Texas judge taped brutally beating daughter

[Sasha]

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Call To Action of the Day: Horrific footage of blatant child abuse was posted to Reddit earlier this evening by a person claiming to be the daughter of Arkansas County, Texas Court-at-Law judge William Adams (http://www.aransascountytx.gov/courtatlaw/).
Posting under the handle shoeofallcosmos (http://www.reddit.com/user/shoeofallcosmos?count=25&after=t1_c2wavg3) (which has since been hacked (http://twitter.com/#%21/shoeofallcosmos/status/131550623802994688)), the alleged abuse victim says the beating — which took place in 2004, when she was 16 — was being administered by Judge Adams and his wife as punishment for “using the internet.”
Judge Adams has reportedly made several (http://www.topix.com/forum/city/rockport-tx/TS7CCB70RHENQKER0) controversial (http://judge-william-adams.pissedconsumer.com/corrupt-judge-william-adams-aransas-20101208210581.html) rulings (http://cashadvancecomplaints.com/2011/09/30/judge-william-adams-a-jurist-ahead-of-his-time/) on the matter of child abuse, including, incidentally, that lack of video evidence is grounds for case dismissal.
“I was holding onto the video until the right time,” says Hillary (http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/lwurz/family_law_judge_beats_own_daughter_for_using_the/c2w99wc), “and after a barrage of harassment from my father over the phone, I snapped and finally uploaded it. Now I’m sorry I didn’t do it sooner.”
The outpouring of support and disgust was immediate, with many reaching out to media outlets and local authorities on Hillary’s behalf. ”I hope my father gets everything he deserves,” she writes (http://www.reddit.com/r/texas/comments/lx26a/lots_of_questions_but_this_video_xpost_from_rwtf/c2w9neg), “and loses everything he doesn’t.”
Should the video be removed from YouTube, the original file can be found here (http://www.multiupload.com/1R1IVPQG0X).
[reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/lwurz/family_law_judge_beats_own_daughter_for_using_the/).]

[A Revolutionary Tool]

How the fuck do you do that to your own kids, I don't get it. I only got hit by a belt one time, and got one hit and that was when I hit my dad in the balls.

These people are just creepy in the first place "Bend over the bed and take it like a grown woman!" Really what the hell is that? Never got spanked at 16, never see grown women get spanked. "You used to be an obedient good little girl, now you lie, cheat, and steal". Fucking weirdos I don't even know how to express myself, that just pisses me off.

[Nox]

I'd gladly kill both of those parents, their lives are worthless.

I doubt their kids would miss them.

[Rusty Shackleford]

his belt is his noose.

[Catmatic Leftist]

I'd gladly kill both of those parents, their lives are worthless.

I doubt their kids would miss them.

The wife was manipulated by the judge.

[Ravachol]

They fucker should be lynched, both for child abuse and for being a judge.

[Rusty Shackleford]

both very good reasons.

[Bronco]

I believe the daughter also had cerebral palsy, that clip disgusted me, good on her for having the guts to release it

[MattShizzle]

He even threatened to beat her on the FACE with it! And yeah, if you did that to a "grown woman" you'd certainly be put in prison.

[Leonid Brozhnev]

Scumbag disciplinarians like this tend to demand respect from their children yet show no respect in return. Hope this sick bastard dies cold and alone some day, he deserves nothing less than the misery he's caused his kids. To think this guy was/is a judge... wonder what kind of fucked up sentences he must have laid down. Hey, all in the name of justice, right? :rolleyes:

[MattShizzle]

More on him

Adams has ruled that you can never take the word of a child (http://www.topix.com/forum/city/rockport-tx/TS7CCB70RHENQKER0) in abuse cases. “According to Judge William Adams, all children are fantasizers and their testimony should just be ignored. Anyone who believes a child should be sanctioned. This really happened,” writes one angry blog commenter (http://achildsvoice-virginia.blogspot.com/2011/07/courthouse-forum.html)

[Iron Felix]

Haha, I bet someone will make him "bend over" in Prison.

[Bardo]

http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/317239_171212892969005_100002408867224_335413_5582 50786_n.jpg

[kid communist]

Oh my fucking God,I hate whoever that worthless fuck is!:cursing:I hate everyone who does that shit.If you beat your kids,I hope you die.

