When I made my post there were pictures that appeared to be of a 4 year old's arm bloodied up because AP went old school with the lumber. Those photos were taken sometime after the incident (obviously) and they LOOKED pretty bad considering that time had passed and the wound had probably been cleaned somewhat by the time it was taken. (To me, on my monitor, in my home.) Kids are just as serious business as women are and, for me at least, the crime is just as revolting as the other one.
So it's a leap, but at time of my post, I thought the possibility is on the table, ESPECIALLY because of the timing. (From a marketing perspective alone, if that makes sense.)
This is the same AP that called the NFL slavery, had a child he didn't even know he had die in the care of another less than a year ago, and now this. I know he seems nice in interviews, but there's obviously some issues with the guy. And this would seem to demonstrate they're not "past" issues. I'm not saying he's a monster, etc. (I don't know yet- need to read more.) But there's now stuff you can point to in recent history that are red flags of past behavior that won't help him in the court of public opinion which is going to be hungry for more action from the NFL to clean up its ranks.
So yeah I took a kneejerk leap, but my thinking above justified my perspective. I'm just now signing on to see what additional info there is.