A Texas Judge is Under Fire for Beating Daughter
News Comment – November 3
A new viral video is bringing up the debate about discipline vs. abuse. A video posted by a Texas girl reveals her father, a Texas Family Law judge, beating her with a belt over a dozen times for illegally downloading content from the internet.
In the video secretly captured by his daughter, judge William Adams is shown whipping and screaming at his daughter, and his wife even takes part in the beating.
In this article by the Associated Press, Hillary Adams explains what’s going on in the video, and what her motive was behind posting it, nearly seven years after the video was recorded. “He’s supposed to be a judge who exercises fit judgment,” she said.
In less than a week of being available on Youtube, the video has amassed over 2 million views, and the judge has received threatening calls and messages because of it.
The most incredible thing about this story is that this man, who’s duty is to exercise good judgment, is the abuser in a sickening story. Another piece of info that makes this story amazing, is that the daughter suffers from a form of cerebral palsy.
There is a line between discipline and abuse, and one would think that a judge would be able to avoid crossing this line better than most. Taking into consideration that his daughter was handicapped, I don’t see how this judge shouldn’t get “the book” thrown at him in this instance.
November 7th, 2011 at 3:29 pm
The follow-up stories suggest he has no guilt, and will probably suffer no penalty. I would like to think this could only happen in Texas, but I’m not that optimistic.