit dudes with a switch (actually drunk like two months ago) and it took a full wind up to draw blood, no joke.
1) I doubt if you as strong as AP. 2) It sounds like you hit adults. Big difference.
Not sure I get what your point is. You should try reading slower. It improves comprehension.
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"Spanking children slows cognitive development and increases risk of criminal behavior, expert says"
"Research shows that spanking corrects misbehavior. But it also shows that spanking does not work better than other modes of correction, such as time out, explaining, and depriving a child of privileges. Moreover, the research clearly shows that the gains from spanking come at a big cost. These include weakening the tie between children and parents and increasing the probability that the child will hit other children and their parents, and as adults, hit a dating or marital partner. Spanking also slows down mental development and lowers the probability of a child doing well in school," Straus says.
"More than 100 studies have detailed these side effects of spanking, with more than 90 percent agreement among them. There is probably no other aspect of parenting and child behavior where the results are so consistent," he says.
If you don't believe the experts at UNH, how about experts from Columbia, who published the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the 2nd most impactful pediatric journal:
"Spanking Negatively Influences Children’s Cognitive Development, Columbia Researchers Find "
Spanking remains a typical rearing experience for American children. These results demonstrate negative effects of spanking on child behavioral and cognitive development in a longitudinal sample from birth through 9 years of age.
Yeah he went too far. I've gotten the belt, open hand and even a closed fist but, they never drew blood. That is way wrong. I could see if your child tried to burn down the house. We are talking about a 4 year old. I don't believe AP was trying to abuse his son but he did.
