A Texas family court judge and his wife are accused of beating their then-16-year old cerebral palsy-disabled daughter in her bedroom, with what appear to be leather belts. In a video that lasts over seven minutes, recorded by the daughter and uploaded to YouTube, the father, Aransas County Texas, Court-At-Law Judge William Adams, and his wife, can be seen apparently beating the daughter and lambasting her for downloading music off the Internet.
“It happened years ago… I apologized. It’s not as bad as it looks on tape,” Judge William Adams has said about the video, recorded in 2004. The daughter, Hillary Adams, says she recorded the video because she had been beaten before, and the beatings were escalating.
The video, below, is extremely graphic in its violence and difficult to watch. The father literally whips his daughter many times, without much emotion after the first few times, and then minutes later the child’s mother enters the room with a belt and continues the beating.
“My father’s harassment was getting really bad, so I decided to finally publish the video that I had been sitting on for seven years,” the daughter, Hillary, told the media.
The Daily Mail offers this report today:
The 23-year-old added that she decided to post the footage – which she’d been ‘holding onto until the right time’ – after receiving ‘a barrage of harassment’ in a phone call from her father.
From her Twitter account, she tweeted: ‘Please spread the word that my father needs professional help and not hatred. We can offer him the tools to be a better person.
‘It is my wish that people stop threatening my father and start offering professional help. That is what he really needs.’On the seven-minute long clip, the girl begs him to stop he can be heard snarling: ‘Bend over the f***ing bed.
‘Lay down or I’ll spank you in the F***ing face.’
Calls to Judge Adams’ office in Texas went unanswered. However his senior colleague County Judge C.H. ‘Burts’ Mills told MailOnline that Judge Adams was not currently at work and had not presided over any trials this week.
Judge Mills said he had seen the video footage and had ‘no comment’ to make on the film but that it had been turned over to the District Attorney and was being ‘reviewed’.
The police department confirmed it would be making an announcement shortly.
In a court judgement last October, Judge Adams said that a child’s statements ‘amounted to no evidence’ despite the fact his words had been confirmed by third party witnesses and recorded on video several times. The young person had also been interviewed by a child psychologist who believed the child.
According to Judge William Adams, all children are ‘fantasizers’ and their testimony should just be ignored.
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