Judge caught beating daughter! Disgusting.

Winter Woman

Well-Known Member
Wow, I can't even imagine being beat. My parents never did anything even close to this.

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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 for 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 more than 1 million times by early Thursday.

“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.

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.

“People are upset, understandably upset. But emotions can’t really run this thing,” 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, as if to leave for a while.

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 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, which is what I really want him to do.”

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.

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 in various parts of 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.

Jim Hopper, a clinical instructor in psychology at Harvard Medical School and a child abuse expert, said there is no doubt that the judge’s actions crossed the line.

“This is an act of brutal violence,” Hopper said. “To beat someone into submission is not discipline. To beat a child into submission makes it harder for that child to take in rules and the values that the parent believes they are imposing on the child.”

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.

Steve Fischer, a longtime attorney in Rockport, called Adams fair and a “better than average” judge. He said Adams sometimes showed anger, but not in a way that would be considered unusual.

Hillary, whose parents divorced in 2007 after 22 years of marriage, said she waited this long to post the video because she didn’t know what would have happened to her had she posted it just after it happened.

“If this had blown up when I was a minor who knows where I would be. I wouldn’t be able to escape.”

While Hillary is close with her mother, she suspects the video will only further alienate her from her father’s side of the family. Still, she says she believes it was the right thing to do.

“I’m very relieved that these things have been brought to light and not because I want to see my father burn or anything like that. That’s a hideous way of thinking and I don’t want to inflict that upon him,” she said. “I cannot stress enough — I cannot repeat myself enough, that he just needs help.”
 

SocataSmoker

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I was on Reddit when the daughter posted the video for the first time...

Everyone was telling her to hold on, this is gonna blow up... sure enough within 12 hours it was news around the world.

I'm glad she finally came out with this as she has a younger sister whom many are worried about.
 

Winter Woman

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Hadn't even thought of other children at home. I'm glad she came out too. I wish her well. Her father deserves what he gets. imo
 

Dick Moser

Active Member
he totally even said "i should continue to BEAT YOU" i was shown some TOUGH love as a kid, but it was always done out of love this seems like a man who cant handle not being in control. AND HE IS THEY TYPE OF MAN WHO GETS TO PASS JUDGMENT ON US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Beansly

RIU Bulldog
I got beatings like that as a child and I turned out just fine. I don't how you'll all feel about this but I thinks she WAY out of line for putting their family issues online for the world to see. There are other ways to deal with it if bothered her that much. She may be totally in the right, but you don't put your family business on blast like that.
 

jonblaze420

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There's always going to be people responding on forums about this saying "I got beat like that and I turned out fine."

That's not normal, and it's not conducive to a healthy mental state of mind even as you grow older. That man is psychotic.
 

SocataSmoker

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I got beatings like that as a child and I turned out just fine. I don't how you'll all feel about this but I thinks she WAY out of line for putting their family issues online for the world to see. There are other ways to deal with it if bothered her that much. She may be totally in the right, but you don't put your family business on blast like that.

You do if they are an influential person... especially having a powerful effect on the future of others (he is a judge).

If that was my father... I'd have ceased contact. I was physically punished maybe 3 times at most growing up, and nothing to the level of what was demonstrated here... I grew up fine, am an Eagle Scout, and an accomplished pilot... respectful of all humans and all living/non-living things on this planet, proof that physical violence is not needed to teach your children right from wrong.

I'd say nurturing a child to become an accomplished adult is all about the closeness one shares with their child, my father and my mother are and will always be close to me, we did many many things together and still do to this day.


I can only hope I'll do as good with my children.
 

ohmy

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shit that was nothing.I use to get my ass beat bad and if i moved I would get hit all over. Try going to a christian school that would paddle in front of the hole school the pices of shit.....bible says spair the rod poil the child so they would paddle ya and make you feel like a p.o.s
 

Capt. Stickyfingers

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I got beatings like that as a child and I turned out just fine. I don't how you'll all feel about this but I thinks she WAY out of line for putting their family issues online for the world to see. There are other ways to deal with it if bothered her that much. She may be totally in the right, but you don't put your family business on blast like that.
If my dad beat me like that, when I got older I would have killed him, no joke 100% for real. This girl was 16, and she was probably whipped like that more than just that one time. And again she is a GIRL. Everyone thinks they turned out fine, even the ones with the worst demons.
 

Beansly

RIU Bulldog
You do if they are an influential person... especially having a powerful effect on the future of others (he is a judge).

If that was my father... I'd have ceased contact. I was physically punished maybe 3 times at most growing up, and nothing to the level of what was demonstrated here... I grew up fine, am an Eagle Scout, and an accomplished pilot... respectful of all humans and all living/non-living things on this planet, proof that physical violence is not needed to teach your children right from wrong.

I'd say nurturing a child to become an accomplished adult is all about the closeness one shares with their child, my father and my mother are and will always be close to me, we did many many things together and still do to this day.


I can only hope I'll do as good with my children.
Idk know man, it doesn't seem right to take care of it that way. I don't think that the fact that he beats his kids affect the way a person makes a decision. I'd be much more interested to learn if the person's a racist or if they steal from poor people than whether they beat their kids.
People think I'm harsh, but I shed a tear watching that video, remembering my childhood and some of the beatings I took, but would I want my parents forever defamed for it? God no.
It's really nobody's business except the people that were in that room. That fact that we're talking about it ids sickeningly modern imo.
 

jonblaze420

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It's no one's business when a girl who is handicapped and can't defend herself is beat like that?

If I see that I'll make it my business, because I care about innocent people.
 

Budologist420

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If my dad beat me like that, when I got older I would have killed him, no joke 100% for real. This girl was 16, and she was probably whipped like that more than just that one time. And again she is a GIRL. Everyone thinks they turned out fine, even the ones with the worst demons.
I agree no GIRL especially that age should be getting beat lke that. hopefully he goes to prison and he can play the part of the girl and some big mofo will be his daddy.
 

Beansly

RIU Bulldog
I agree no GIRL especially that age should be getting beat lke that. hopefully he goes to prison and he can play the part of the girl and some big nigger will be his daddy.
While I don't agree with your choice of words I still say 'Right On!'
 

ohmy

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some kids that do not get beat should be beat and maybe they would turn out better.Thank god I do not have kids because if they fucked up I would beat them
 

Budologist420

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Ya but being beat and being abused is two different things. If you hit someone for doing something wrong thats a different story but if your sitting their releasing all your built up anger on a young girl like that is abuse. Abuse shouldn't be allowed in any situation.

I was hit as a kid but only if i did something wrong. Abuse is completely different. Its more emotional like the person is trying to degrade you or make you feel like your powerless.
 

Capt. Stickyfingers

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some kids that do not get beat should be beat and maybe they would turn out better.Thank god I do not have kids because if they fucked up I would beat them
That's whats sad about human behavior. Someone gets beat as a child most likely will beat their own kids. Someone gets sexually abused as a kid most likely will be completely screwed up mentally/sexually and then might possibly abuse a child.
 
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