So NFL Running Backs seem to have graduated from beating women to beating children.
Yeah, a ‘spanking’:
The beating from Peterson 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.”
That’s not a spanking, it’s a whipping.
“Dat’s raaaaaaayyyyyycisssss!! Ev’buddy know “running back” ‘a dog wissle!!!
So he spanked his kid. Big friggin’ deal. The kid probably deserved it.
can I spank you to cause that kind of damage????
That’s not a “spanking”, that’s an assault.
Never could figure out why so many people who know they’d go to jail for the same action against an adult are in favour of it when the recipient is, I don’t know, 3’10” and 45 lbs, and completely dependent on you – on your actions, on your judgement.
The clowns on Channel 9 Minneapolis are saying that this may be child abuse in Minnesota, but it will not be in Texas.
Projection?
And they are camped out at Adrian Peterson’s house tonight.
A spanking does not leave OPEN WOUNDS.
MULTIPLE OPEN WOUNDS that a doctor saw a week later.
Not bruises, not scratches, bleeding wounds. That is child abuse. Adrian Peterson has a problem, and I hope for the sake of his children that he can cure it.
From what I saw at Penn State, once a young man shows skill at football, he can do no wrong. Assault? Rape? Attempted
murder? He will be covered by wealthy fans. His only possible sin is to play a bad game.
At some point this comes in confrontation with the real world.
A spanking no felony assault. Pictures do not lie and are not racist. http://www.wwtdd.com/2014/09/adrian-peterson-indicted-arrest-warrant-out/
4 year old worried about telling on daddy.
poor kid.
Daddy was worth 18 million,
and just lost a 12 million dollar per year salary..
John Lewis is right. The relevant fact isn’t that Peterson is black, he’s a celebrity. And it’s been obvious for decades that celebrities get treated very differently in the legal system than any of the rest of us.
In contemporary journalism, everything is “about race” except things that may actually be about race (and class and family background). Mr Peterson, I suspect, probably received more than one “whuppin'” when he was growing up, and he credits strong discipline for helping him to succeed.
What is fascinating, however, is that Peterson didn’t grow up in a family of poor, unlettered sharecroppers who hadn’t received the memoranda about not running dog-fights, not getting into fisticuffs with your girl-friend, and not administering vicious discipline to your children. Both of Peterson’s parents attended universities on athletic scholarships, his father at Idaho State and his mother at the University of Houston, while Peterson himself attended the University of Oklahoma.
While we are expressing revulsion at Peterson’s actions, we should also spare a thought about what the contemporare4y university really offers their much sought after “student athletes”.
Beefaholic: I suggest you read the articles in the links again, look at the pictures taken one week after the assault, think about the fact the kid was four years old, the child was scared to tell anyone. If you still say “big friggin deal” and “the kid probably deserved it”, please turn yourself in to the nearest police station and ask them to issue a restraining order preventing you to ever get within 100 metres of any child. Ever!
And Tim Tebow is consider a bad example because he prays too much..
Adrian Peterson had another son, one he had not met yet, who was killed by the mother’s boyfriend. Peterson was dismayed and outraged, so you’d think he would be cautious, eh?
The kid is 4 years old, cut skin from a switch on his scrotum – that’s harsh.