Vikings RB Adrian Peterson indicted on Child Injury charge

[Acylum]

Sex Boats, Homophobia and Child Beating: The Story of the Minnesota Vikings

Why are you lumping sex boats in with things that are bad?

 

[Angie]

Wow, why would an enormous dude in fantastic physical condition need to beat his (clearly smaller) kid with a tool? Why would anyone, but I digress. Belt, whip, whatever, that is unnecessary.

 

[Cychedelia]

Wow, why would an enormous dude in fantastic physical condition need to beat his (clearly smaller) kid with a tool? Why would anyone, but I digress. Belt, whip, whatever, that is unnecessary.

Hand?

 

[Cyclonesince78]

Wow, why would an enormous dude in fantastic physical condition need to beat his (clearly smaller) kid with a tool? Why would anyone, but I digress. Belt, whip, whatever, that is unnecessary.

When I was 11, I deserved to get beat down on multiple occasions.

 

[Cychedelia]

When I was 11, I deserved to get beat down on multiple occasions.

Me too, and I did. And I'm better for it.

 

[Angie]

Hand?

A hand isn't considered a switch. A foreign object is.

When I was 11, I deserved to get beat down on multiple occasions.

I personally can't imagine a situation where getting hit would teach an 11 year old anything, but even if it did - a foreign object designed to hurt more is just nuts to me. An NFL running back needs to hit a child with something to make it hurt worse than his hand?

 

[Fitzy]

Add me to the group who got spanked and will do the same to my future kids when they act up.

 

[Angie]

Add me to the group who got spanked and will do the same to my future kids when they act up.

Spanking is one thing - beating with an implement is another.

 

[CyFan61]

An NFL running back needs to hit a child with something to make it hurt worse than his hand?

There's an argument that it would be worse for him to hit a child with his hand than it would be to use a switch.

 

[Cychedelia]

Spanking is one thing - beating with an implement is another.

I got hit with a stick when I grew up.....

 

[Angie]

There's an argument that it would be worse for him to hit a child with his hand than it would be to use a switch.

The law in most states disagrees.

 

[Cyclonesince78]

pic of the injury

 

[Cyclonesince78]

And this

 

[Cychedelia]

pic of the injury

Ehhhh that's not really anything.

 

[CyFan61]

The law in most states disagrees.

Can you show how that is the case?

 

[Cychedelia]

Can you show how that is the case?

About half don't allow the use of switches, however Texas, where Adrian was at the time, does allow it.

 

[CyForPresident]

That looks like a baby.

 

[Cyclonesince78]

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2014/09/12/adrian-peterson-indicted-for-child-abuse/

 

[jdoggivjc]

Wow, why would an enormous dude in fantastic physical condition need to beat his (clearly smaller) kid with a tool? Why would anyone, but I digress. Belt, whip, whatever, that is unnecessary.

The point is for the child to fear the implement, not the parent. If a parent uses their hand, there's a greater chance that the child ends up fearing the parent. Unless you do what AP did - then you end up fearing the implement AND the parent.

 

[Cychedelia]

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.

How can this happen?