This is crazy that both parents have separately been investigated for child abuse. Dwight Howard’s case was closed and reopened, Royce Reed’s case was closed, but here are the details.
The Florida Dept. of Children and Families (DCF) got a call in February from 6-year-old Braylon’s school, informing authorities the boy had been belted on the back of his neck and leg for using “potty words.”
According to docs, baby mama Royce Reed fessed up and said she did indeed belt the boy because he “dropped the f-bomb” in school. Authorities checked out the kid and there were no obvious marks … she told them she only hit him once with a child fabric belt. The case was closed out, but school officials spoke with Reed and accused her of using excessive force on the child.
Once again here is where that gray area comes in. I know plenty of parents who will whip their kids for cursing in school, some parents at least back in the day would do it at the school. That isn’t allowed these days, but many would say that is a punishable offense. The question is always how severe was the beating and did it cross that Adrian Peterson line.
In this case, the authorities didn’t think so.