[Bardo]

I have a feeling this guy's career is over. Hopefully he also catches some charges, but I don't see it happening. :glare:

[La Comédie Noire]

Guy has skinny arms and a paunch like to see how he does against a 5'11, 215 pound adult male who works out.

[X5N]

I'm not watching the video.

What a sick fuck. What's worse is that some people think this kind of shit is acceptable, like people under the age of eighteen don't have civil rights.

Abusive assholes like this, along with Neo-Nazis, are one of few types of people who make me lose all sense of pacifism and rationality, and send me into a boiling rage.

[Salyut]

I really hope he gets whats coming to him.

Thats all I can say.

[MattShizzle]

heh - from CNN
"Meanwhile, Domino's Pizza in Rockport said it had received more than 20 online orders and nine phone orders for pizza to be delivered to the judge's home address."

[tir1944]

Why did they send him all those pizzas?:confused:

[GPDP]

Why did they send him all those pizzas?:confused:

It's a common trolling tool.

[X5N]

Why did they send him all those pizzas?:confused:

It's a common method of IRL trolling. Because when you order a pizza, they don't ask for verification that you live at the location. :D

[La Comédie Noire]

Why did they send him all those pizzas?:confused:

So he'd have to foot the bill.

[MattShizzle]

So he'd have to foot the bill.

I'm pretty sure he wouldn't but it's still a nuisance having the delivery people coming and having to explain it. I'd recommend only doing this with the big asshole chain corporations though and not sticking the guy who owns a smal place with it.

[Zukunftsmusik]

I watched the clip and I regret it. I feel sick. Fucking insane macho sick bastard. How the fuck can you do that to your daughter. Sick fuck.

I kinda understand Rorschac now.

[Manic Impressive]

spareth the rod and spoileth the child or something like that. I bet he did it because the good book told him to although I reckon they both enjoyed it fuckers

[Obs]

Why are you people shocked? This is exactly the kind of person you need to be to be a judge or a cop. Shit, I'd be surprised if not half of law enforcement people do this. The state sees this kind of sociopathy as an asset, not a flaw.

[Rafiq]

Disgusting fucker. This piece of shit should be murdered publicly. You don't understand how badly this pisses me off.

That fat old fuck thinks he's so powerful, doesn't he. Nothing is more beautiful than seeing scum like him removed of all power and humiliated, beaten and crushed like the pathetic little worm he is. A parasite. A fucking right wing bigot scum.

Sure, I sound a little too violent right now. But I'd destroy this piece of shit if I saw him in public.

[Rafiq]

Why are you people shocked? This is exactly the kind of person you need to be to be a judge or a cop. Shit, I'd be surprised if not half of law enforcement people do this. The state sees this kind of sociopathy as an asset, not a flaw.

It's true.

99% of the cops I know of do this.

This is why in America it is hard for abused Children to get help from the police. It's really disgusting, I know.

[Tim Cornelis]

Shit, I'd be surprised if not half of law enforcement people do this.

Close, 40% of police families experience domestic violence compared to 5-10% in non-police families.


Two studies have found that at least 40% of police officer families experience domestic violence, (1, 2) in contrast to 10% of families in the general population.(3) A third study of older and more experienced officers found a rate of 24% (4), indicating that domestic violence is 2-4 times more common among police families than American families in general. A police department that has domestic violence offenders among its ranks will not effectively serve and protect victims in the community.5, 6, 7, 8 Moreover, when officers know of domestic violence committed by their colleagues and seek to protect them by covering it up, they expose the department to civil liability.7

source (http://womenandpolicing.com/violenceFS.asp)

P.S. Cops are Bastards

[Demogorgon]

I watched that video with horror. I am not a violent person, but all I could think about was how much I would like to beat that man myself and see how he likes it. I was also horrified by the behaviour of the mother, though I suspect I should be more understanding there as odds are that she has taken a number of beatings herself and isn't in a position to do anything other than go along with him.

I wonder what will happen to him. I know that the law in Texas gives parents far too much leeway to beat their children, but surely that is illegal even there? Obviously I am against all physical disciplining of children, but that goes far beyond simple spanking.

