Warrant issued for arrest of Vikings' Peterson (Trigger Warning: Graphic description of child abuse)

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40. This is abuse plain and simple

What could a 4 year old POSSIBLY do that would warrant this kind of treatment? They throw tantrums, they scream, they have accidents, and if they have siblings they fight (biting was a favorite with my nieces and nephews). But they are small children and that's just how small children can be sometimes, and in those situations you have to be the adult and just let it pass. If this guy didn't want to deal with all of that, then he shouldn't have had a kid in the first place! Little kids are fun and sweet for the most part, but they have their moments and you just have to deal with them. And another thing, say he didn't hurt his son at all, and these marks were on a let's say wife or girlfriend? Would anyone be saying "it's just discipline", and what about if it was a random person he assaulted like that? That's what it would be, assault, so why is it o.k. to do this to a child? If he did this to someone his own age or close to it, he'd be in jail, but if it's a child it's somehow o.k. That I don't understand. Also, this child is probably traumatized beyond belief that someone that should have cared about him betrayed him like that. I just hope there are plenty of people in this child's life to give him the love he deserves, and I also hope that there is a nice pretty prison cell for daddy, where he will probably make tons of new "friends".