<p>Unbelievable. A four year old child.</p>
<p>Seems the NFL is so rotten to the core that even the happy thread can’t stay happy. I forget his name but there’s a guy who was reinstated by the Cowboys after bring convicted of intoxication manslaughter. WTH kind of league is this?</p>
<p>Then there’s this series of charts (take it with a grain of salt):
<a href=“What the Numbers Show About N.F.L. Player Arrests - The New York Times”>What the Numbers Show About N.F.L. Player Arrests - The New York Times;
The Vikings have the most criminals! </p>
<p>I’m taking that chart with a lot of grains of salt. Do the Minnesota Vikings have players who are more likely to be arrested, or does Minnesota have a press that is more likely to report arrests of NFL players? I’m betting the latter.
Notice that the Jets and the Giants (same media market) have similar rates of arrest.</p>
<p>The report showed that DUI was the likeliest crime and mentioned that players in larger cities might be less likely to drink and drive because of public transportation. Which makes me wonder if there are Jets players on the subway. Somehow, I can’t picture it! </p>
<p>He spanked his kid. The child was acting up and he spanked him. That is not child abuse. Child abuse is not feeding your kid, locking them in a closet, ‘fighting’ the child like you would a grown adult. A spanking is in no way shape or form child abuse. As a child who used to get spanked (and I don’t anymore because at 17 years old, you should just know to do the right thing anyway) I resented it. But if I hadn’t been disciplined I wouldn’t have grown to be a respectable person today. I go to school with kids whose view on whoopings is that it’s barbaric. Well those are the same kids who are the most spoiled, the most rotten, and have the least amount of respect and morals. What AD did is in no way comparable to what Ray Rice did. At all. </p>
<p>Oh please, emenya. You can raise kids to be respectful and not spoil them without using physical means. </p>
<p>And he didn’t just “spank” his kid. He hit him with a switch. That’s not just a tap on the butt. </p>
<p>Hitting your child with a switch is child abuse. Apparently Peterson learned how to abuse his child from being hit with a switch as a child as well. At least Rice’s wife is old enough to understand what happened and make decisions on how to deal with it. Peterson’s kid does not have the benefit.</p>
<p>He left his four-year-old child bruised and bleeding, as is documented in pictures easily available on the internet. That’s not what most of us think of as a spanking.</p>
<p>I suspect that to many people, particularly southerners like Peterson or people raised by folks with roots in the south, Peterson’s actions were reasonable UNTIL he caused physical injury. Whoopings of misbehaving children was nothing out of the ordinary. There’s the famous line from Sidney Portier in ‘The Heat of the Night’ about being “horsewhipped” on occasion by his dad. Well obviously, the mores today are a bit different and somewhat fuzzy about corporal punishment for children. Some folks are dead set against it (as are many jurisdictions) and other folks say that a swat on the behind or an old fashioned whooping is especially appropriate in some instances. Leaving bruises or drawing blood is never appropriate.</p>
<p>If this is accurate this was not a classic, garden variety “spanking” or “swat” on the backside.</p>
<p><a href=“Adrian Peterson -- Indicted for Child Abuse ... Doc Reported Injuries (Photo Update)”>Adrian Peterson -- Indicted for Child Abuse ... Doc Reported Injuries (Photo Update);
<p>I heard that the initial grand jury declined to indict him. If the Ray rice situation had not happened AP would be playing tomorrow.</p>
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<p>I think you are stereotyping southerners again because you don’t know anything about. </p>
<p>I don’t think many people believe using a switch is ever appropriate. Every time a switch is used it causes physical injury; that’s the point of using a switch.</p>
<p>I hope Peterson gets Riced and is out of the league forever. </p>
<p>Have you seen the photographs? The child’s thighs are crisscrossed with injuries, both cuts and bruises. He is 4 years old! I can’t imagine anything a 4 year-old could do that would require that kind of repeated and brutal “discipline”. </p>
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<p>Cutting the kid’s scrotum accidentally? Stuffing his mouth with leaves so he can’t yell? No decent man does this to a 4 year old child. </p>
<p>I loved watching him play, but this action is not defendable. Ban him.</p>
<p>Greenwich, did you take a moment to think about what I said? I expressly said physical injury, bruises and blood cross the line.</p>
<p>Razor, apparently you and I know a different set of southerners of a certain age; southerners who rise up with indignant defense at being criticized for punishing their children with whoopings. Though I never knew anyone who punished their children to the point of injury and certainly not bruises or bleeding. I definitely knew southern kids whom, while not physically harmed, were certainly were “damaged” by whoopings with switches, severe punishment that led to problematic behavior as adults and maladjustment. I never resorted to corporal punishment with my own children, but I’m reluctant to condemn parents who use it, short of injury, unless I know the details of their situation, which of course most outsiders such as myself do not. Incidentally, more than once I have personally stopped and admonished parents in public when I have observed them cuss at their INFANTS and TODDLERS, or worse, violently strike them. My thoughts at such incidents are usually, ‘that poor kid is doomed because of idiot parents.’</p>
<p>If Peterson’s actions were similarly severe, that is, beating a child, bruising a child, scarring a child and essentially torturing a child (leaves in the mouth) then Peterson is an idiot, too.</p>
<p>The NY daily news has it right.</p>
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<p><a href=“Roger Goodell should throw Adrian Peterson out of the NFL for the Vikings RB’s alleged acts of child abuse – New York Daily News”>http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/myers-roger-goodell-throw-adrian-peterson-league-child-abuse-indictment-article-1.1938241</a></p>
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<p><a href=“Adrian Peterson could have 7 kids: ex”>http://nypost.com/2013/10/17/adrian-peterson-could-have-7-kids-ex/</a></p>
<p>Peterson is a creep. </p>
<p>My HS team won big last night. Woot! After a couple of down years, I like the way they are bouncing back!</p>
<p>My comment about Adrian Peterson and the South is that he was indicted in the South by a Southern grand jury so they believe he crossed a line into criminal abuse of a child. </p>