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Sunday, November 06, 2011
Video Of Judge Beating Girl With Cerebral Palsy Sparks Outrage
Video Of Judge Beating Girl With Cerebral Palsy Sparks Outrage
A Texas judge is under investigation after a video of him beating his daughter who has cerebral palsy went viral on the internet.
The seven-minute video, which was recently posted by Hillary Adams, shows her father, Aransas County Court-at-Law Judge William Adams, striking the then-16-year-old with a belt repeatedly as punishment after the girl illegally downloaded music from the internet.
Now, 23, Hillary Adams says she posted the video seven years after the incident occurred because she feared the consequences for her, her mother and her sister if she took the video public while still living with her father.
In his position as a judge, Hillary Adams’ father does hear cases involving children. Since the video hit the Web, it’s had more than 1.6 million views on YouTube and outraged individuals from around the world have posted on Facebook and contacted local officials calling for action.
For his part, Judge Adams says he did nothing more than discipline his child, reports The Today Show.
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Judge Adams claims he did nothing wrong, that he was only disciplining his daughter. I’m an adult male over 6 feet. I’m pretty sure if I took a belt to the judge for seven minutes he’d have me arrested and prosecuted for aggravated assault and battery. If he’s not sure, I’d be happy to take seven minutes and prove it to him. Failure to prosecute him for this will only embolden others to abuse the disabled.
I don’t know what’s more grotesque…the actual video or knowing that this kind of thing went on and was sanctioned by the mother for many years. I hope this young woman gets far away from both her parents and gets some therapy, lest she repeat the pattern with her own kids. I’m starting to think they should show these videos in parenting classes. It might be a wake up call for people with anger issues to start to think about how they are going to handle conflicts with their kids.
I couldn’t agree more marklolson. This is horrifying. Take it like a woman? Is she serious? I really don’t think the fact that this child has CP has anything to do with the fact that she has clearly been abused by her parents and they need to be thrown in jail.
This goes beyond a “disability” issue. There must be something in Texas inciting the violent side of human nature: Perry’s prideful announcement of the number executed under his governorship (and the ensuing applause!), manipulation of evidence by prosecutors seeking the death penalty…etc.
I must say that I resent vmgillen’s comment singling out Texans for violent behavior. There are many of us here in Texas who abhor Perry’s push to execute first, ask questions later….and there are many more of us who find the judge’s behavior toward his daughter horrible and criminal! I sincerely doubt that these kinds of things happen only in Texas….they shouldn’t happen ANYWHERE, but to insinuate that Texans are more violent than people in other states is just plain WRONG! Betty Young
I agree with vmgillen!! There must be something about Texas. This is abuse, whether she has a disability or not. Marklolson said give him 7 minutes, I wouldn’t mind having half of those and using the belt on that creep myself!
siankolio: I apologize, and would like to amplify: this is not a question of “anyone can do it” – this is a question of electeds and public servants: people who are accountable to their constituents. Your state has been getting a lot of bad press as far as public officials and violence against fellow humans is concerned. Perhaps not enough people care enough to vote against this, or to hold their officials accountable? How long will it take to remove this judge? I hope the answer is: very little time. I also hope he isn’t cut loose with a lovely tax-payer paid severence package.
Judge Adams claims he did nothing wrong, that he was only disciplining his daughter. I’m an adult male over 6 feet. I’m pretty sure if I took a belt to the judge for seven minutes he’d have me arrested and prosecuted for aggravated assault and battery. If he’s not sure, I’d be happy to take seven minutes and prove it to him. Failure to prosecute him for this will only embolden others to abuse the disabled.
I don’t know what’s more grotesque…the actual video or knowing that this kind of thing went on and was sanctioned by the mother for many years. I hope this young woman gets far away from both her parents and gets some therapy, lest she repeat the pattern with her own kids.
I’m starting to think they should show these videos in parenting classes. It might be a wake up call for people with anger issues to start to think about how they are going to handle conflicts with their kids.
I couldn’t agree more marklolson. This is horrifying. Take it like a woman? Is she serious? I really don’t think the fact that this child has CP has anything to do with the fact that she has clearly been abused by her parents and they need to be thrown in jail.
This goes beyond a “disability” issue. There must be something in Texas inciting the violent side of human nature: Perry’s prideful announcement of the number executed under his governorship (and the ensuing applause!), manipulation of evidence by prosecutors seeking the death penalty…etc.
I must say that I resent vmgillen’s comment singling out Texans for violent behavior. There are many of us here in Texas who abhor Perry’s push to execute first, ask questions later….and there are many more of us who find the judge’s behavior toward his daughter horrible and criminal! I sincerely doubt that these kinds of things happen only in Texas….they shouldn’t happen ANYWHERE, but to insinuate that Texans are more violent than people in other states is just plain WRONG! Betty Young
I agree with vmgillen!! There must be something about Texas. This is abuse, whether she has a disability or not. Marklolson said give him 7 minutes, I wouldn’t mind having half of those and using the belt on that creep myself!
siankolio: I apologize, and would like to amplify: this is not a question of “anyone can do it” – this is a question of electeds and public servants: people who are accountable to their constituents. Your state has been getting a lot of bad press as far as public officials and violence against fellow humans is concerned. Perhaps not enough people care enough to vote against this, or to hold their officials accountable? How long will it take to remove this judge? I hope the answer is: very little time. I also hope he isn’t cut loose with a lovely tax-payer paid severence package.