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Minnesota Vikings Star Adrian Peterson Indicted For Alleged Child Abuse

HOUSTON (CBS SF) -- Minnesota Vikings star player Adrian Peterson has been indicted by a grand jury charging him with reckless or negligent injury to a child, according to published reports.

CBS Houston reported law enforcement sources said Peterson admitted that he did "whoop" his four-year-old child in May while the boy was visiting him in Montgomery County, Texas.

The police report said after the boy mother took him to a doctor, he told the doctor Peterson had hit him with a branch from a tree. Photos which accompanied the police report showed the child with bruises and open wounds.

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