It is such a shocker that this former A list NFL player who beat his four year old son with a tree branch all over his bare body would be violent towards another person too.

Adrian Peterson

Adrian Peterson admits he still uses switch to discipline his children

Adrian Peterson is enjoying a renaissance year with the Washington Redskins, on pace for his first 1,000-yard season since 2015.

In a new profile on Bleacher Report by Master Tesfatsion, Peterson discusses his ever-present obsession with greatness, but also addresses his complicated past and admits to still doing the very thing that cost him a season of his career.

In 2014, Peterson missed essentially the entire season when he was indicted on charges of reckless or negligent injury to a child. He had used a switch — a long, thin, flexible branch used in corporal punishment — to discipline one of his sons, who was 4 at the time.

The boy suffered cuts and bruises to his legs, buttocks and even scrotum. A Minnesota doctor saw the marks and reported them to authorities. However, since the incident had occurred in Peterson’s native Texas, the situation fell under the jurisdiction of Montgomery County in that state. – Source

Adrian Peterson arrested for alleged domestic violence after conflict with wife on plane, per report

Hours before Super Bowl LVI was scheduled to kick off, free-agent running back Adrian Peterson was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport and booked for felony domestic violence, according to TMZ.

Per the report, airport police were called in around 8:30 a.m. over a disturbance on a plane leaving LAX for a flight to Houston. The plane reportedly had to turn around and link back up with the gate after what TMZ described as “an apparent verbal and physical altercation between a man and woman.”

A preliminary investigation reportedly led to Peterson being taken into custody after the alleged victim was found to have a small mark from the incident. The flight eventually departed as planned, with the alleged victim remaining on board. – Source

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