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Texas Judge Who Beat Daughter in Shocking Vid: ‘I Haven’t Done Anything Wrong’

PORTLAND, Texas (The Blaze/AP) — Corpus Christi television station KZTV caught up with Judge William Adams, the Texas father who has come under intense scrutiny after a video showing him beating his daughter was posted on YouTube. While he was getting into his vehicle Wednesday, the judge confirmed it was him in the video. But he said it “looks worse than it is” and he doesn’t expect to be disciplined.

“In my mind, I haven’t done anything wrong other than discipline my child after she was caught stealing,” Adams said. “And I did lose my temper, but I’ve since apologized.” Watch Adams make these comments, here:

When told of her father’s comments, Hillary Adams, who posted the video intentionally and who was the subject of the beatings, said, “it’s a shining perfect example of his personality and he believes he can do no wrong. … He will cover up rather than admit to what he did and try to come clean, which is what I really want him to do.”

She stressed that she did not post the video as revenge and does not want her father punished. Rather, she did it because she thinks it will force him to seek help, and because he has been harassing her and she thought posting the clip would make that stop.

“We need to reach out to victims and the abusers themselves to get people to realize what it actually is,” she said.

Hillary, who was 16 at the time, said she secretly videotaped the beating in her bedroom because she “knew something was about to happen.” She says her parents were angry at her for using her computer to download pirated content over the Internet.

She says that until last week, only a couple of close friends knew about the savage beating she received seven years ago from her father, Judge William Adams, a Texas judge who handles child abuse cases. See the disturbing video here (caution: language and violence):

No one answered the door Wednesday at the judge’s home, repeated calls to his office rang unanswered and his attorney, William Dudley, did not respond to phone messages seeking comment. A neighbor said she saw Adams and his girlfriend packing luggage, a briefcase and rifles into their truck, as if to leave for a while.

It seems Hillary is receiving widespread support. Infamous hacker group “Anonymous” has even issued a video message, promising the make the judge pay for his action. Here is the video the group posted on YouTube:

The lines between what‘s deemed child abuse and what’s considered an acceptable level of discipline differ in various parts of the country and among various social groups, though the use of objects such as belts and sticks is usually seen as beyond any normal physical punishment, said David Finkelhor, a University of New Hampshire sociology professor who heads the school’s Crimes against Children Research Center.

Jim Hopper, a clinical instructor in psychology at Harvard Medical School and a child abuse expert, said there is no doubt that the judge’s actions crossed the line.

“This is an act of brutal violence,” Hopper said. “To beat someone into submission is not discipline. To beat a child into submission makes it harder for that child to take in rules and the values that the parent believes they are imposing on the child.”

Adams, Aransas County’s top judge, was elected in 2001 and has dealt with at least 349 family law cases in the past year alone, nearly 50 of which involved state caseworkers seeking determine whether parents were fit to raise their children.

Patrick Crimmins, a spokesman for the state Department of Family and Protective Services, said in an email that the agency is aware of the video and “will take the appropriate steps in this matter.” He said the agency would have no further comment.

Steve Fischer, a longtime attorney in Rockport, called Adams fair and a “better than average” judge. He said Adams sometimes showed anger, but not in a way that would be considered unusual.

Hillary, whose parents divorced in 2007 after 22 years of marriage, said she waited this long to post the video because she didn’t know what would have happened to her had she posted it just after it happened.

“If this had blown up when I was a minor who knows where I would be. I wouldn’t be able to escape.”

While Hillary is close with her mother, she suspects the video will only further alienate her from her father’s side of the family. Still, she says she believes it was the right thing to do.

“I’m very relieved that these things have been brought to light and not because I want to see my father burn or anything like that. That‘s a hideous way of thinking and I don’t want to inflict that upon him,” she said. “I cannot stress enough – I cannot repeat myself enough, that he just needs help.”

Below, see a video that documents Hillary’s “journey through the world of piano.” Posted to the same YouTube account as the beating video, the official description credits her mother with helping her overcome various obstacles:

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  • tbeachhead
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:56am

    Let’s see: The daughter stole someone else’s property, pirated copyrighted material and subjected her parents to the threat of fines in six digits and years long litigation and emprisonment. Crucify the dad.

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    • Libertarian B 4 Libertarians Were Cool
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:46am

      Two wrongs don’t make a right. Entirely separate issues! Should she be punished? Yes! Should she be whipped like a dog? Aren’t you smarter than that?

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    • zorro
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:12am

      I hate my dog…stupid thing is destroying my backyard! But I still wouldn’t beat it like this.

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    • Lindarm
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 4:17pm

      TBEACHHEAD. Yeah you look like a beater.

      No human being should strike another human being, with anything, especially a belt. Especially in anger. That’s not a cure anything. It’s only creates resentment and fear. The father cleary was angry, cursed her, told her she didn’t deserve to live in their house. What kind of Sh”’ is that to tell a kid? What he did was wrong and hurtful, not educational or helpful.

