Adrian Peterson Indicted

It's harder to keep this stuff quiet now than it was back then.

 

The pictues - on TMZ - are NOT pretty; marks on his back, butt, hips, legs and arms.

Peterson has 7 kids? Does that include the on that died?

 

Never said anything of the sort. Said it's a tough call. And maybe AP did do something horribly wrong. Was the child injured? I haven't seen enough yet to tell.

Vikings waste no time deactivating him.

 

FOUR YEAR OLD VICTIMwarrant for his arrest Vikings have deactivated him

He whipped a 4 year old, he beat a 4 year old. He gave bloody injuries to a 4 year old. Thats not discipline that abuse.

 

Yeah, my first thought was "smacked with a switch? Sounds like my childhood and everyone else in the South."

Then I saw the pictures. Nevermind! Jail the fucker.

 

OK, yeah, fuck that. I gave him the benefit of the doubt given that my grandmother and father used similar tactics, but they did not do THAT to me. And I wasn't 4 years old. He deserves whatever he gets. Damn, what is wrong with the NFL?

 

So, how old is this kid? I have seen reports that it is an 11-year-old and reports that the kid is four.

This one from cbs.sportsline has both. WTF?

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24706732/report-adrian-peterson-indicted-in-child-injury-case-in-texas

That said, if that story is correct, forget everything I said about waiting on the courts. The mother claims he admitted "whooping" the child. If those welts in the picture really are the result, the NFL does not need to wait on the legal system to take action.

 

Yeah. Shit. Guess I should have looked at the photos on the link I provided up the thread. In my haste to be among the first, I got it wrong.

 

I keep seeing conflicting reports regarding the child's age, but the rush to throw stuff out there is par for the course.

That said, I agree on your last point. Those injuries are not the result of appropriate discipline. They are the result of abuse.

 

oop, did you rail against MLB for suspending John Rocker in violation of his First Amendment rights? Because that's what you're doing here. Due process is for the legal process -- it means he can't be punished by the government without a guilty verdict. It doesn't have a goddamn thing to do with his employers.

Now that we're hearing it's a 4-year-old, I would wager large amounts of money that any company would immediately fire a person charged with causing those kinds of welts and bruises on a 4-year-old child. But not the NFL.

 

So how does this square with your original position? You're either for due process or you're not. You can't just pick and choose, which the NFL is learning the hard way.

 

BDC nailed that one. Peterson is still in the due process stage if you believe in that.