Adrian Peterson - indictment for child abuse/neglect

http://www.tmz.com/2014/09/12/...ted-for-child-abuse/

KFAN just said the Vikings lead the NFL since 2000 for arrests, lol, Cincy is 2nd

If this is related to the loser his baby mama shacked up with it seems odd.

Was this one of his kids he knows about, or is this like his kid who died that he forgot he even had? 

WTF??? Oh c'mon....

No word linking this indictment to the Dakota case - baby's mama loser friend. Not sure why TX would indict for that case?

Must be something down here. 

In Texas

@RapSheet: The investigation has been going on for some time with Adrian Peterson, source says. He testified for a grand jury weeks ago.

@richarddeitsch: To paraphrase Chief Martin C. Brody of Jaws fame: The NFL Is going to need a bigger boat.

EDIT:  More from TMZ:

Sources connected to Peterson tell us ... the alleged victim is a male child from Minnesota who was visiting Adrian back in May at AP's home in Texas. 

We're told the child returned home to his mother in Minn. who noticed injuries and took the child to a doctor. A short time later, the doctor contacted authorities in Texas to report Adrian. 

Child Protective Services confirms they are working on a case involving Peterson and say the alleged victim is an 11-year-old boy. 

Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2014/09/12/...abuse/#ixzz3D8ag3Fpd

In deference to AP, I think the line is that a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich.  So, he's been indicted, but far from being found guilty of anything.  

It's good to always be skeptical about legal charges against NFL players.

PackerRuss, did you see the part where the indictment is in Texas?

I did, does that change anything?  I'm not nieve to what is happening, just putting an idea out there, that indictments aren't guilty findings.  

Furthermore, I am not a lawyer, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.  

I hope this is just overzealous law enforcement.  

Another virgin on X4?

Cops reportedly have photos of child with injuries. This has to be investigated and if need be prosecuted. 

AP has lawyered up:  @Edwerderespn: Adrian Peterson attorney is Rusty Hardin, Houston lawyer who won acquittal for Roger Clemens.

My bad, I can't believe I missed that, a virgin I am not on this board, haven't been on as long as you, but have been on close to 10 years.

With the week the NFL is having, does it matter who APs lawyer is?

How else will a child learn how to keep a woman in line when he grows up? 

whipping a kid with a switch? Good Lord! IF this is all there is my parents, grandparents, Aunts and Uncles  would have been sent to the firing squad. In fact, I remember hearing that parents used a switch instead of a belt because it did not leave marks. Of course just the term "I'm going to get my belt!" was enough to get kids to straighten up. Now kids just respond "I am going to call DCF" if you spank me. 

Has to be more to the story.....

Firing squad seems a bit harsh.

Did he give the kid a time-out first?  

in 30 years, "giving a time-out" will be looked as a horrible parenting. In 30 years, the new parenting skills for discipline will be to bring them to Chuck-E-Cheeze or its virtual entertainment equivalent and shower them with huggs and presents. Discipline of any kind will be subject to automatic six months in solitary confinment where the kids gets to walk by and say haha.

A little bit of corporal punisment is not necessarily a bad thing. A couple or 3 swats on the butt, without using your full force, but just enough to sting a bit and get the kids attention can be a useful parenting tool. But it should not result in anything more than maybe a red mark (if even that) that goes away after a few minutes. JMHO.

However it crosses over to child abuse if the adult uses his/her full strength and force in a prolonged beating that produces bruises, welts and or bleeding to occur. Also if the kid was swatted at the arms, back, face front and so on. Seems this MAY be more the case here since some time elapsed before the kid got back home to mom and she "noticed injuries" and has photo evidence of them. Again JMHO

However, the legal process will have to run its course before we know what truly went down. IF it was a severe enough beating to warrant him being proven guilty then that to me is even worse than spousal abuse, which is plenty bad in and of itself.

Whatever the kid did to get a whupping, Pederson should have only said, "thats not ok". I'm sure that would have done the trick.

I wonder if the kid thought he could talk to his father the way he talks to his teachers at school and get away with it.

I am willing to bet right now (without knowing anything) that there is not much more to the story.

And I'm sure the media will make it look like Hiroshima.

I left child support almost 8 years ago, i was a senior manager.  Durring my time there I seen alot of child abuse. All the red child support files endedup in my office.

It use to take quite a lot to get arrested for it. Did I hate that job.

So, does Goodell go over the top with a punishment on this to save face, or wait for more information?

Sometimes being cooperative with the authorities can get you in trouble. They wouldn't be able to prove the "injuries" occurred when the kid was in Texas. Not saying child abuse is ok. Grew up back in the day when you had to make a conscious choice as a kid to deal with the consequences of doing things you knew weren't allowed . Sometimes you even pressed the boundaries and then paid the price. I survived.

I think "used to" being the key words here.

Maybe it will be a Chuckie Cheese by 1990's standards.  That would be torture.

I guess some actual images of the 'switching.'

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/...ted-for-child-abuse/

Yeah, those pictures do look pretty bad. Over the top no doubt.

This story says 4 year old. Earlier in the thread says 11 year old, which is it?

Agreed.

Those pictures look like a four year old to me.

I sure wouldn't want you on a jury.

AD CA AP

It's was a Grand Ju.... Nevermind.  Keep on dumdumming along.