AP won't do any time

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n_huffhines said:
What is enough punishment?

What would you rather do 3 months in jail or pay $40M? $10M? $1M?
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If it were you or me, we'd be bankrupted by fines and legal fees AND we'd get to serve time in prison. And then we'd get out and have to start life over jobless and broke. The worst case for Peterson -- even if he loses all his endorsements and never plays a down in the NFL again -- is that he gets to spend the rest of his life as a free and somewhat less fantastically rich man than he otherwise would have been.

Yes, Peterson is going to pay a significant penalty. But proportionally speaking, it's nothing compared to what what he'd face if he were a man of ordinary means. One standard for the rich and one for everyone else is the way the world works, but it isn't really justice.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
If it were you or me, we'd be bankrupted by fines and legal fees AND we'd get to serve time in prison. And then we'd get out and have to start life over jobless and broke. The worst case for Peterson -- even if he loses all his endorsements and never plays a down in the NFL again -- is that he gets to spend the rest of his life as a free and somewhat less fantastically rich man than he otherwise would have been.
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Not necessarily. A lot of child abuse goes unreported. It's likely his being high-profile had something to do with it getting reported and investigated in the first place.

I just saw a commercial that was talking about hundreds of child abuse reports that went uninvestigated last year here in AZ because of limited resources. The high profile cases get priority.

I agree celebrities get away with a lot, but I think regular ass folk do, too. We just tend to think it happens more with celebrities because we actually know about it when it happens.
 
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AP will probably be bankrupt regardless. 6 children from different mothers? That's not cheap, and does not speak well of his decision making.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Not necessarily. A lot of child abuse goes unreported. It's likely his being high-profile had something to do with it getting reported and investigated in the first place.

I just saw a commercial that was talking about hundreds of child abuse reports that went uninvestigated last year here in AZ because of limited resources. The high profile cases get priority.

I agree celebrities get away with a lot, but I think regular ass folk do, too. We just tend to think it happens more with celebrities because we actually know about it when it happens.
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He beat the crap out of a child he had with a woman he's not in a relationship with. She called the cops. Guess what? That happens to non-celebrities too.

Maybe being Adrian Peterson, Famous Athlete makes it somewhat more likely that the cops would follow up on it, but that's more than made up for by the way that he can effectively just write a big check and make it all go away. Regular people have to hope that the cops never notice them enough to get involved at all. Celebrities and the wealthy may get noticed more often, but their money almost always makes the problem go away when they do.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
He beat the crap out of a child he had with a woman he's not in a relationship with. She called the cops. Guess what? That happens to non-celebrities too.

Maybe being Adrian Peterson, Famous Athlete makes it somewhat more likely that the cops would follow up on it, but that's more than made up for by the way that he can effectively just write a big check and make it all go away. Regular people have to hope that the cops never notice them enough to get involved at all. Celebrities and the wealthy may get noticed more often, but their money almost always makes the problem go away when they do.
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Link?
 
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Yankee_Vol said:
Suspended for at least the rest of the season.
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I hate the NFL and how they handle these situations. Seem like the only consistency in punishment is how it much it correlates with the media coverage of it. Always seems to be one extreme or the other.
 
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Adrian Peterson, suspended Minnesota Vikings running back, apologizes for physical abuse of son - ESPN

"No one knows how I felt when I turned my child around after spanking him and seeing what I had left on his leg," Peterson said. "No one knows that Dad sat there and apologized to him, hugged him and told him that I didn't mean to do this to you and how sorry I was.

"I love my son. I love my kids, my family. Like I said after I took the misdemeanor plea, I take full responsibility for my actions. I regret the situation. I love my son more than any one of you could even imagine."
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Hopefully he means what he says.
 
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