Quote:Police in Rockport, Texas, have started an investigation after the alarming circulation of a video depicting the brutal abuse of a teenager with disabilities that was uploaded onto Reddit and YouTube.
Authorities are checking the veracity of the video and trying to determine whether a local judge was involved, they reported on Wednesday.
"We were made aware of the video last night and it has been assigned to our criminal investigation division. An investigation is ongoing at this time," Rockport Police Chief Tim Jayroe told The Huffington Post.
The seven-and-a-half minute clip, which has nearly a half-million views, shows a teenage girl being brutally beaten with belts by an older male and female. According to a description of the clip, the girl has ataxic cerebral palsy and is being punished for "using the Internet to acquire music and games that were unavailable for legal purchase" at the time.
"Bend over the f--king bed, dammit," the man says as he repeatedly beats the girl about her body with a belt. "Lay down or I'll spank your f--king face. ... I have to f--king beat you into submission. You want to put some more computer games on? You want some more? F--king computer... See all the problems they cause?"
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The video recently surfaced on video-sharing websites, triggering enormous outrage from viewers.
"This man is a monster and should be put in prison. He clearly enjoys whipping this girl," one viewer commented.
Another said, "These parents are a f--king waste of space and do not deserve to be breathing our air even living. I hope these parents burn in hell and are whipped every f--king second of their miserable time in hell."
A description of the video identifies the male abuser as Aransas County Court-At-Law Judge William Adams.
"Judge William Adams is not fit to be anywhere near the law system if he cant even exercise fit judgment as a parent himself. Do not allow this man to ever be re-elected again. His 'judgment' is a giant farce. Signed, Hillary Adams, his daughter," the YouTube description says.
The person who wrote the video description does, however, defend the woman in the video.
"The judge's wife was emotionally abused herself and was severely manipulated into assisting the beating and should not be blamed for any content in this video," it says. "The judge's wife has since left the marriage due to the abuse, which continues to this day, and has sincerely apologized and repented for her part and for allowing such a thing, long before this video was even revealed to exist."
Chief Jayroe confirmed his department is investigating Judge Adams.
"We haven't confirmed the authenticity of the video yet or spoke with the person who made it," Jayroe said. "It appears to have been made in 2004. We have not verified anyone's participation in the video yet."
Earlier today, KRIS-TV spoke with Hillary Adams. She said she was 16 years old when the video was filmed.
"It had happened before and had been escalating," Adams told the news station. "I set up a camera, and I caught it."
Adams reportedly said the abuse had gone on for years and that she only recently decided to upload the video.
"My father's harassment was getting really bad, so I decided to finally publish the video that I had been sitting on for 7 years," Adams said.
Judge Adams himself spoke with the station Wednesday, claiming the beating was "not as bad as it looks on tape." He also told KRIS-TV that he had contacted Judicial Review in Austin and "more will come out during the investigation."
tl;dr
A top-tier judge, who worked on deciding on whether certain parents are fit to raise their children, violently abused his 16-year-old daughter with a belt
My comment:
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this is not how u discipline your children. what he did will psychologically scar her for life. not only that the the fact that his action resulting in him being incarcerated will also scar her for life for putting her father for life. his action is a double-edged sword against his daughter
and "take it like a grown woman"??? i've never seen a grown ass woman being spanked like that or should be spanked like that. i don't know what type of woman she's talking about
Wow, poor girl but what surprised me more is her reaction at the beginning, she was scared, she knew what was going to happen and they actually seems to do this because she likes games and anime as i can see (they think she is in immature just because she is a gamer), my parents had the same way of thinking (but they never beat me) and they changed they mind when i showed then that it is a hobby and some games are more mature than the conversation of some friends of mine with the "normal mature mark"
I'm supportive of disciplining your kids, but when I first saw this, yeah. Discipline does not require both parents beating up a kid for 8 minutes straight, especially not while cursing at the kid. If you aren't calm while doing it, you aren't doing it right; it's supposed to be a lesson. The part that proves that is when he comes back in after a minute or so saying 'I never got my licks in" and started up with his weird obsession with making her get on her stomach again.
The mother wasn't helping either. If it weren't for the situation, I would have lol'd at "take it like a woman!".
What a monster. I'd never stoop so low just to beat my own child like that in the future. I'm surprised she didn't fight back because I definitely would have stood up.
That looked pretty brutal. Mad props to the girl for not getting on her stomach though, as if she would have it would have been pure unprotected lashings of rage from her folks.
All for playing games and music that were obtained through illegal means? What a bunch of hicks.
Teppi Wrote:what confuses me is "why now?" she could've just put it up when it happened instead of bear with it for 7 years
Fear? I don't know. Fear that some insane father figure was going to rape her or something even more extreme if she ever did something like that while she was still under his roof. On the offchance that CPS didn't take her to safety immediately, he probably would have, too.
Also, she has a disability, so she probably also had a "nobody would want to help me anyway" complex about it in her teens, that's normal under circumstances like those. Hell, it would be normal for someone without a disability if both parents were that mentally and physically abusive.
