Judge William Adams beats daughter for using the internet (Video)

Jiro said:
agreed. I believe in corporal punishment but this was too much and no device should ever be used such as belt and no corporal punishment should continue for as long as 7 minutes.

but I'd like to know all perspective sides.
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It is my **opinion** that 16 years old is much too old to be using corporal punishment.

Just watched the video - that is NOT corporal punishment - that is abuse.
 
I had the volume up all the way - I **think** the parents were swearing when they hit their daughter.

GEEZ :mad:

They were striking her out of anger - broke the very first rule of corporal punishment.


Holy Cow! Makes you wonder how many women reported abusive spouses in his court and he let the guys go as he didn't consider it abuse himself ....
 
Steinhauer said:
I had the volume up all the way - I **think** the parents were swearing when they hit their daughter.

GEEZ :mad:

They were striking her out of anger - broke the very first rule of corporal punishment.
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Yes they were according to the article.
 
Being a Judge he will probably get a coddly prision and some counseling. I
 
TXgolfer said:
Being a Judge he will probably get a coddly prision and some counseling. I
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I dunno about prison since statute of limitation may have already expired.
 
Someone posted his home phone number on YouTube just two minutes ago. :shock:
 
Texas judge beating video causing outrage

Judge William Adams (Aransas County Court)
(CBS/AP) PORTLAND, Texas - Police launched an investigation Wednesday into a Texas family law judge whose daughter posted a YouTube video of him savagely beating her with a belt during a tirade several years ago when she was a teenager.


The incident has resulted in a deluge of phone calls, emails and visits to the courthouse where Aransas County Court-at-Law Judge William Adams works, reports the American Bar Association Journal. Additionally, the ABA Journal reports that "Adams has agreed to take paid leave, his office has been closed and security has been enhanced at the courthouse. Jury duty has also been canceled for two days."


The nearly 8-minute video, which had been viewed more than 600,000 times since it was uploaded last week, shows Adams lashing his then-16-year-old daughter in the legs more than a dozen times and growing increasingly irate while she screams and refuses to turn over on a bed to be beaten.


"Lay down or I'll spank you in your (expletive) face," Adams screams. His daughter, Hillary, wails and pleads for him to stop.


Tim Jayroe, the police chief in William Adams' hometown of Rockport, a Gulf Coast community about 200 miles south of Houston, said Wednesday that he's asked the Texas Rangers to assist in investigating whether the video shows anything criminal happened. He said his department began investigating after receiving phone calls from several concerned people who watched the secretly recorded 2004 video.


No one answered the door at William Adams' home in Rockport on Wednesday, and repeated calls to his office rang unanswered. However, the 51-year-old judge told Corpus Christi television station KZTV on Wednesday that the video "looks worse than it is," and that he doesn't expect to be disciplined or punished because of it.


"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."

Reached at her mother's home in Portland, Texas, Hillary Adams told The Associated Press that her father became irate after she was caught illegally downloading media files she hadn't paid for. She said she feels some regret over posting the video because she said she doesn't want to see her father punished, but that she hopes it will spur him to seek help.


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


Aransas County Sheriff Bill Mills said that since the video was posted, William Adams has received threatening phone calls and faxes at the courthouse.


"People are upset, understandably upset. But emotions can't really run this thing," Mills said.


On Wednesday, a neighbor said she saw Adams packing up to leave with bags, a briefcase, clothes and rifles, which his girlfriend carried to the truck.

"He looked like he was here for a purpose," said Stephanie Perry, who lives across the street.

A secretary for the William Adams' attorney, William Dudley, said Wednesday that Dudley was unavailable to comment.


In the video, Adams is apparently unaware the camera is on when he enters the room, turns off the light and tries forcing his daughter onto the bed to be beaten.


"Go get the belt. The big one. I'm going to spank her now," Adams is heard saying in the clip's opening seconds.


A few minutes into the video, a woman appears and barks at the girl 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 adults leave the room and shut the door. But the judge then storms back into the room and the beating resumes.


Hillary Adams said she set up the camera because she knew "something was about to happen." Toward the end of the video, her father shouts that he plans to beat the girl "into submission" and rants about having a computer in the house and the problems it causes. The video ends with the adult woman telling her to leave the room and sleep on the sofa.


Elected in 2001, Adams draws an annual salary of $138,055 as Aransas County's top judge. He dealt with at least 349 family law cases in the past year, nearly 50 of which involved state caseworkers seeking to determine whether parents were fit to raise their children.


Texas' Department of Family and Protective Services is aware of the video and "will take the appropriate steps in this matter," agency spokesman Patrick Crimmins said in an email. 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 shows anger, but not in a way that would be considered unusual.


