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Peterson faces child abuse charges
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NATIONAL Football League star running back Adrian Peterson turned himself in to Texas authorities early yesterday, hours after he was indicted on charges of hitting his young son.
KPRC-TV said Peterson was booked into the Montgomery County, Texas, jail around 1:06am. He has been charged with one count of reckless or negligent injury to a child, and his bond was set at US$15,000.
The emerging scandal is only the latest to hit the world’s richest sports league.
The NFL is also reeling from the uproar caused by a surveillance video of former Baltimore Ravens star Ray Rice brutally punching the woman who is now his wife in a hotel elevator.
The charges against Peterson were in connection with disciplining his four-year-old son. The Minnesota Vikings running back allegedly hit the boy with a tree branch as a form of discipline over the summer. The punishment allegedly resulted in multiple injuries to the boy, Houston’s CBS radio 650 said.
The former most valuable player was summoned by a grand jury in Texas, his lawyer said, reportedly on charges of reckless or negligent injury to a child.
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