[brigadista]

respect to the girl for exposing him -very brave - that was a serious assault and worse because he is her father - i hope she has got away from him - very angry here

[$lim_$weezy]

Any news on the legal action aimed at this piece of shit? As other posters have said, nothing makes me angrier than shit like this.

[Hexen]

It's true.

99% of the cops I know of do this.

This is why in America it is hard for abused Children to get help from the police. It's really disgusting, I know.

Further proof that the police's real purpose is to serve & protect the wealthy from the working classes and they bring the exact same brutal repression toward their own wives & sons/daughters. It also shows how and why that Domestic Violence is a trait in capitalist society in the first place.

It's also further proof that pigs and the entire law system cannot be trusted.

[Rafiq]

Let's order more pizza to this asshole's house.

Or better yet, let's call him. Come on.

[Agent Equality]

And this was all over playing a computer game? God this guy shouldn't even be allowed to live anymore after this.

[Tim Cornelis]

What I don't quite get, from personal experience, is why teenagers don't hit their parents back--which may sound weird.

I got into a fight with my father a few times and three times, in the moment, he seemed like he was going to hit me, and I raised my fist ready to punch the shit out of him. Now don't get me wrong, I love him and he has never abused me, but if he is going to hit me I will hit him back.

If I was that girl I would have roughed my father up.

And I have been thinking about this, and I know a lot of people will not understand my point of view, but I can't think of a reason why someone wouldn't snap and start throwing punches back.

Now, don't get me wrong I'm not saying people deserve being beaten because they don't fight back, it's just I would, and I don't quite understand why some wouldn't. Perhaps it's years of emotional abuse, but you would think at some point the victim is going to snap right?

[Decolonize The Left]

What I don't quite get, from personal experience, is why teenagers don't hit their parents back--which may sound weird.

There's hundreds of reasons why, most stemming from the fact that parents are figures of authority and have enormous amounts of leverage over a child's behavior ranging from simple punishments to involvement of state/governmental authorities.


I got into a fight with my father a few times and three times, in the moment, he seemed like he was going to hit me, and I raised my fist ready to punch the shit out of him. Now don't get me wrong, I love him and he has never abused me, but if he is going to hit me I will hit him back.

If I was that girl I would have roughed my father up.

Yeah, well, you're not a girl and your large father isn't beating you with a belt with the support of your fucking mother.


Now, don't get me wrong I'm not saying people deserve being beaten because they don't fight back, it's just I would, and I don't quite understand why some wouldn't. Perhaps it's years of emotional abuse, but you would think at some point the victim is going to snap right?

Yes, you would think. But the truth is that many of the feelings associated with child abuse get buried deep within the child due to enormous amounts of emotional trauma. They may not surface for years, and sometimes they never do. This young woman was enormously courageous to tape this and then release it.

As for that pig of a man... fucking piece of shit... ugh.

- August

[Manic Impressive]

This young woman was enormously courageous to tape this and then release it.
You could say what she did was braver than hitting him back or taking violent revenge. Firstly, taping an incident like that is incredibly risky, imagine his reaction if he found it if that was his reaction to playing a computer game. Also publicizing your abuse to literally everyone with a computer is pretty fucking brave, I don't think I could do it.

[MattShizzle]

Hopefully he goes to prison and gets put in with people he sent to prison and gets his ass beat much worse than he beat his daughter - on a daily basis.

[Misanthrope]

Fuckin' Texas.

[Misanthrope]

I'm pretty sure he wouldn't but it's still a nuisance having the delivery people coming and having to explain it. I'd recommend only doing this with the big asshole chain corporations though and not sticking the guy who owns a smal place with it.

either way it wastes the delivery people gas money and the workers who made the pizza go unpaid. Not to mention it doesn't do anything but create a "hassle". It's a mindless prank.

[the last donut of the night]

what the fuck went through his head i dont know but this man should have been executed, not troy davis

[Veovis]

I have absolutely NO sympathy for this man or anyone like him. Anything bad that happens to him he totally deserves. :mad:

[thefinalmarch]

Haha, I bet someone will make him "bend over" in Prison.
explain to me why rape is funny

[MattShizzle]

Apparently Anonymous is after this douche now.

