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Report Details Peterson Sex Party At Eden Prairie Hotel in 2011

Police report states party was paid for on credit card for Peterson's charity, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.

Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson held a sex party at an Eden Prairie hotel in 2011 that included an underage relative and was paid for on his charity’s credit card, according to a report.

The party included Peterson, two male relatives and four women, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported. The Star Tribune story is in-part based on a 38-page police report. One of the women at the party later accused Peterson of rape. No charges were filed.

The newspaper story states that police were told by one of Peterson’s relatives who attended the party, that the room was charged on a credit card for Peterson’s charity, Peterson’s All Day.

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The entire Star Tribune report, which also delves further into the activities of Peterson’s charity, can be read here.

Peterson has been suspended from the Vikings since being indicted on child abuse charges in September. Peterson, who has six children by six different women, is accused of hitting his four-year-old son with a flexible tree branch commonly known as a “switch.”

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Peterson later issued a statement, asserting that he only was attempting to discipline the child. Prosecutors maintain the beating crossed the line into abuse noting injuries the child received.

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