From Liberaland:
[Minnesota] Vikings running back Adrian Peterson has been indicted in Texas on child abuse charges, according to TMZ. At statement through Peterson’s lawyer Rusty Hardin said, ?The charged conduct involves using a switch to spank his son.?
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One law enforcement source told?TMZ? that Peterson decided to discipline his son by grabbing a branch from a tree, then whipping the child on his bare skin. Several of the child’s wounds were reportedly bleeding when the child went back to his mother in Minnesota, who in turn, took her son to the doctor. That doctor reported the injuries to authorities.
The Vikings issued a statement saying, ?The Vikings are in the process of gathering information regarding the legal situation involving Adrian Peterson.
Sources told?TMZ?the alleged victim is a male child from Minnesota who was visiting Adrian in May at his home in Texas.
Adrian Peterson was pulled from playing in Sunday’s game, but a Vikings fan still sent his own statement to Adrian Peterson, the Minnesota Vikings, and the NFL — he altered a jersey sporting Peterson’s number (28) to the national child abuse hotline.
From Mic:
Phil Hecken tweeted out this pic submitted by a Uni-Watch.com reader who replaced Peterson’s name with 1-800-4-A-CHILD, the number for the Childhelp’s National Child Abuse Hotline, an organization that, according to its website, “has helped connect individuals with the information or people they need as they confront child abuse in their lives, whether they are a child, parent, teacher or a concerned school administrator.”
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