This story is not looking good for Adrian Peterson or the NFL as a whole at the moment. There is already enough negative news surrounding the NFL recently that this report about Adrian Peterson just compounds everything. Photos of the injuries that Adrian Peterson allegedly caused to his son have hit the web and we have them for you to see. Is this a case of just a father maybe overreacting with his own child, or something more? According to a new report, the child went back home to his mother and immediately told her that his dad (Adrian) had beaten him with a stick! Hit the jump for the story and photos.
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Sports Radio 610 in Houston obtained a draft of the police report which says Peterson admitted that he did, in his words, “whoop” one of his children last May while the boy was visiting him in Houston.
When the 4-year-old boy returned to Minnesota, his mother took him to a doctor. The police report said the boy told the doctor Peterson had hit him with a branch from a tree.
The doctor told investigators that the boy had a number of lacerations on his thighs, along with bruise-like marks on his lower back and buttocks and cuts on his hand.
The police report says the doctor described some of the marks as open wounds and termed it “child abuse.” Another examiner agreed, calling the cuts “extensive.”
Photographs obtained from the Houston police report showed pictures of the injuries.
Another picture showed Peterson demonstrating the kind of switch he used.
When investigators questioned Peterson, they say he told them he regarded it as a normal spanking and not excessive. A grand jury seated earlier this summer decided not to charge him, but now a second new grand jury has indicted Peterson.
The Minnesota Vikings released a statement Friday afternoon saying the team is “in the process of gathering information regarding the legal situation involving Adrian Peterson. At this time, we will defer further questions to Adrian’s attorney Rusty Hardin.”
