Judge William Adams Beats Daughter

Judge William Adams beats daughter for using the internet.
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I'll take my belt off and wrap it round his face

In Sweden he'd be in handcuffs.

His career and reputation are pretty much *** now.

I made it to 3 minutes. That **** is more difficult to watch than 2 birds one cup -.-

o.O she has cerebral palsy too? Someone lynch this ***

Who is William Adams?

I can't watch more than a few minutes, either. Nauseating. I thought parents were supposed to feel protective and loving of their children. :-(

False statement is false, she didn't just use the internet she pirated music and movies that weren't even out yet on DVD/Blue-ray... and her parents found out. He could have been liable for fines or jail time as the account holder... and being that he is a judge of all things obviously this makes "daddy" slightly unhappy.

He took it way too far by hitting her THAT damn many times though... and on the legs at that...

I don't think there is anything wrong with a good ole fashioned *** whooping once in awhile but yeah... went way too far. I think the mom did a DECENT job by trying to tone it down and end it quick by making it a little less heated... but he came back... again... really?

In the end it's wrong how hard/often/places he smacked her with the belt... but i'm all for this type of punishment in the end.

Yeah, that was difficult. That was so horrible.


**edit** If she really was pirating music/movies and got caught, I can see where some of it came from. Still though, he went much too far..

If he has to resort to this kind of treatment for his sixteen year old daughter, then there are more underlying problems than just his excessive discipline methods.

Good thing it wasn't William Adama

Have to agree there, I'm all for spanking when the situation warrants it, but that is abuse, plain and simple.

People are sick.

and this guy is a JUDGE?!?! him and his wife both need to be dragged out into the street and beaten with w/e is handy, unreal.

I know many people, some of my relatives included, would agree with you. I personally believe that a child can be sufficiently punished by just a smack or two on the *** with your bare hand. The fact that he used a belt was abusive, in my opinion, because no one ever needs to use a weapon on a child. He was definitely using it as a weapon. The fact that he hit her several times, even after she was crying and begging him to stop, was nauseating. This man was cruel and merciless. It's probably wrong of me to hope that someday someone is just as cruel and merciless to him as he was to this child, but I do hope that. :-(

My bad. :X Just copied the video title my man. :D

thanks for the clarification though, I'll update it.

My mother took a belt to me maybe TWICE ever.. when i was a kid.. i was only hit like twice each time and trust me it was enough to scare me into not doing much wrong during the 8-12 age range.

This is not a good case by any means as like i said he comes back and does it way too many times and way too hard.



The best part is when nicepeter (guy from epic rap battles) does the hook lol.

Also, as an aside, this occurred seven years ago, and went viral via Reddit after his daughter posted the video on youtube.

Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2011/11/02/on-judge-william-adams-beating-his-daughter-and-internet-revenge/

You should have checked the description.

**edit** I saw the description, lol.

Sorry, been here or there, meant to update it a bit more but...no real excuse, I'll change it to this.

I was never hit even a single time by my parents and I never got myself in trouble. Violence serves no purpose. A parent should inject trust, not fear onto his child.

This dude is a piece of ***, I don't think things should go unpunished, but whipping the crap out of her like a mule isn't going to do any justice... It was pretty bad before the woman smacked her and then he came BACK to beat/yell at her more?

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Hillary Adams posted a video she made in 2004 of her father beating her with a belt

They say revenge is best served cold. In the case of Hillary Adams, a Texas woman who recently posted a very disturbing video of her father violently beating her, the revenge nearly has freezer burn.

The video was made in 2004. She posted it last week on YouTube explaining that her father “took a belt to his own teenage daughter as punishment for using the internet to acquire music and games that were unavailable for legal purchase at the time.” Her father is not just your average Texan. William Adams is a public figure, an Aransas County Court-at-Law judge. The video went viral after she posted it to Reddit, a site where users would be especially sympathetic to a judge’s corporal punishment for illegal downloading. Redditors launched a vigilante campaign, posting numbers for local law enforcement and media outlets (as well as pranking the judge by ordering pizzas to his home). From there, the video gained national attention within a day, from blogs as well as local media in Texas. The sheriff’s office is now launching an investigation.

