OT: Adrian Peterson indicted in Child Injury Case

[desertdawg]

No. The only way there would have been uproar is if he took the switch and smoked it.

I can't believe he and Hardy are back on the scene already. Especially Peterson, after brutalizing a defenseless toddler. If you want to pop your children on the behind to discipline them, whatever. Won't be a problem. Literally whipping them until you repeatedly draw blood is not parenting, especially on a baby.

How can someone who already had another child murdered by abuse be so awful to their own defenseless son?
A parent is supposed to be the one person in the world a child can count on to defend them against things like that. If your parents won't protect you, who will?

"Brutalizing a defenseless toddler" is kind of glorifying the already obvious, can we be a little more civil with the way we word it? It is what it is and probably happened quicker than this post and nobody died, we are talking about a kid that won't ever starve. AP sucky? Yeah.
Is the kids doomed.... ? no.
Be better to teach them how to handle life though.

 

[desertdawg]

If you make it to the NFL and consider yourself a success, wouldn't you use the same path?

 

[desertdawg]

Doesn't that make sense? Do folks think AP just gets off on whooping midgets?

 

[desertdawg]

AP got beat (has to be learned), the elevator is bad timing, and his parenting is out of date.

 

[Southpaw]

Sure hope so. How anyone defends this guy is beyond me. A four year old?

Two four year olds and two incidents.

 

[Mulli]

Not on the westside when I grew up. But then again, look at today's kids.

I grew up on the west side. Kids in the 70s weren't so much better.

 

[Mulli]

Hey, Adrian. Cromartie and Evander think you have too many kids scattered around.

 

[Redneck Voodoo]

If you make it to the NFL and consider yourself a success, wouldn't you use the same path?

Beating your child with a stick= NFL?

Doesn't that make sense? Do folks think AP just gets off on whooping midgets?

Starting to look like it.

AP got beat (has to be learned), the elevator is bad timing, and his parenting is out of date.

Yeah, Bronze age suggestions for child rearing in the 21st century are just a tad out of date.

If this wasn't a well-known athlete, he would just be another criminal in the eyes of just about everyone, and the fact AP says his kids are going to know he loves them (paraphrased) doesn't impress me one bit.

 

[PDXChris]

How does that indict Peterson? He says he did it to himself. Personally, I could care less how AP disciplines his kids but there is no investigation into these allegations and, to me, it sounds more like KHOU, or whatever station it is, is trying to drum something up.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/1...-vikings-facing-second-child-abuse-accusation

Peterson never directly answered, the report said, but later replied: "Be still n take ya whooping he would have saved the scare (scar). He aight (all right)."

OK, now its clear. The 4 years old couldn't handling his beating so he hit is own head. Next time AP just needs to give the kid something hard to bite down on. Seriuosly, anyone that does not think this guy is a POS has issues. This guy has no clue, lets not forget that he thinks he is a slave too.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/15/adrian-peterson-slavery-nfl_n_836090.html

"It's modern-day slavery, you know? People kind of laugh at that, but there are people working at regular jobs who get treated the same way, too. With all the money,"

 

[Covert Rain]

It's bad enough if the allegations are true about his own son. However, the second child? The kid wasn't even his? The kid ended up having a band aid (and now scar) put on his freaking head because AP allegedly admitted to the mom he hit him. Now the story is the kid hit his head on a car seat while disciplining him? It's backed up by a witness but I still don't buy it.

It's Someone else freaking kid. The kid also looked old enough to tell his mom what had happened. If it was an accident I am sure the kid would have told his mom that was the case. She brought it to CPS which means that probably was not the case. If somebody did that to my kid...all hell would break loose. I don't give a damn who you are. It's curious why the mom stayed quite all this time but the story reads she didn't. She reported it but it went nowhere because it was "reasonable punishment". Well we all know what qualifies as "reasonable punishment" for AP.

Man o man. This guy appears to be another mega douche bag that should never play a down again in the NFL. I will seriously boycott watching any game he plays in as long as he is in the league. These are freaking KIDS!

 

[BillsCarnage]

Yeah, Bronze age suggestions for child rearing in the 21st century are just a tad out of date.

And yet lynch mob mentality by the general public is perfectly acceptable.

 

[PDXChris]

And yet lynch mob mentality by the general public is perfectly acceptable.

To protect a child, YES!!!

 

[Mulli]

And yet lynch mob mentality by the general public is perfectly acceptable.

 

[BillsCarnage]

To protect a child, YES!!!

There are WAY WAY more kids who suffer from more extreme abuse than this, but where is the public uproar?

The only reason people are making a fuss is because it's someone rich and famous. That's the TMZ lynch mob mentality.

 

[Mulli]

Not sure this is the correct usage of "lynch mob"

 

[Covert Rain]

And yet lynch mob mentality by the general public is perfectly acceptable.

He admitted to hitting kid with a freaking switch until he bled. He was accused by the other mother of hitting that kid. If the system fails and fans react, that is hardly lynch mob mentality. Usually Lynch mobs are associated with reacting BEFORE they know the truth and someone was accused. In this case he admitted to the first incident and was accused of the second.