      BEACH, I hope you are sterile and can’t reproduce. You sound like an uneducated moron

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    • vnachi77
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 4:25pm

      TBEACH, are you out of your mind? Take pirated content off the computer and the result is a beating like this. This was child abuse pure and simple and there is no excuse for it. I work in a maximum security prison, convicted murderers and rapists are pressent in every unit. Should I or any of my co-workers beat any of those inmates half as bad as this and it was recorded, the following would happen within a week, if not days; suspended without pay pending investigation, arrested by the CT State police, fired for excessive use of force. After I was convicted in a criminal court, I would be immediately be named in a civil case. I sumbit anyone who finds this type of behavior appropriate punishment for what she did, has the same type of deranged convictions held by the murderers and rapists I work with.

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    • mcdonnal
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 4:25pm

      Your damned right crucify the Dad, that bastard should be drawn and quartered. That little girl may have violated his trust and even committed a crime, she also suffers from Cerebral Palsy, I am sure that big stud has never sentenced a real criminal to the kind of punishment that he administered to his own child. He may be a Judge but he sure is not honorable in my eyes. May he rest in pieces.

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    • Faith1029
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 4:25pm

      I wonder who was video taping?

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    • LittleMissPatriot
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 4:45pm

      So you think threatening to beat a 16 year in the face with a belt and wear out the skin on her body is a valid punishment for downloading a pirated game?? After the mother already said she HAD spanked her?

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 5:29pm

      “So you think threatening to beat a 16 year in the face with a belt and wear out the skin on her body is a valid punishment ”

      A threat is nothing more than that. I don’t excuse it. but I’m not having judgmental hysterics like some of you sissies are. You all disgust me. You have no memory of how corporal discipline has been excercised for centuries, or you think that somehow new morals have come into being regarding this that are so obvious all you have to do is assert them as if you’re a prophet.

      You are liberals in your hearts no matter what you think or claim. Jeff Foxworthy should come out with a new routine, “You might be a liberal”

      “If you see someone doing what was commonplace fifty years ago and automatically call him a criminal, you might be a liberal”

      “If you think you have the ability to declare what is right and wroing without reference to anything but your gut, you might be a liberal”

      This is fun. We have to think of some more. I’m sure some of you liberals will help out. Much thanks, pansies.

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    • neohiobiker
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 5:54pm

      the video showed a father punishing his daughter this was not a beating where I went to college in wva paddleing was an excepted form of punishment that the teachers handed out and guess what yes your correct very civil children

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    • aragona
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 6:19pm

      Perhaps she wouldn’t have been “whipped like a dog” if she would have obeyed her father and bent over the bed like he repeatedly told her! She would have probably gotten 10 whacks and it would have been over. I would have probably done the same.

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 6:23pm

      “BEACH, I hope you are sterile and can’t reproduce. You sound like an uneducated moron”

      Ahh the sweet sound of compassionate liberalism. Don‘t you just love their hesitantion to jump to condemnation of those who say something they don’t like?

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    • johnannegalt
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 6:54pm

      Let’s see, I’m 21 years old now, and as a 15-17 year old primarily, I was “beaten” as this video calls it multiple times by multiple sources, including by my principal with his good old wooden paddle. Get over it. It’s not like he punched her. A belt smacking your legs/butt? You’ll be welt/bruise-free in less than a week. She broke the law, her parents were understandably very angry, and they showed her how they felt when she betrayed their trust and mis-used their property to STEAL property from others. I would hit my kids with belts, too. And how disabled is she, really, if she can download music, think ahead to record it, etc? I know someone with anxiety who is thus “disabled”, still a functioning human.

      Again, they are the parents. She (was) the child. Did she have physical damage from this, other than maybe a bruise? Did she learn her lesson? Hmm, I‘m willing to bet she didn’t STEAL anymore after this. Better she gets spanked than moves on to stealing other things, gets thrown in jail and who knows what happens to her, or she falls into the wrong crowd, or whatever.

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    • snooop1e
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 7:18pm

      So if a child is justifiably wrong beating the child with a leather belt for 7 minutes while screaming the F word and cursing the Lords name is acceptable punishment. Unbelievable. If someone beat you like this in public they would face criminal assault charges and possibly kidnapping for holding you against your will. It’s amazing to me how many people think this beating was justified because the girl “stole a computer game on the Internet” Over the past 5 decades (maybe longer) our culture has substituted kids for career and we are seeing the results. Children aren’t even safe in the womb so this video though shocking comes as no surprise. Basically our culture has come to see kids as an unfortunate result of sexual pleasure. As Barack Obama said, “If my daughter makes a mistake I don’t want her punished with a baby” God have mercy on us, we’ve become so selfish that we have come to view the incredible gift of life as a “punishment” something that interferupts our earning potential and quality of life………..

