Adrian Peterson has been investigated for abuse against another of his children, according to a report from TMZ and KHOU.
On Friday, NFL Vikings’ running back Adrain Peterson was indicted and arrested, then released on bond, on charges related to his admitted “whooping” of his four-year old son. The beating, involving a switch — a slender tree branch — left marks the medical examiner called “extreme” and labeled “child abuse.”
Peterson was “deactivated” and did not play in Sunday’s game against the Patriots.
The Vikings lost.
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Today, Vikings owners announced Peterson will be playing this Sunday.
Now, just hours after that shocking decision, reports are coming in that Peterson has been investigated for abusing another of his children, a son who is also four years old.
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Peterson has several children — he has never publicly stated how many, but it is believed he has fathered between five and seven children. He married for the first time earlier this year.
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The Atlantic Wire, among others including TMZ, points to a report by KHOU:
On Monday evening, however, KHOU, the local CBS affiliate in Houston, Texas reported that Peterson may be implicated in a second domestic abuse incident. According to their report, Peterson was investigated by Child Protective Services in another incident involving another one of his sons, who is also four-years-old. The network displayed text messages between Peterson and the child’s mother in which the mother questioned a scar that appeared on their son. She asked what Peterson hit the young boy with, and Peterson neglected to reply, but made it clear that he punished the child because he was cursing at a sibling. One of the messages from Peterson reads: “Be still n take ya whooping he would have saved the scare (scar). He aight (all right)”
CBS also obtained an image of the child with Band-Aids covering a wound. Other pictures taken later show a scar over the boy’s eye. No charges were filed and it’s unclear how the CPS case was resolved.
This text messages, according to KHOU, read:
Mother: “What happened to his head?”
Peterson: “Hit his head on the Carseat.”
Mother: “How does that happen, he got a whoopin in the car.”
Peterson: “Yep.”
Mother: “Why?”
Peterson: “I felt so bad. But he did it his self.”
Here’s that tweet and photo from KHOU:
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