By: Amanda Anderson-Niles
The other day it was reported the investigation over child abuse accusations made by Royce Reed had been closed, although a doctor reportedly sided with Royce and felt Dwight Howard went overboard in beating their son Braylon with a belt.
Although the state of Florida closed the case and cleared the athlete of any wrongdoing, Georgia is now investigating the NBA star.
TMZ writes:
TMZ Sports broke the story … the Dept. of Children and Families in Florida (DCF) determined there wasn’t enough evidence of child abuse to go forward, but it turns out the incident occurred in Georgia. Howard admits he hit his kid with a belt, but says he didn’t know it was wrong because he was hit as a kid.
Law enforcement tells us … Georgia cops asked Florida for the file, but the DCF dragged its feet and did not cooperate. So it turned into a cold case until Monday, after Cobb County detectives saw the TMZ Sports story summarizing a doctor’s findings that Howard committed child abuse.
A Georgia law enforcement source tells TMZ … “People who were not so forthcoming before today [Monday] have been.” The source adds detectives did several one-on-one interviews Monday and say the case “has now been raised to top of the list.”
Oh sookie sookie now.
I’m sure the NBA will bail him out soon.
I just don’t understand why this fool hit the child with the belt buckle. That was too much.
Exactly.
I hope they do a thorough investigation on this incident.
This will quietly go away like the whole teenage girl thing did.
I’m convinced Dwight is an idiot. #ThatIsAll
His lawyer is cocky and thinks Dwight will get off.
This has Dwayne Wade version 2 written all over it. Rich athlete, the best lawyers, sympathetic authorities who don’t want their fave to get in trouble. Possibly crazy, and not quite truthful but incredibly tenacious baby mama!
This should be interesting!!!!
Well if Adrian Peterson got in trouble, Dwight needs to be held responsible as well.
This!!
Exactly!!!!!!
Something about this isn’t sitting well with me. It’ll be moved to the top of the list? But why now? How were those who were uncooperative allowed to be such up until now? Is expediting the case at this point out of concern for the child or law enforcement wanting to jump on the bandwagon of high profile athlete cases? This is ridiculous. There’s no way this should have “gone cold” until a report from TMZ surfaced. They got a copy of the physician’s report and I’m sure the police department could have as well.
People don’t know how to spank their kids anymore. You don’t use the damn belt buckle. And the nerve of him trying to make Royce out to be a bad mother when he’s as violent and negligent as he is.
Royce ain’t no saint but I’m starting to believe her. It’s not like Dwight hasn’t already proven he lacks good judgment about most things. Is he still flying teenage girls across the country to meet him in hotels?
I think it’s disturbing how these grown and very big men are hurting their young sons. Find a better way to discipline them.