[Scoutmaster]

You're welcome. I need to make a correction; they were text messages and not tweets. I've seen several articles with photos of text messages, and an article or two with more alleged text messages than these articles, but you can read the purported contents of a few at:

Disturbing text messages between Adrian Peterson and child's mother

Details on Adrian Peterson Indictment Charges

The text messages, which are quoted in the indictment, can be found throughout the reporting on this story. If you search, you'll find one in which Peterson says he hit the boy about five times more than he should have.

Texas law allows a parent to administer 'reasonable' corporal punishment to a charge. However, Texas law also makes it a felony to intentionally or negligently cause bodily harm or severe bodily harm to a child, elderly person, or disabled individual. The issue here is whether the punishment was 'reasonable' or not. That decision is not left to the parent administering the punishment, but to the DA, the grand jury, and the jury. Also, the first grand jury no-billed this charge.

[Mr Rogers]

Thank you for the links. This says a lot:

"He offered up information that the police didn’t have and was incredulous when asked if some of the numerous wounds and marks on the child were from an extension cord, saying, “Oh, no, I’d never hit my child with an extension cord. I remember how it feels to get whooped with an extension cord. I’d never do that.”

The marks show it was excessive, but I'm not sure it rises to felony level. It may depend on if one believes the child, or if the child is being encouraged by the mom in prep for a civil case...$$$.