Posted on 09/12/2014 7:42:44 PM PDT by xzins
An arrest warrant was issued Friday in Texas for Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson after he was indicted on a child abuse charge for using a branch to spank his son. He won't play in Sunday's game against the New England Patriots.
The Vikings said they had deactivated Peterson for Sunday's game Friday evening, just after his lawyer and the Montgomery County sheriff's office confirmed he was
Read Adrian Peterson's lawyer Rusty Hardin's statement in full below:
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.
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Reagan took some employees to the woodshed....
A switch is intended to sting, and it will leave a welt. I’m from a different era, I guess, and I used to get switched. It hurt. It worked. I still think my mom loved me.
Of course, anything can be taken overboard, but I don’t seem to be getting that sense here.
When I was a kid, I and all my close friends received pretty severe switchings. Mother was not quite as brutal as Daddy but she would also sometimes switch us.
Now my parents were excellent parents. My Mother, I consider the best person I ever knew. I am sure all of us kids could today get our Fathers convicted of child abuse.
Good news...we play the Vikes on Sunday.
http://www.tmz.com/2014/09/12/adrian-peterson-indicted-for-child-abuse/
Looks bad, given that the pics are several days after...
/johnny
I agree. I’d rather face a belt or paddle than a switch just about any day. A switch stung first time, every time. But it wasn’t deadly or anything. Definitely taught me to dance, though. :>)
Amen! I thank my parents that they took me to the woodshed (paddled my behind) once in a while. Cause me no permanent harm and helped me understand the error of my ways. LOL!
Did you see the pictures of the cuts that were supposedly from a week later and the fact that he got him on the scrotum? I don’t know man, a four year old? If all that is legit then it’s waaaaay beyond the pale, at least in my opinion.
FReegards
/johnny
Geeze man, I got hit by 70’s era Phone handsets, curtain rods, ping pong paddles, broom handles, belts, shoes, flashlights, hair brushes, wooden spoons, salad bowl tongs ... almost everything but a switch ... whatever my Irish mother could find.
I could walk on the ceiling when daddy had a switch.
/johnny
Don’t bother. They won’t hear you.
my grandma had switches. A bunch in one of the bedrooms. The cousins and I would hide them. I think I was the only grandchild she watched who never got the switch :)))
I had not seen the pictures.
Yes, I never had any which would have shown up days later.
A bloody 4 year old is way out of bounds. Not to mention the bruises and the scrotum...
It was way out of bounds in the 1960’s, too.
Assuming the reports are accurate.
I always got “the belt” and always had to “smell it” first. LOL! I thank my parents for it. Unlike most “parental units” these days, my parents weren’t terrified of their children.
I too got to do the willow Branch Dance
/johnny
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