[Fawkes]

Haha, I bet someone will make him "bend over" in Prison.

Rape isn't fucking funny.

[Fawkes]

Adams is a family law judge, who presides over child abuse cases, The AP reported.


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/texas-judge-william-adams-investigation-video-aparently-shows-beating-disabled-daughter-article-1.971307?localLinksEnabled=false

[Susurrus]

And now he admits it:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/02/justice/texas-video-beating/?hpt=ju_c2

[Bronco]

And now he admits it:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/02/justice/texas-video-beating/?hpt=ju_c2


I really don't want to get into this right now because as you can see my life's been made very difficult over this child."
Adams continued: "In my mind I have not done anything wrong other than discipline my child when she was caught stealing. I did lose my temper, I've apologized. It looks worse than it is."

So he's actually blaming her for his own abuse, and thinks he did nothing wrong, unbelievable.

[jake williams]

First, I know it should be obvious but if you could put the vid in spoiler tags with a warning, it's pretty graphic.

Second, this is why "parents' rights" is complete and utter horseshit. Period. End of story.

Third, the most that could happen to him through the Texan judicial system is a few months in protective custody - there isn't the remotest chance they'd send a judge to a normal prison. Realistically though, no criminal charges, and if there are criminal charges, suspended sentence.

Fourth, related to the third point, I'm generally really against both corporal punishment and vigilantism, but if people don't physically resist the motherfuckers who do shit like this - it'll keep happening. The state isn't going to do it, especially in Texas.

[Demogorgon]

And now he admits it:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/02/justice/texas-video-beating/?hpt=ju_c2
Talk about no remorse: "my life's been made very difficult over this child."

On another note, the video on the CNN site says something to me about society's skewed priorities right now. Showing a man effectively torturing his child both physically and mentally and her screaming in fear and pain is fine, but the word "fuck" needs to be censored out. Anyone who finds the swearing the most disturbing part of that video needs help.

[Hexen]

So he's actually blaming her for his own abuse, and thinks he did nothing wrong, unbelievable.

The Tu Quoque fallacy (aka "NO U") is a common trait within capitalist society. This is the exact same tactic that rapists & domestic abusers use against their victims to avoid taking responsibility for their own deeds (i.e. Victim Blaming) so they can do it again and again without the fear of punishment.

It's also the same tactic that children use to point fingers at some else screaming "s/he did it!, s/he did it!" for the exact same reason as above (ie tattle telling). Does anyone see a connection here?

[Demogorgon]

What I don't quite get, from personal experience, is why teenagers don't hit their parents back--which may sound weird.

I got into a fight with my father a few times and three times, in the moment, he seemed like he was going to hit me, and I raised my fist ready to punch the shit out of him. Now don't get me wrong, I love him and he has never abused me, but if he is going to hit me I will hit him back.

If I was that girl I would have roughed my father up.

And I have been thinking about this, and I know a lot of people will not understand my point of view, but I can't think of a reason why someone wouldn't snap and start throwing punches back.

Now, don't get me wrong I'm not saying people deserve being beaten because they don't fight back, it's just I would, and I don't quite understand why some wouldn't. Perhaps it's years of emotional abuse, but you would think at some point the victim is going to snap right?
The difficulty is the power dynamic that exists within a family like that. Fear can make people take a lot. While I watched that video, all I could think of was how dearly I wanted to give that man a taste of his own medicine, but for the poor girl taking that beating retaliation would be a terrifying prospect because of the savage response it would invite. You see the same thing with the behaviour of the mother, it looks absolutely disgusting, the way she joins in on the torture of her daughter, but as I suspected the information we have gotten makes it seem like she was a victim too and was cowed into that kind of behaviour by her husband. In other words, the man would have developed a frankly sickening level of control over his family and as he would have seen it was free to indulge his impulses.

[Hexen]

On another note, the video on the CNN site says something to me about society's skewed priorities right now. Showing a man effectively torturing his child both physically and mentally and her screaming in fear and pain is fine, but the word "fuck" needs to be censored out. Anyone who finds the swearing the most disturbing part of that video needs help.

Remember, the US is a warped puritan society where they worship violence but they shy away from anything natural & sexual related.