As fans and as citizens, I always here people say...stop complaining about this or that. If you don't like something....vote or stress your opinion with your dollar. As soon as people do? Lynch Mob Mentality (which is incorrect usage by the way).

The reason people have outrage is because he is a public figure? That doesn't mean we all still don't have the same outrage for non-public figures. I see plenty of threads on crimes from non-celebrity type incidents. The only difference is there usually isn't a forum for every public incident because we don't hear about them all. That's weak.

I can't speak for anybody else but I have the SAME outrage for anybody that abuses a kid. The only difference is there is not a thread started for each one of those incidents. I hardly think that equates to people only being in an "uproar" because someone is a celebrity.

 

[crisper57]

Not sure this is the correct usage of "lynch mob"

You are right. If we are going to gang up on an NFL RB, it has to be the one in Seattle with that usage.

 

[Cheesebeef]

It's bad enough if the allegations are true about his own son. However, the second child? The kid wasn't even his? The kid ended up having a band aid (and now scar) put on his freaking head because AP allegedly admitted to the mom he hit him. Now the story is the kid hit his head on a car seat while disciplining him? It's backed up by a witness but I still don't buy it.

sounds like the old "I fell down the stairs" excuse someone makes when they got bruises they don't want people to question. in other words... complete bullcrap.

 

[Covert Rain]

sounds like the old "I fell down the stairs" excuse someone makes when they got bruises they don't want people to question. in other words... complete bullcrap.

No kidding. What kind of "reasonable discipline" would result in a kid hitting a car seat so hard it leaves a gash that causes a scar? If it was a simple accident the kid was old enough to tell his mom it was. That obviously wasn't the case or she wouldn't have contacted the authorities.

I am with you. Complete B.S.

 

[NJCardFan]

The thing that is really bothering me is that several people, most notably Charles Barkley, is trying to excuse this by saying that it's a "black thing". Am I the only one bothered by this connotation? http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/09/charles-barkley-adrian-peterson-video-ray-rice-cbs-nfl-today

Charles Barkley: “I’m from the south. I understand Boomer’s (Esiason) rage and anger. He’s a white guy and I’m a black guy. I don’t know where he’s from, I’m from the South. Whipping — we do that all the time. Every black parent in the south is going to be in jail under those circumstances. We have to be careful letting people dictate how –“

 

[Southpaw]

It's bad enough if the allegations are true about his own son. However, the second child? The kid wasn't even his? The kid ended up having a band aid (and now scar) put on his freaking head because AP allegedly admitted to the mom he hit him. Now the story is the kid hit his head on a car seat while disciplining him? It's backed up by a witness but I still don't buy it.

It's Someone else freaking kid. The kid also looked old enough to tell his mom what had happened. If it was an accident I am sure the kid would have told his mom that was the case. She brought it to CPS which means that probably was not the case. If somebody did that to my kid...all hell would break loose. I don't give a damn who you are. It's curious why the mom stayed quite all this time but the story reads she didn't. She reported it but it went nowhere because it was "reasonable punishment". Well we all know what qualifies as "reasonable punishment" for AP.

Man o man. This guy appears to be another mega douche bag that should never play a down again in the NFL. I will seriously boycott watching any game he plays in as long as he is in the league. These are freaking KIDS!

The story as I have read it, is that the child was claimed by another man to be the father, but a very recent DNA test proved the father was A P. The original man seems to be an okay guy who is and was willing to be the adoptive father.

About the baby who was beaten to death by the Baby Mama boyfriend, A P only found out he was the bio father a few months prior to the death, Rename this ass clown Johnny Appleseed. Going about the country germinating at will. Snip his equipment.

 

[PDXChris]

There are WAY WAY more kids who suffer from more extreme abuse than this, but where is the public uproar?

The only reason people are making a fuss is because it's someone rich and famous. That's the TMZ lynch mob mentality.

Incorrect. If this was you or I, we already would have lost our jobs and had the child taken away. AP sat out one game while still making 800K to be at home and will play this week all while still have parental rights. At the end of the day, he will plea and have to take some classes and pay a small fine while this child will continue to be whiped and will grow up being abused. That is why there is so much outrage.

 

[Cheesebeef]

The thing that is really bothering me is that several people, most notably Charles Barkley, is trying to excuse this by saying that it's a "black thing". Am I the only one bothered by this connotation? http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/09/charles-barkley-adrian-peterson-video-ray-rice-cbs-nfl-today

if that's your culture, then CHANGE THE FREAKING CULTURE.

 

[Redneck Voodoo]

And yet lynch mob mentality by the general public is perfectly acceptable.

I didn't call for anyone's lynching. I know that's a popular moniker to put on people so use it if you feel better about it. All I care about in this case, is not seeing another of his kids come home with their asses kicked. If that makes me part of a mob in your eyes, then I gladly accept the designatoin.

 

[Redneck Voodoo]

There are WAY WAY more kids who suffer from more extreme abuse than this, but where is the public uproar?

The only reason people are making a fuss is because it's someone rich and famous. That's the TMZ lynch mob mentality.

Sure, I wouldn't care if some poor kid got beat with a stick. Especially with his parents citing antiquated idiocy for the reason. Give me a freaking break.