[ScottinVA]

Apparently Ian didn’t see the pics in which the stripes on that boy’s legs look like results of a slave whipping.

[kabar]

Peterson is known to have fathered at least five children with three different women, all out of wedlock (he just married one of the mothers this summer) and may have as many as seven kids, another of the mothers, a former exotic dancer, told TMZ last year.

Last year, Peterson was showered with sympathy after one of his children, a 2-year-old boy, was killed, allegedly at the hands of the mother's boyfriend. Peterson visited the child, who was on life support.

"I'm going to miss him," he told ESPN. "I kept telling him, 'I'm sorry.' "

We then discovered that Peterson only learned of the child's existence a few weeks earlier. And what was too insensitive to say then should be said now: How much could you miss him? And how might that tragedy not have happened if you'd been in the child's life the way a father should be?