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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v

What do ya think ?

[Edited 11/3/11 0:08am]

whoa..on one hand i think the daughter set her parents up with the camera. her sobs feel a little theatrically inclined, as in more for show than for real.

then again, imo, her parents should not be venting that much anger on her physically. they were enjoying things a bit too much, imo, especially dad. instead of beating and threatening their child those parents might consider simply confiscating the computer.

as to dad's fitness for duty as a judge......hmmm. imo, not. there is something fundamentally askew with someone acting out so much anger. hard to see how he could possibly preside over domestic abuse cases, for example, given his own history in this regard. sad.

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Agreed, she is 16!!!! Too old for that mess.... and that is a BEATING not a spanking.

Dude is using her to just get his aggressions out, and get a good work out in.

I use corporal punishment... but that mess goes wayyyyy too far. One or two wacks, that should be it. Spankings are not supposed to hurt.

If that doesn't satisfy the parent... then you should use a different method and leave the spanking/beating mess the hell alone.

It is too easy to allow your anger to guide your actions while spanking... this is why you NEVER spank a kid when you are pissed off.

If other methods have failed and she continue's do disobey, then she needs to have the "breaks beat off of her". My mom did it to the 6 of us and if you asked us, we are better men for it...

The dad asked her 'What happened to you? you used to be so obedient'.

What happened is she has parents that beat the shit out of her!

Nobody should treat ANYBODY like that.

For a judge, he doesn't display much temperance.

Does he really have to say fuck so much?

He's gonna get into trouble for this.

As much as I understand why he did it (I personally think that kids these days need to be punished more), I think he went a bit too far.

Oh the irony!!!

He handles child abuse cases and she has cerebral palsy.

GetAwayFromMe said:

Oh the irony!!!

He handles child abuse cases and she has cerebral palsy.

I'm going to make a bad lip syncing video out of this.

What I find bizarre about hitting a child with a weapon is that it teaches them you settle conflict with violence.

And the anger with which he displays throughout the video reinforces the idea that 'because I serve this or that role in your life, I can lash out at you when I am angry."

It's really disturbing to watch.

imago said:

GetAwayFromMe said:

Oh the irony!!!

He handles child abuse cases and she has cerebral palsy.

I'm going to make a bad lip syncing video out of this.

HAHAHA! It seems like you and I are the only ones who think those videos are hilarious.

OMG! that was TERRIBLE! yeah sure...she obviousley set them up to be videod but that really only means that this is nothing new! as a mom...I could NOT sit there an listen to that, the smacking sound of the belt the screams and pleas to stop...I'd be running in there saying you better stop now or I'm calling the Fucking police! but this mom?!?!? noooo, she comes in and takes the belt so she can give her a whack. It's THEM that are not coming to the realization that their daughter is growing up. I hope this fool looses his job over this...I hope he looses everything the dick!

I hope he sees this video and realizes what a fucking MONSTER he is.

GetAwayFromMe said:

imago said:

I'm going to make a bad lip syncing video out of this.

HAHAHA! It seems like you and I are the only ones who think those videos are hilarious.

That's ok with me, , because I laugh out loud like a crazy person when I watch those.

Shorty said:

OMG! that was TERRIBLE! yeah sure...she obviousley set them up to be videod but that really only means that this is nothing new! as a mom...I could NOT sit there an listen to that, the smacking sound of the belt the screams and pleas to stop...I'd be running in there saying you better stop now or I'm calling the Fucking police! but this mom?!?!? noooo, she comes in and takes the belt so she can give her a whack. It's THEM that are not coming to the realization that their daughter is growing up. I hope this fool looses his job over this...I hope he looses everything the dick!

I hope he sees this video and realizes what a fucking MONSTER he is.

I would NOT stay with nor in anyway support a partner that would hit a child for any reason ~ PERIOD ~ I would be the 1st to report them and press charges

Machaela said:

Shorty said:

OMG! that was TERRIBLE! yeah sure...she obviousley set them up to be videod but that really only means that this is nothing new! as a mom...I could NOT sit there an listen to that, the smacking sound of the belt the screams and pleas to stop...I'd be running in there saying you better stop now or I'm calling the Fucking police! but this mom?!?!? noooo, she comes in and takes the belt so she can give her a whack. It's THEM that are not coming to the realization that their daughter is growing up. I hope this fool looses his job over this...I hope he looses everything the dick!

