Vikings RB Adrian Peterson indicted for child abuse; deactivated for Pats game at Minnesota

This is terrible to see. I hope Peterson realizes that what he's done is completely unnecessary and abusive. I could not imagine ever hitting my 4 year old much less doing it that many times with a stick.

I'm sure his son learned his lesson.

Fixit said:

Congratulations! Here's your 1-Year No Child Abuse chip.

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I discipline my son I do not abuse him. There is a difference between an occasional swat on the butt to get his attention and abuse like is shown in the pictures posted.

Also bear in mind that those photos were taken a week after the abuse. That's after a week of healing. Can't even imagine what they looked like immediately after.

Oh, and I believe Peterson's lawyer, Rusty Hardin, is the same one Roger Clemens used for his perjury case he was acquitted in a few years ago.

What makes it even more mind boggling is why he did it, take a look at the article I posted a few pages back - it was over the 4 year old pushing his brother off of a video game!

There is a huge, huge gap in "kid pushes sibling" and "beat the crap out of a kid with a stick to the point of drawing blood"...there's something wrong between Mr Peterson's ears to decide that was appropriate action to take.

TommyBrady12 said:

You don't have to agree with me, but to call my opinion "idiotic" is crossing the line, especially since it's not related to football. Half the county probably agrees with you, the other half may agree with me. It's just a difference in opinion. I would think you would know better as a moderator.

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Anyone can call a post or opinion "idiotic" or whatever.

They cannot call a poster such.

Hope that clears it up for you.

And yes, a post defending the use of a belt or a stick on a 4 year old child is idiotic. In fact, I could use many far stronger terms.

pazrul72 said:

I discipline my son I do not abuse him. There is a difference between an occasional swat on the butt to get his attention and abuse like is shown in the pictures posted.

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Weird how I get my kid's attention by saying his name. You keep on pretending that it's just an "occasional swat on the butt," and that you're so much more evolved than AP.

Brady_to_Moss said:

Who is their back up

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http://www.vikings.com/team/depth-chart.html

Matt Asiata, apparently. When you're paying your RB1 as much as Peterson is making, you can't really spend on backups.

http://www.nfldraftscout.com/ratings/dsprofile.php?pyid=68439&draftyear=2011&genpos=RB

Big, slow, 230 pound RB. Scored 3 TDs against the Eagles last year, but nothing much in his career other than that.

Also, Jerick McKinnon is the third string guy. Combine stud with a ton of potential, but pretty raw atm.

shmessy said:

When I was very little, I thought it would be hilarious to use a pretty bad curse word on my mom. My dad spanked me. That did zilch except create resentment that went away within hours. What stays with me right to this day, is the look on my mom's face when I dropped that bomb. Ive never forgotten it.

Physical force doesn't teach. A parent's love and example does.

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I used to be corporally punished with a belt as a child and I know it happened half a dozen times. The worst being after I intentionally threw out all my toys from my second story window and broke them on the concrete driveway below after having asked for new or more toys and being told "no, there's nothing wrong with the toys you have now".

I was a literal, snarky little f_ck even back then.

Corporal punishment continued through my young childhood with various swats with a belt, my father being the one to have to come home from work and be the bad guy.

Finally one day, he came home, closed the door to the bedroom, locked it and proceeded to "whoop" the hell out of a chair beside me. I screamed and cried out to the best of my budding dramatic talent. By the end my mother was in tears and pounding on the door and probably close to calling the police.

I was never corporally struck again as a punishment and even have a friend whose father did almost exactly the same thing with the same results. While I cant say I didnt deserve some of the swats I did get, its really only the latter story that sticks with me 30 years later.

With the Vikings action, there'll be tremendous pressure for the Panthers to do the same with Hardy, particularly in light of the fact that in Peterson's case it's "only" an indictment whereas Hardy was found guilty and is appealing to a jury trial.

shmessy said:

Anyone can call a post or opinion "idiotic" or whatever.

They cannot call a poster such.

Hope that clears it up for you.

And yes, a post defending the use of a belt or a stick on a 4 year old child is idiotic. In fact, I could use many far stronger terms.

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It's a political/cultural difference of opinion...it has nothing do with football.

If we don't win this game now....

4-3
Revis vs. Jennings in press
Dennard/Butler on Patterson with McCourty help
Focus on Rudolph
Bring pressure/loaded boxes to Cassel all day

Don't complicate things BB.

Fixit said:

Weird how I get my kid's attention by saying his name. You keep on pretending that it's just an "occasional swat on the butt."

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That's because for some parents that's all It is. I can call his name now and he listens but there was a time when he was younger that was not enough to drive home the lesson that what he did was wrong. I got no enjoyment out of spanking him and wish I never had to. There is a major difference between discipling your child and abuse and I resent your implication that I abused my son. I do not condone real abuse and assuming those are legit pictures of AP's son then he MAJORLY crossed the line and should never see the child again without supervised visits and if jail time is part of it he deserves every minute he gets.

It's really a horrible story. I always liked Peterson, rooted for him, felt great when he came back from his knee injury, felt horrible when his 2 year old (who he didn't even know) was murdered. But after this, I could never root for this man again. In fact I will root against him every game he plays. What a disgusting individual (I can't call him a human). I actually hope he get's suspended as well.

I am 51, yet I can count on 2 fingers how many times I was disciplined a little rough, then on the other hand I can count my actual spankings as a kid. Though I was born in 1962, I guess my parents were more advanced when it came to discipline, and in fact, I felt more horrible disappointing my parents than I did getting a spanking. They would talk to us about things, and maybe it was because they are both very intelligent people they knew how to correct our wrongs instead of beating it out of us.

I always thought people who lash out in violence, whether it's people trying to hurt others, or parents whooping their children severely, was due to lack of intelligence, they just don't have the mental wherewithal to work things out verbally, so they resort to violence. I still feel that way in light of recent developments with NFL players. We aren't dealing with Rhode Scholars here.

This is one of those litmus tests that reveal horrible people. Like the Hernandez apologists and the Incognito Fan Club.

If this keeps up, Federal Prison is going to be able to field a better football team than the NFL.

They got a 50 million dollar TE, lots of depth at running back. Maybe if Big Ben hits the `dating scene`, they'll pick up a quarterback who can extend the play.

I got no problem with parents giving a child a smack to the ass. I even got the belt once or twice myself.

Those pictures, if accurate, go beyond that.
Those pictures, if accurate, warrant jailtime.

pazrul72 said:

That's because for some parents that's all It is. I can call his name now and he listens but there was a time when he was younger that was not enough to drive home the lesson that what he did was wrong. I got no enjoyment out of spanking him and wish I never had to. There is a major difference between discipling your child and abuse and I resent your implication that I abused my son. I do not condone real abuse and assuming those are legit pictures of AP's son then he MAJORLY crossed the line and should never see the child again without supervised visits and if jail time is part of it he deserves every minute he gets.

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Resent it all you want. I'm sure you had no other option to discipline your 4-year-old, and that it hurt you more than it hurt him.

Please.

TommyBrady12 said:

Parents should have the right to discipline their kids reasonably, which ought to include a spanking.

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If you need to hit your child to make him or her behave then you should not be a parent.

scott99 said:

It's really a horrible story. I always liked Peterson, rooted for him, felt great when he came back from his knee injury, felt horrible when his 2 year old (who he didn't even know) was murdered. But after this, I could never root for this man again. In fact I will root against him every game he plays.......

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Don't worry, he's taken his last snap.

He injured a 4 year old child's scrotum in a "whooping room".

His career was officially DOA the moment that hit the airwaves.