Here's a look at some of what's being written about the Adrian Peterson child injury case on the web:
Writing on the Sports Illustrated web site, SI.com, attorney Mitchell McCann explains the legal process that could be ahead and how the National Football League may react.
Of the legal process, McCann writes:
"In cases involving parents charged with excessive beatings of their children, parents typically argue that their style of discipline was reasonable under the circumstances. They also emphasize that their methods reflected not anger or short temper, but a strategic desire to properly train their children. Peterson's text messages arguably signal a desire to educate a misbehaving child rather than to sadistically inflict physical harm."
About the NFL, he adds that the league's new domestic violence policy may not apply, as written, because the policy as (commissioner Roger) Goodell has expressed it could be argued by Peterson's legal team that it "only contemplates NFL players hitting their spouses or partners, not their children." But McCann also points out that Goodell could punish Peterson under the league's personal conduct policy -- and then the commissioner would also be the one hearing the appeal.
You can read McCann's entire article here.
On Yahoo! Sports, Vikings management was lauded for quickly making Peterson inactive for Sunday's game, and said the Baltimore Ravens should have followed a similar approach with Ray Rice.
Eric Adelson wrote: "This entire wretched week has been given over to whether NFL teams should let the legal process take its course in a case of an arrest for abuse. Yes, there are times when the evidence is not enough to override due process. But domestic violence is not often fabricated. And on occasion the details of a police report are so graphic and so heinous that a decision needs to be made for the benefit of the league and the general public. This is not a football decision or a business decision, but a moral decision. The Vikings made that decision quickly and correctly."