I hope he sees this video and realizes what a fucking MONSTER he is.

I would NOT stay with nor in anyway support a partner that would hit a child for any reason ~ PERIOD ~ I would be the 1st to report them and press charges

I can see the difference between a spanking and a beating, and I don't think an occasional spanking is abuse BUT it's not for every kid and it sure enough ain't for me.

JoeyC said:

What do ya think ?

[Edited 11/3/11 0:08am]

THAT judge beat the piss out of his daughter, that is what I think! Lord have mercy.

If this was only a spanking on the buttock, then fair enough for that man being a responsible father AND head of the household. However, that beating that I watch on THAT video was definitely physical abuse because he was hit her all on the legs and upside her head. Be as it may, he should have been arrested.

paintedlady said:

Agreed, she is 16!!!! Too old for that mess.... and that is a BEATING not a spanking.

Dude is using her to just get his aggressions out, and get a good work out in.

I use corporal punishment... but that mess goes wayyyyy too far. One or two wacks, that should be it. Spankings are not supposed to hurt.

If that doesn't satisfy the parent... then you should use a different method and leave the spanking/beating mess the hell alone.

It is too easy to allow your anger to guide your actions while spanking... this is why you NEVER spank a kid when you are pissed off.

CORRECTION: The daughter is now a grown woman, age 23. The video was recorded in 2004 when she was age 16.

http://news.yahoo.com/dad...28201.html

PORTLAND, Texas (AP) — Hillary Adams says that until last week, only a couple of close friends knew about the savage beating she received seven years ago from her father, a Texas judge who handles child abuse cases.

Now the beating is on display to the world on YouTube thanks to a secret video she made, and her father, Aransas County Court-at-Law Judge William Adams, is the subject of a police investigation.

Hillary Adams, 23, says the outpouring of support and encouragement she's received since posting the 2004 video online last week is tempered by the sadness that it's her father lashing her 17 times with a belt and threatening to beat her "into submission." The 8-minute video had been watched nearly 2 million times by Thursday morning.

"I'm experiencing some regret because I just pulled the covers off my own father's misbehavior after so many people thought he was such a good person. ... But so many people are also telling me I did the right thing," she told The Associated Press outside her mother's home in the Gulf Coast town of Portland, near Corpus Christi.

"He's supposed to be a judge who exercises fit judgment," she said.

And she said the videoed attack was not a one-off. "It did happen regularly for a period of time," she told NBC's "Today" show on Thursday.

In the same interview, Hallie Adams blamed her ex-husband's bouts of violence on his "addiction," calling it a "family secret." She did not elaborate. Their 22-year marriage ended in 2007.

The judge did not return an AP reporter's call seeking comment early Thursday.

Police in Rockport, where the 51-year-old judge lives, opened an investigation Wednesday after receiving calls from several concerned citizens, Police Chief Tim Jayroe said.

William Adams has been receiving threatening phone calls and faxes at the courthouse since the video went online, Aransas County Sheriff Bill Mills said.

No one answered the door Wednesday at the judge's home, repeated calls to his office rang unanswered and his attorney, William Dudley, did not respond to phone messages seeking comment. A neighbor said she saw Adams and his girlfriend packing luggage, a briefcase and rifles into their truck.

Corpus Christi television station KZTV caught up with the judge while he was getting into his vehicle Wednesday, and he confirmed it was him in the video. But he said it "looks worse than it is" and that he doesn't expect to be disciplined.

"In my mind, I haven't done anything wrong other than discipline my child after she was caught stealing," Adams said. "And I did lose my temper, but I've since apologized."

When told of her father's comments, Hillary Adams said, "it's a shining perfect example of his personality and he believes he can do no wrong. ... He will cover up rather than admit to what he did and try to come clean."

