Not sure of the entire story but it looks like he took a spanking to far for his 4 yr old. That being said a lot of parents have used switches to spank and that does not make them bad people or parents.

Need more details. I have had many whooping with a twig.

I picked my own switches when I was younger.
I can say I earned every spanking I got.


That story needs more details.

Spanking = He is a good man
Beating = He needs to go to prison

If you've seen the pics of the little 4 year old, you'd say it was a hell of a beating.

AP's son

You can decide.

He even said in the call to the child's mother that he got him one time on the testicles, kid must have been naked.

I said it in the football forum and I'll say it here,

If you draw blood and leave bruises then that is abuse.

That's why I posted it. My grandmothers always threatened to use switches on me but my parents would get ahold of me before it got that far so I've never been hit with a switch. I would assume that a switch would leave marks like that. I know a lot of older folks used switches and that did not make them bad people. It does look excessive for a 4 year old.

The pictures look bad but if there were pictures of every beating I ever had my parents would be in Prison. I will say this and ya'll can fry me but what does it teach the kid if you prosecute his Dad for discipline. It went to far but prosecuting him to me takes it way to much farther.

What does it teach the kid to whip him like that for pushing another kid? Why have a special room set aside for punishment and why make the child hold the leaves in his mouth while you whip him? There is believed to be a pattern of abuse by Peterson so I see no problem with what they are doing. If something isn't addressed then that kid grows up to beat his kids or maybe start knocking women out in elevators.

Just because our parents did something to us doesn't make it right. I took a few whippings that left some marks. I dreaded the speech my Dad was going to give me before the whipping more than the whipping. He was a master at Psychological Warfare but sometimes I think the speech was so he could calm down before trying to beat some smarts into my thick skull.

X2

The kid is 4! When I first heard the story I thought it was a 17 year old kid or something.
To top it off, another one of his baby Momma beat another of his kids to death last year right?

Thanks for the picture. That is too far. To me that is worse than what Ray Rice did.

I got spanked as a kid: Hand, belt, switch, but never was there any blood or even marks more than ~15 mins after it was over.

I disagree completely. Peterson was trying to be a father. Rice was trying to be a thug. Intent is the difference.

I agree.

I can remember a switching from my great grandmother that didn't leave big whelps or blood. I don't beat up old ladies now and I like to think I grew up not getting into any big trouble because of the beatings I took and I knew would be waiting on me at home.

X3. And I didn't dare come back with a substandard one.

I've never had to resort to physical violence to ever get my son to understand what he did was wrong, why it was wrong and why he shouldn't do it again. Never.

X4 my grandma use to tear my legs up with a peach tree limb.

How do you give a child a whooping without leaving a bruise thats near impossible.