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| Joseph Robert Patterson |
He is currently being held on a $750k bond.
Kelonland.com has details Patterson’s criminal history.
A check of Patterson’s criminal background in South Dakota reveals nine pages of trouble.
Court documents reveal the 27 year old has been arrested multiple times on various charges.
He was arrested in 2004 for violating a protection order, but that was later dropped by the prosecutor.
A 2012 arrest for aggravated assault was also dismissed by a prosecutor.
Patterson has served time in jail for Eluding officers in 2010.
He was also sentenced to five days in jail after pleading guilty to simple assault last year.
One of those incidents included assaulting a 3-year-old child.
Adrian Peterson’s son has passed away from injuries sustained in the assault.Patterson was indicted on several counts of simple assault involving the woman and her 3-year-old son in June of 2012.The woman took out a protection order against him in Lincoln County prior to his arrest, saying he had spanked her 3-year-old so hard for misbehaving in church that he needed ice for welts on his buttocks. When she got angry with him for it, she wrote, he made the children go to their rooms, pulled the shades, grabbed her by the throat and waved his fist in her face.He stopped when their infant son began to cry. She also wrote that he had behaved violently in the past.“He has threaten (sic) to kill me multiple times,” she wrote.The woman took out temporary protection orders against him twice in Minnehaha County prior to the birth of their son.Patterson was given a one-year jail term in each Lincoln County case, with all the time suspended on the condition he attend domestic violence counseling.
The 2-year-old son of NFL star Adrian Peterson died Friday in a South Dakota hospital after he was allegedly beaten by a man dating the boy's mother, the Sioux Falls Argus Leader reported.
A release from the Sioux City police department said a toddler died "from injuries sustained during the aggravated assault Wednesday." It said it was witholding the child's name but the Associated Press said a person with knowledge of the situation also had confirmed it was Peterson's son.
The police also said Joseph Robert Patterson had made a court appearance in the case and was being held on $750,000 cash bond.
Patterson, 27, was arrested Thursday night and is charged with aggravated assault and aggravated battery of an infant, TMZ reported. The arrest was made after police and paramedics were called to an apartment at 5:43 p.m. Wednesday and found the 2-year-old victim with injuries "consistent with abuse."
Speaking to reporters about an hour after the time of death -- although it was not immediately clear if he knew about it -- AP reported the Minnesota Vikings running back said he was certain he would play Sunday against Carolina.
"I'll be ready to roll, focused," Peterson said. "I will be playing Sunday, without a doubt."
Later Friday, after news of the boy's death spread, Peterson thanked his family, fans and even fans of other NFL teams for their support.
He tweeted: "The NFL is a fraternity of brothers and I am thankful for the tweets, phone calls and text messages from my fellow players."
Earlier Friday, Peterson was on the field for stretching with the Vikings. He left for the locker room briefly during special teams drills, which he doesn't participate in, and returned later.
"This is a private matter and I'm just going to ask you all to respect my privacy, and that's all I'm going to say about the situation," Peterson said after practice Friday.