She stressed that she did not post the video as revenge and does not want her father punished. Rather, she did it because she thinks it will force him to seek help, and because he has been harassing her and she thought posting the clip would make that stop.

"We need to reach out to victims and the abusers themselves to get people to realize what it actually is," she said.

Hillary, who was 16 at the time, said she secretly videotaped the beating in her bedroom because she "knew something was about to happen." She says her parents were angry at her for using her computer to download pirated content over the Internet.

In the clip's opening seconds, William Adams is heard telling Hillary's mother, "Go get the belt. The big one. I'm going to spank her now." With belt in hand, he turns off the light and tries forcing his daughter to bend over the bed to be beaten, but she refuses.

"Lay down or I'll spank you in your (expletive) face," Adams screams while he lashes her with sweeping blows across the legs, ignoring her wails and pleas for him to stop.

A few minutes into the video, Hillary's mother barks at her to "turn over like a 16-year-old and take it! Like a grown woman!" For about a minute, the ordeal appears to have ended after both parents leave the room and shut the door. But the judge then storms back into the room and the beating resumes.

Hallie Adams said she was "completely brainwashed and controlled" by her ex-husband.

"I did every single thing that he did," she told NBC. Hillary Adams said she is not angry at her mother.

Child advocates roundly condemned the beating as abuse. But investigators may decide that the judge's actions, while shocking, weren't criminal.

The lines between what's deemed child abuse and what's considered an acceptable level of discipline differ across the country and among various social groups, though the use of objects such as belts and sticks is usually seen as beyond any normal physical punishment, said David Finkelhor, a University of New Hampshire sociology professor who heads the school's Crimes against Children Research Center.

Adams, Aransas County's top judge, was elected in 2001 and has dealt with at least 349 family law cases in the past year alone, nearly 50 of which involved state caseworkers seeking determine whether parents were fit to raise their children.

Patrick Crimmins, a spokesman for the state Department of Family and Protective Services, said in an email that the agency is aware of the video and "will take the appropriate steps in this matter." He said the agency would have no further comment.

Shorty said:

Machaela said:

I would NOT stay with nor in anyway support a partner that would hit a child for any reason ~ PERIOD ~ I would be the 1st to report them and press charges

I can see the difference between a spanking and a beating, and I don't think an occasional spanking is abuse BUT it's not for every kid and it sure enough ain't for me.

Hitting a child ( to me ) is hitting a child ... ONLY the hitter ( IF self aware and self accountable enough ) knows the difference ~ a young child does not. If the child is old enough to understand the difference then there is NO reason to hit and ALL the reason to reason with them instead

to each their own though ... this much I know

Shorty said:

OMG! that was TERRIBLE! yeah sure...she obviousley set them up to be videod but that really only means that this is nothing new! as a mom...I could NOT sit there an listen to that, the smacking sound of the belt the screams and pleas to stop...I'd be running in there saying you better stop now or I'm calling the Fucking police! but this mom?!?!? noooo, she comes in and takes the belt so she can give her a whack. It's THEM that are not coming to the realization that their daughter is growing up. I hope this fool looses his job over this...I hope he looses everything the dick!

I hope he sees this video and realizes what a fucking MONSTER he is.

But the sad part about all of this is that even after watching the video, THIS man is still convince that he didn't do anything wrong 7 years ago.

paintedlady said:

Agreed, she is 16!!!! Too old for that mess.... and that is a BEATING not a spanking.

Dude is using her to just get his aggressions out, and get a good work out in.

I use corporal punishment... but that mess goes wayyyyy too far. One or two wacks, that should be it. Spankings are not supposed to hurt.

If that doesn't satisfy the parent... then you should use a different method and leave the spanking/beating mess the hell alone.

It is too easy to allow your anger to guide your actions while spanking... this is why you NEVER spank a kid when you are pissed off.

RicoN said:

paintedlady said:

Agreed, she is 16!!!! Too old for that mess.... and that is a BEATING not a spanking.

Dude is using her to just get his aggressions out, and get a good work out in.

