Patterson is being charged with Aggravated battery of an infant and Aggravated Assault. 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.
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.
Adrian Peterson’s son has passed away from injuries sustained in the assault.