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The man accused of assault in the beating death of Adrian Peterson's son was charged for assaulting a 3-year-old boy in 2012, John Hult of the Argus Leader reports.
Joseph Patterson, 27, is facing aggravated assault on an infant and aggravated assault counts for the Oct. 9 incident involving the son of NFL star Adrian Peterson. Additional charges are possible, according to the Lincoln County Stateās Attorneyās Office.
In court on Friday, Lincoln County Stateās Attorney Tom Wollman asked a judge to revoke the terms of Pattersonās suspended sentence on two domestic abuse cases. The first involved an assault on the mother of his own child and another of her children, the other arose from his refusal to abide by a judgeās order that he have no contact with them.
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.
āHe has threaten (sic) to kill me multiple times,ā 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.
In court on Friday, Wollman said Patterson was a danger to the community and at risk to flee. The prosecutor asked for a $750,000 cash bond, a request granted by Judge Stuart Tiede.