So the other allegation is something that happened last year (
when the child was 3 EDIT: Looks like the kid was 4 then, is 5 now). It's a different kid than the one he took a switch to. Here is a text exchange provided by that child's mother and reported by ESPN:
Mother: "What happened to his head?"
Peterson: "Hit his head on the Carseat."
Mother: "How does that happen, he got a whoopin in the car."
Peterson: "Yep."
Mother: "Why?"
Peterson: "I felt so bad. But he did it his self."
According to the report, Peterson then goes on to say he was disciplining his son for cursing at a sibling, though how specifically the child was wounded wasn't made clear.
Mother: "What did you hit him with?"
Peterson never directly answered, the report said, but later replied: "Be still n take ya whooping he would have saved the scare (scar). He aight (all right)."
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/11534340/adrian-peterson-minnesota-vikings-facing-second-child-abuse-accusationSee guys, if the toddler had just stayed still and dealt with his running back father hitting him, he wouldn't have a scar on his head from the carseat! Sounds pretty open-and-shut to me, if anything the kid should be in trouble here.
All sarcasm aside, I respect parents choosing physical punishment in some cases, but there's definitely a line, and AP appears to be what Charlie Murphy would call "a habitual line-stepper". But at least there's no video!