HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas prosecutor says a grand jury backed a child abuse charge against Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson after it spent several weeks reviewing “lots of evidence.”
Montgomery County prosecutor Phil Grant said Saturday that parents are entitled to discipline their children, but that grand jury members felt Peterson went too far after they looked at the child’s injuries.
Peterson is charged with causing injury to a child for allegedly spanking one of his sons with a wooden switch on or around May 18. If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to two years in prison and fined up to $10,000.
Peterson was booked and released from a Houston-area jail earlier Saturday. The Vikings benched him for this weekend’s home opener against the New England Patriots.
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He needs to be sentenced to some parenting classes.
He need the same punishment he meted out give by someone the “gets into it”
I’m sure the Grand Jury also looked at the text messages Peterson sent to the boy’s mother:
"Peterson then texted the boy’s mother, saying that one wound in particular would make her “mad at me about his leg. I got kinda good wit the tail end of the switch.”
"Peterson also allegedly said via text message to the child’s mother that he “felt bad after the fact when I notice the switch was wrapping around hitting I (sic) thigh” and also acknowledged the injury to the child’s scrotum in a text message, saying, “Got him in nuts once I noticed. But I felt so bad, n I’m all tearing that butt up when needed! I start putting them in timeout. N save the whooping for needed memories!”
"In further text messages, Peterson allegedly said, “Never do I go overboard! But all my kids will know, hey daddy has the biggie heart but don’t play no games when it comes to acting right.”
And the kid is 4, let’s not forget that. Sigh.
If we remove all violent offenders from NFL who will they draft? Tucker “Toilet Troller” Carlson, Carson Daley and Brian Kilmeade?