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Adrian Peterson: Spanking incident was ‘blown out of proportion’

Adrian Peterson

Adrian Peterson still doesn’t think that what he did — spanking his child to the point of leaving bloody marks — was all that wrong.

Talking about the child abuse incident involving his four-year-old son that led to him getting suspended for all but one game of the 2014 season, the All-Pro running back said that the incident was “blown out of proportion.”

“So for me, I realize that, hey, it went overboard a little bit and it was because I didn’t see what was happening to him,” Peterson said, per Jason Cole, Bleacher Report. “But I understand that, and I understand that my son loves me and I love him, and everything just really got blown out of proportion, and I’m OK with that. I’m still here. My son is around me all the time. At the end of the day he still loves me and I love him, so it is what it is.”

This is really an incident where a simple, boring “no comment” or “I’m looking forward, not back” would have been better.

The pictures of his son, which can be seen here, don’t indicate that anything was blown out of proportion.

If the child had one bruise? Maybe. That would certainly be troubling and it would no doubt spark debates, but that could very easily be the result of a discipline that got out of hand. But multiple cuts and bruises? That’s a different story.

Additionally, in Peterson’s own words, he “didn’t see what was happening to him.” If you’re disciplining a child like that, shouldn’t you at least pay enough attention to see what is happening to him? To see when enough is enough?

Peterson has served his time for this incident. As long as something similar doesn’t happen again, he won’t serve a similar suspension. Really, he shouldn’t.

But comments like this are indicative of someone who doesn’t want to take responsibility for what he did. With that, the chances of something similar happening only increase.

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