I use corporal punishment... but that mess goes wayyyyy too far. One or two wacks, that should be it. Spankings are not supposed to hurt.

If that doesn't satisfy the parent... then you should use a different method and leave the spanking/beating mess the hell alone.

It is too easy to allow your anger to guide your actions while spanking... this is why you NEVER spank a kid when you are pissed off.

satisfaction in seeing he got his "point" across...

what you thought I was talking about?

TonyVanDam said:

paintedlady said:

Agreed, she is 16!!!! Too old for that mess.... and that is a BEATING not a spanking.

Dude is using her to just get his aggressions out, and get a good work out in.

I use corporal punishment... but that mess goes wayyyyy too far. One or two wacks, that should be it. Spankings are not supposed to hurt.

If that doesn't satisfy the parent... then you should use a different method and leave the spanking/beating mess the hell alone.

It is too easy to allow your anger to guide your actions while spanking... this is why you NEVER spank a kid when you are pissed off.

CORRECTION: The daughter is now a grown woman, age 23. The video was recorded in 2004 when she was age 16.

Oh yes, I was referring to her age at the time of the beating...

I hope he doesn't try to still beat her at 23!

Spare the rod, spoil the child. I've seen kids that I grew up get spanked with extension cords or switches. They turned out fine. My mother made me, and my siblings get our own switch from the bushes before she spanked our behinds. If that switch was too light, she got it for us . We turned out fine. That belt was light action.

angel345 said:

Spare the rod, spoil the child. I've seen kids that I grew up get spanked with extension cords or switches. They turned out fine. My mother made me, and my siblings get our own switch from the bushes before she spanked our behinds. If that switch was too light, she got it for us . We turned out fine. That belt was light action.

so will you beat your kids?

Just give me two minutes alone in a room with that guy.

shorttrini said:

If other methods have failed and she continue's do disobey, then she needs to have the "breaks beat off of her". My mom did it to the 6 of us and if you asked us, we are better men for it...

Are you kidding me? "we are better men for it..." Give me a break.

That angered displayed by the "judge" went beyond abuse. That asshole was pissed. And the mother? Take it like a "woman." What the fuck is this 1950?

There are kids being beaten far worse than what that girl received. what i saw was an aggressive spanking. I wouldn't call that a BEATING. You got kids out here being hit with bats, fists, ironing cords, chairs, and they're getting hit by more than one family member. Yes the man clearly has a temper but I'm more concerned with how he decided many of those family court issues he presided over. Was he the type to return a child to an abusive home or neglect to imprison a man for beating his wife? That's what I want to know.

angel345 said:

Spare the rod, spoil the child. I've seen kids that I grew up get Beat with extension cords or switches. They turned out fine. My mother made me, and my siblings get our own switch from the bushes before she spanked our behinds. If that switch was too light, she got it for us . We turned out fine. That belt was light action.

My step mother (my actual mom never hit me) had anger issues and she used to beat the hell out of

us (her kids and me)

with extension cords, belts, leather straps etc.

When she began, it was over "bad" things that we did, as we got older, it was over anything (knocking over a glass of juice etc).

I remember being ordered to bend over the table/bed; hands on the wall back turned etc.

If we moved it was only worse for us. She would also hit us in the face, drag us down the hallway

by our hair (the girls). She even pressed my step sisters hand against the stove top at one point.

Just because you turned out "fine" doesn't mean the action is ok, or that it should be condoned.

There is also nothing to prove that without the abuse you would have been any less "fine" then you are now.

I can say I am a happy person, but my step siblings have major problems. Not everyone

responds to abuse in the same way. I still have scars on my back and ass from that shit.

Flat out child abuse. I hope this motherfucker doesn't slip through the fingers of the law just because it happened in Texas. That is some seriously ugly behavior right there, especially from a judge.

breese said:

Flat out child abuse. I hope this motherfucker doesn't slip through the fingers of the law just because it happened in Texas. That is some seriously ugly behavior right there, especially from a judge.

He will slip through not only because its Texas but because it happened long ago and his daughter reportedly just wants him to get some anger management treatment.