Adrian Peterson admits to spanking his son with a belt four years after the indictment, suspension

Four years after being charged by a grand jury of criminal offenses for negligence or neglect of a child and suspended by the NFL, Adrian Peterson admitted that he still disciplined his children using forms of physical punishment.

Speaking to Master Tesfatsion of Bleacher Report, Peterson said that he had recently spanked his son with a belt. He also did not totally exclude the use of a switch when he is disciplining his children. While asserting that he sometimes used other forms of punishment, such as removing their electronic devices, placing them in a time-frame and forcing them to do wall squats, he asserted that physical forms of punishment were sometimes necessary.

"I had to discipline my son and spank him the other day with a belt," Peterson told Bleacher Report.

Later, he said that he avoided using a switch "nine times out of ten".

Here is an excerpt from the story of Bleacher Report:

"I discipline my children in different ways," he says. "I did not let that change me."

Spankings are sometimes necessary, however, he insists, especially after recurrences. (The belt incident occurred after he had given his son four opportunities to correct his fault.) Peterson says that he finds it heartening to know that these lessons will help his children take more better decisions in the future. Corporal punishment has helped him become the man he is today, a man who loves his children. "My children love me, when they want something, they come to ask dad," he says. "They like to be around me."

In 2014, a grand jury indicted Peterson for careless injury or child neglect. Peterson subsequently entered into an Advocacy Agreement, avoiding prison sentences by not arguing against a charge of imprudent aggression. During the 2014 season, Peterson played only a game with the Vikings as a result of the affair. most of the year on the list of exemption before him got suspended for the rest of the season. He returned for the 2015 season after to be reinstated by the NFL in the offseason.

When the NFL suspended him for an indefinite period at the time, Commissioner Roger Goodell wrote: "You must engage in your counseling and rehabilitative efforts, take care of your children and not break more law or league policy. "

And Peterson promised never to use a switch again.

"I will never use a switch again," said Peterson. United States today. "There are different situations in which a child has to be disciplined until the expiry of the waiting period, to take out his toys, to have him take a nap.There are so many different ways of discipline your children. "

It is not clear if Peterson could face legal problems for his recent admission. It is also unclear whether the NFL will consider that Peterson's comments do not adequately "care for" his children. As Michael David Smith of Pro Football Talk has pointed out, the NFL could punish Peterson regardless of the legality of the situation. An arrest is not a prerequisite for a suspension.

Peterson spent 10 seasons with the Vikings, where he emerged as the best running back of his generation. However, since the start of the 2017 season, Peterson has bounced around the league, playing for New Orleans, Arizona and Washington. he landed with the Redskins just before the season after losing Derrius Guice at the end of the season. In Washington, he had a resurgence, totaling 891 yards and seven touchdowns in 10 games.

Peterson, 33, is ninth in all-time career at 12,999 rushing yards.