{"id":11601,"date":"2014-09-15T20:21:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T00:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=11601"},"modified":"2014-09-15T20:46:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T00:46:45","slug":"adrian-peterson-being-investigated-for-another-child-abuse-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/09\/15\/adrian-peterson-being-investigated-for-another-child-abuse-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Peterson cleared of second child abuse incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11582\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11582\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11582\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/adrianpeterson.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/adrianpeterson.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/adrianpeterson-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:\u00a0<\/strong>This case has already been closed according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2014\/09\/15\/adrian-peterson-second-child-abuse-investigation-houston-minnesota-vikings-nfl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">TMZ<\/a> who passed along the following report:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>5:05 PM PT &#8212; Sources close to the investigation tell TMZ the reason the case went nowhere is because Adrian did NOT strike the boy in the forehead &#8212; but instead the child accidentally hit his head on a carseat while Adrian was punishing him.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re also told the form of discipline was &#8220;not impermissible.&#8221; Under Texas law parents are allowed to administer reasonable punishment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Adrian Peterson was reinstated by the Vikings on Monday but according to CBS 11 Houston the running back is facing a second case of child abuse.<\/p>\n<p>According to CBS 11 Houston, Peterson is being investigated for an incident which left a scar over the right eye of one of his children after he cursed a sibling. This is in addition to a case which Peterson is being investigated for using a &#8220;switch&#8221; to discipline another four-year-old child.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KHOU?src=hash\">#KHOU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ITEAM?src=hash\">#ITEAM<\/a> Adrian Peterson investigated for another abuse accusation involving another one of his sons. More at 6! <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/dH4tad2ovk\">pic.twitter.com\/dH4tad2ovk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 KHOU 11 News Houston (@KHOU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KHOU\/status\/511644523861004288\">September 15, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>There is not a lot of information yet. Peterson has at-least five children from multiple mothers.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings and NFL could choose to further disciple Peterson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE:\u00a0This case has already been closed according to TMZ who passed along the following report: 5:05 PM PT &#8212; Sources close to the investigation tell TMZ the reason the case went nowhere is because Adrian did NOT strike the boy in the forehead &#8212; but instead the child accidentally hit his head on a carseat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[148,426,152,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-11601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-adrian-peterson","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-minnesota-vikings","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11601"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11606,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11601\/revisions\/11606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11601"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}