UK TV view Texas Judge Beat 16-Year Old Disabled Daughter Repeatedly with a belt
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The mother of the disabled girl who posted a horrific video of her family judge father lashing her with a belt online, spoke for the first time today to reveal that she had been hiding her husband's 'secret of addiction for a long time'.
Hallie Adams appeared alongside her daughter Hillary in a TV interview in which they both described years of abuse in their 'dysfunctional' family and Hillary revealed her father had dared her to post the video online.
Judge William Adams, of Rockport in Aransas County, Texas, faces a police investigation and a judicial probe after his daughter uploaded to YouTube last week a secretly-filmed video - taken in 2004 when she was 16 - of him beating her with a belt 20 times.
The sheriff's department said in a statement today that the matter is 'under review' but had no further updates at this time.
According to Judge Burt Mills, the senior judge in the county to whom he reports, Adams was relieved of his court duties for the next two weeks and his cases passed to another judge while inquiries are carried out.
Neither the police nor the judge has responded to requests for additional comments from MailOnline.
Today her mother, who also appeared in the video, tried to explain why she too had hit her daughter and stood aside to let her husband attack.
She said: 'My answer to you and to the world is something that I've been hiding for a very long time is a family secret and that's addiction.'
When asked if she has an addiction, the mother said no but when asked if her ex-husband did, she told the interviewer:
'Yes sir.'
She offered no further explanation as to what the addiction might be.
Hallie Adams added: 'I lived in an environment of dysfunction and it steadily got worse. I did leave him... but he shamed me into going back.'
Hillary Adams, now 23, said she had forgiven her mother and did not regret making the video public. It has now been viewed more than a million times.
'We're very close now,' Hillary said. 'When I showed her the video, she started crying, hasn't stopped apologizing, and I forgive her because she knows everything that happened.'
Speaking to the Today show, she said: 'I told him I had the video... and he dared me to post it.'
Judge Adams, who presides mainly over cases involving children, remained unrepentant.
He said: 'In my mind I haven't done anything wrong other than discipline my child after she was caught stealing and I did lose my temper but I've since apologized. It looks worse than it is. There is a story and it will come out in due time.'
He is unlikely to face criminal charges after authorities said that the statute of limitations for causing bodily injury to a child is five years. The incident occurred seven years ago.
Hillary Adams was asked by the Today Show how she felt about the ordeal she had suffered now.
Miss Adams said: 'I've experience everything from crying about it to laughing. There are so many emotions and sometimes it's like reliving it and it sometimes it's like watching it from a completely third-person point of view. It's really impossible to put all that into words.
She added: 'It did happen regularly for a period of time, and I could tell because of the pattern that things were escalating again, so I set up my video camera on the dresser and covered the little red light with a scarf.
'About half an hour after I set the camera up this happened and it was amazing that I was able to capture such a thing.'
Miss Adams explained that she waited seven years to release the video because she feared for her safety and that of her mother and younger sister.
That was the video description and is not covered by copyright. The paragraphing is my attempt to make it readable. The family court judge's suspension from the bench was lifted. And he ran for the office again and won; see his smug look here:
http://www.aransascountytx.gov/courtatlaw/
IDK if he prevailed in this action he took against the mother, but this enrages me:
http://www.caller.com/news/2011/nov/14/judge-william-adams-fights-block-restraining-order/
"Conservative values" Texas judge beats daughter
Adams came to the bench in 1998 by defeating Democrat Robert Shellenberger with 67% of the vote. The east Texas county of Aransas has a population of around 23,000. According to the Aransas County Republican Party's website, its mission is to "promote conservative values." During his 1998 campaign, Adams pledged to institute youth guidance programs that would involve retirees. Calls and emails to Adams and to the chair and vice-chair of the Aransas County Republican Party were unreturned by the time of this publication.
http://www.peoplesworld.org/conservative-values-texas-judge-beats-daughter/
BTW. I've seen the full video and it's a lot worse than this. As I know people with her condition, they are generally fragile and not able to resist, making this doubly sick for me.
He said it was because she was 'stealing.' Fine, turn off the computer and destroy the downloaded material, don't go into a frenzy and abuse a person, not just physically, but verbally which leaves more scars.
These are people who talk trash about the first family, and use this kind of language. And these guys believe they should be in charge of all women and children in courts of law?
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