Children's advocates roundly condemned the beating as abuse. However, investigators may decide that the judge's actions, while shocking to many, 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."


Hillary Adams' parents divorced in 2007 after 22 years of marriage, according to court records. The divorce petition states that "the marriage has become insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities," but a counter-petition filed by Adams' ex-wife states that the divorce was filed under grounds of "mental cruelty."


Court records show that the couple had another daughter who was 6 at the time.
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Texas judge beating video causing outrage - CBS News

Sounds like the Mr. Tough Guy is running scarred. I hope they never allow him to see his daughters or sit on the bench again
 
Tim Jayroe, the police chief in William Adams' hometown of Rockport, a Gulf Coast community about 200 miles south of Houston, said Wednesday that he's asked the Texas Rangers to assist in investigating whether the video shows anything criminal happened.
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uh-oooooohhhhhhhhhhhh................... He's gonna get Chuck Norris'ed
 
Tim Jayroe, the police chief in William Adams' hometown of Rockport, a Gulf Coast community about 200 miles south of Houston, said Wednesday that he's asked the Texas Rangers to assist in investigating whether the video shows anything criminal happened.
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uh-oooooohhhhhhhhhhhh................... He's gonna get Chuck Norris'ed
 
Jiro said:
uh-oooooohhhhhhhhhhhh................... He's gonna get Chuck Norris'ed
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I was just thinking the Texas Rangers were all going to have a wager on how far they could drop kick him in the nads.
 
Jiro said:
you never know about these kids nowadays. they are really pushing their parents to their limit.
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So that doesn't give the father the right to beat the girl.. You made it sound like you blame the girl for her fathers action, by saying she trolled him. :shock:

From your other post I can see you do not condone his actions, Thank goodness. Either way... the father was abusive regardless of what the girl has done. The father obviously has done this more than once!!
 
Quoting Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Art. 12.01. FELONIES.
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Except as provided in Article 12.03, felony indictments may be presented within these limits, and not afterward:

(1) no limitation:
(A) murder and manslaughter;

(B) sexual assault, if during the investigation of the offense biological matter is collected and subjected to forensic DNA testing and the testing results show that the matter does not match the victim or any other person whose identity is readily ascertained; or

(C) an offense involving leaving the scene of an accident under Section 550.021, Transportation Code, if the accident resulted in the death of a person;

(2) ten years from the date of the commission of the offense:
(A) theft of any estate, real, personal or mixed, by an executor, administrator, guardian or trustee, with intent to defraud any creditor, heir, legatee, ward, distributee, beneficiary or settlor of a trust interested in such estate;

(B) theft by a public servant of government property over which he exercises control in his official capacity;

(C) forgery or the uttering, using or passing of forged instruments;

(D) injury to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual punishable as a felony of the first degree under Section 22.04, Penal Code;

(E) sexual assault, except as provided by Subdivision (1) or (5); or

(F) arson;

(3) seven years from the date of the commission of the offense:
(A) misapplication of fiduciary property or property of a financial institution;
(B) securing execution of document by deception; or

(C) a violation under Sections 162.403(22)-(39), Tax Code;

(4) five years from the date of the commission of the offense:
(A) theft, burglary, robbery;

(B) kidnapping;

(C) injury to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual that is not punishable as a felony of the first degree under Section 22.04, Penal Code;

(D) abandoning or endangering a child; or

(E) insurance fraud;

(5) ten years from the 18th birthday of the victim of the offense:
(A) indecency with a child under Section 21.11(a)(1) or (2), Penal Code; or

(B) except as provided by Subdivision (1), sexual assault under Section 22.011(a)(2), Penal Code, or aggravated sexual assault under Section 22.021(a)(1)(B), Penal Code; or (6) three years from the date of the commission of the offense: all other felonies.
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Went ahead and looked up the Texas laws. On Statue of limitation.
 
Babyblue said:
Went ahead and looked up the Texas laws. On Statue of limitation.
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The Legal experts are saying it will be almost impossible to get a felony charge out of this because after 7 years it is hard to prove the extent of the injury. At most he is looking at misdemeanor child endangerment. Not enough to even get him disbarred. :dunno:
 
TXgolfer said:
The Legal experts are saying it will be almost impossible to get a felony charge out of this because after 7 years it is hard to prove the extent of the injury. At most he is looking at misdemeanor child endangerment. Not enough to even get him disbarred. :dunno:
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Well, if not.... he is finished anyways. Thanks to the Media output. No one will respect him as Judge, or a person if that much.
 
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