Did I mention that the video is seven years old? Why post it now?

Well, Judge William Adams holds an elected office, and his daughter would prefer he not hold it. “Judge William Adams is not fit to be anywhere near the law system if he can’t even exercise fit judgement as a parent himself,” she writes in the description of her video. “Do not allow this man to ever be re-elected again.”

A viral video of your beating your daughter with a belt has to be even worse for an office-holder than naked photos of what’s below that belt. Someone has already created a “Don’t Re-Elect Judge William Adams” Facebook page, which has attracted thousands of fans. Sorry, Facebookers. Aransas County does have an election coming up next week, but Adams’s term is not up this time around. He’s not up for re-election until three years from now, the county clerk’s office tells me. Of course, the public attention to this could well lead to his stepping down, though he tells a local news affiliate that the incident “happened years ago,” that he “apologized,” and that “it’s not as bad as it looks on tape.”

It does look pretty bad, especially to someone who grew up in a household that frowned even on spanking. (The video makes me wonder if other children who suffer violence at home could use the tool of public shame to help them, or if this one caught on solely because it involved a public figure.)

The power of video here is fairly incredible. Had Hillary Adams, now in her 20s, suddenly stepped forward and said her father beat her as a child, it likely wouldn’t get much traction. But the video places the incident in the here and now, almost making the seven years that have elapsed insignificant. Adams surely couldn’t have imagined that a punishment of his daughter in the privacy of his home could come back to haunt him professionally years later.

Update: Adams is now tweeting that she feels “some regret” for publishing the video and ruining her father.

The delay in publishing the video reminded me of a story I wrote about a year ago that involved a Harvard Law student who discussed in a private e-mail the possibility that intelligence is linked to genetics, and thus race. Her then-friend saved that email (as most of us do), and a year later, when their friendship soured, sent the email out to a few people, including a member of Harvard’s Black Student Association. As with Hillary Adams, the Harvard frenemy knew the right audience to take her smoking gun to in order to ensure it get widespread attention. The e-mail very quickly went viral, and the law student’s name will probably be linked to “racist” in Google search results for the rest of her life.

Of course, as Herman Cain could well attest, it’s always been the case for high-profile people such as presidential candidates to have things from their past come back to haunt them, even without any digital evidence. But that’s because these folks are at the center of tons of media attention. Now, even if you’re not a media figure, the past can come back at you fast and furious if there’s a video, recording, or email that can easily be passed around online.

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2011/11/02/on-judge-william-adams-beating-his-daughter-and-internet-revenge/

Link to article.

Without condemning or condoning, I agree with physical discipline when they are beyond words or control. But frankly that should apply to children that are more or less pubescent and naive enough to justify their tantrums or lack of obedience.

Then again, I have to cut the daughter some slack since she was born with cerebral palsy. Something he nor his wife clearly took into consideration.

So say we all!

This is pretty much my thoughts on the matter.

I'm all for physical punishment, I'm a father and despite my short temper with the average person, I go to great lengths and tolerate A LOT my son does without raising my voice or a hand.. But sometimes "you need to stop" or "you're going to sit here" isn't enough. (And if fellow parents want to look down their nose at me for this, I really have no problem with that, let them.. It only bothers me when someone like Jet runs in and criticizes my parenting, if you weren't/aren't a parent, an adult fully responsible for a child, then come back when you have been.) Sometimes a couple of pops on the *** puts things in perspective in a way words never would have.

I draw the line at anything other than an open hand though.. If you have to use 'weapons' then either the spanking isn't for them (it's just you letting out your frustration like a drunk would do in a bar fight, kinda after the other person has already been knocked down/out) or spanking simply isn't working and it's time to rethink discipline.