Get's to show how warlike the US really is.

[X5N]

This "obey or get beat" method of parenting should never be allowed in any truly free society. It's no wonder so many people grow up to blindly follow capitalist, statist authority, when they were raised to blindly obey all authority or face consequences.

[Kosakk]

Shite, couldn't watch the whole clip. Just too horrible to watch.

Why does some parents believe this is good parenting???

[PhoenixAsh]

This guy will probably NEVER serve on day in his life for this obvious and blatant case of abuse or have to face any serious consequences. He is elite and as such above the law. His wrongdoings will be forgiven and forgotten because he says he is sorry. If this was a regular guy he would have been in jail already.

He said it looks worse than it is. He is wrong....it looks exactly what it is: unacceptable physical and mental abuse...which show he is not fit to perform any sort of public function let alone one which requires him to precide over conflicts.

[MattShizzle]

On the stuff on facebook about this there are people saying things like he didn't beat her enough since she posted the video. Some are obvious trolls but others are serious. I doubt much will happen either. Texas is the state where many public schools still allow teachers and principals to beat teenage girls - even 18 year olds - with paddles to the point they have bruises that last for weeks.

[Commissar Rykov]

This doesn't surprise me at all the Texas Criminal Justice System is full of behavior like this towards witnesses, suspects, prisoners, etc. This kind of sociopathic and abusive behavior is not only condoned it is encouraged in the Texas Legal System.

[MattShizzle]

Well, he won't be charged they said now because the statute of limitations passed.

[Tim Cornelis]

Well, he won't be charged they said now because the statute of limitations passed.

That's only partially true, the video was recorded in 2004 so for that particular beating he can't be prosecuted, but the daughter said the abuse continued.

But honestly though, how would he be punished in a socialist society?

He is abusive towards his children and wife, but now none of them lives with him so he is not a danger to anyone. The justice system is not a system for revenge, but of rehabilitation. In a socialist society he might get "anger management/rehabilitation class", but nothing more than that.

Also, he is famous in all of the Western world and is seemingly bullied--punishment enough I hope.

[MattShizzle]

He still has partial custody of a younger daughter.

[MattShizzle]

I really hope people can still make his life a living hell
http://hphotos-iad1.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/313519_288814137807960_113544412001601_953340_7799 70310_n.jpg

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Can't even say what I want to say.

Ugh.

[∞]

This is more disturbing than anything I've seen on the internet. I've seen 1man1jar, 2girls1cup, 3guys1hammer. But this is just more painful for me.

Btw. This girl plays video game songs on her piano and does a pretty good job. Sounds like a cool person. :(

[Metacomet]

"Take it like a grown woman?" What!?

Why does it seem that this might be what him and his obedient wife there get up to in the bedroom.

[ClearlyChrist]

his belt is his noose.

I'd Be Happy To See It Used As Such, On Him.

[Princess Luna]

The Texas supreme court has suspended him
http://gamepolitics.com/2011/11/23/texas-family-court-judge-suspended-violence-caught-youtube-video


The Texas family court judge who was shown whipping his teenage daughter in a YouTube video has been suspended by the Texas Supreme Court. The seven and a half minute video was from a 2004 incident. It showed Judge William Adams viciously beating his daughter with a belt because she downloaded illegal music and games from the Internet. In rendering its decision, the court did not detail the reason for the order of suspension that was made public Tuesday. Adams, who was a court-at-law judge (family court) in Aransas County, Texas, received international criticism when his now-adult daughter (Hillary Adams) posted the video of him beating her with a belt when she was 16 on YouTube.

The video also showed the judge cursing and berating Hillary Adams and her mother, but mostly it showed him trying to administer a spanking with a belt in an unrelenting and violent fashion that can best be described as barbaric. Earlier this month, William Adams released a statement attempting to explain his side of the story.

"If the public must know, just prior to the YouTube upload, a concerned father shared with his 23-year-old daughter that he was unwilling to continue to work hard and be her primary source of financial support, if she was going to simply 'drop out,' and strive to achieve no more in life than to work part-time at a video game store," the judge said in a statement.

In a recent interview with CNN his daughter said that her father was in denial about the way he treated her, which was why she released the video.