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    • snooop1e
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 7:33pm

      jorskippy – Actually “Time Outs” are VERY effective. The problem is simple, parents spend an average of 5 minutes a week actually engaging their children and then when they start acting out and doing dumb things they become enraged because they are adversely impacting their peace and quiet and their quality of life. Anyone ever watch 19 kids and counting? or Super Nanny? Ever notice how spending time with kids and paying attention to them calms them down and makes them more considerate, loving and caring? It’s really very very simple. Dedicate your life and your time to your children, make them the most imporant thing you have to do everyday (yes that includes diciplining them) and they will be a blessing to you and others. Or you can shove them off on day care, pick them up at 5pm and ignore them all the way home while you talk on the cell phone, plop them in front of the computer, until bedtime and then start all over again the next day and see how things turn out.

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    • Crash1997
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 7:38pm

      Yep..The question is “How much is too much when it comes to a wuppin’?” The girl did wrong. Maybe the dad went too far. Everyone wants to support the girl and hang the dad. Admit the girl did wrong and she, too, should be punished with the crime of knowingly and willingly downloading pirated content. If the dad is going to lose his job pver the wuppin’, he would have likely lost it for the crime of his daughter. And taping the wuppin’ because you know it will happen tells you that she knew what she did was wrong in the first place. Quit defending children that knowingly commit a crime and make them take responsibility for their own actions.

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    • MitchRappInCharge
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:25pm

      I’m a firm believer in whooping your kids. I’m not even against using a belt, switch or paddle. But this man went way overboard. That is child abuse, pure and simple. Both physical and mental abuse.

      I had three girls and they‘ve all had their share of whoopin’s. I stopped whoopin’ them after they became teenagers though. Didn’t really need it much anyway. (parents should never discipline their children in anger)

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    • EyebrowsLaMana
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:07pm

      You don’t abuse a kid for doing something wrong, yes absolutely discipline them but not abuse them.

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    • jb11111
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:40pm

      To tbeachhead,

      So I take it you do not use reason but beat your wife and children regularly.

      You are not just SICK but a Coward of the worst kind…….. you pick on disabled children.

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    • jb11111
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:44pm

      To tbeachhead,

      You are obviously a Sick Coward who beats disabled children when you are drinking like this Vile Excuse for a human.

      By your comment it is quite obvious that you are ignorant.

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    • vnachi77
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:45pm

      Crash, you want to make the girl responsible for her crime? Fine, her dad is an officer of the court, in some places he would qualify as a law enforcement officer. His job as a judge is to uphold the law, was it not? He knew of a ongoing criminal enterprise (his daughters continuing to download illegal content) and he did not report it. His knowledge of a crime and his active role in covering up such crimes by not reporting it, is against the law. Reporting it (she was 16 and would have gotten a slap on the wrist), would have been legally correct, morally correct and would have taught her a lesson. Since he chose to take the law into his own hands as a way to combat her illegal behavior, what say we go down there and beat him 17 times with a belt? This was WRONG on so many levels and anyone who continues to defend it has got issues that can’t even begin to be solved with anything less than a lobotomy.

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    • deca_x
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 11:20pm

      So you honestly feel that she should be beaten, for something thousands have done with no repercussions. If you saw this happen on the street would find it disgusting or say “Thats a good parent.”?

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    • PoliticalHumor
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 11:55pm

      @Lindarm
      You obviously do not comprehend the full enlightening idea, and theory, of disciplinary actions; as such, your comment is not only invalid, but irrelevant. I don‘t need to try to justify a father’s actions. Neither should you. The outrageously funny part of your comment, let’s see, ” No human being should strike another human being, with anything, especially a belt. Especially in anger. That’s not a cure anything. It’s only creates resentment and fear. The father cleary was angry, cursed her, told her she didn’t deserve to live in their house. What kind of Sh”’ is that to tell a kid? What he did was wrong and hurtful, not educational or helpful.” Are you serious? You don‘t recall back in the 9140’s, when you PUNISHED your child the way you saw fit? Swearing? I agree with you on that. That was uncalled for. However, that being said, a 16 year-old girl, STEALING(which, by the way, is WRONG. She obviously knew the extent of her actions if she planted a camera in her bedroom), and then acting like she was a victim is an old trick. I learned not to steal. Through so called “beatings”. And guess what! I don’t STEAL anymore. Oh, and this is TEXAS by the way. Not California. Please, post back. Ii would make my day to hear you try to justify yourself.

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    • jsisco11
      Posted on November 4, 2011 at 6:14am

      You’re like TOTALLY missing the point! As are MANY others replying to this post…..The indictment on William Adams (he no longer deserves his title) is NOT for disciplining his daughter but viciously beating her. There was only rage present that I could witnessed. I was a parent of four who DID believe in and practice spankings when required. Parental discipline, even if spanking is the method chosen MUST be carried out in love. Why are some too thick to understand that??

      I am convinced that Adam’s would already be recovering from this incident had he shown more remorse for his actions and pleaded for forgiveness from his daughter and seek help as his daughter has requested. But no, he continues in his arrogance to insist he has done nothing wrong….

      Your response is to imply that the victim is the villain…………….. Wake up.

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    • Aikes
      Posted on November 4, 2011 at 8:21am

      tbeachhead one word describes you if you feel he was anywhere near being justified…. “douche”.

      There is a reason why this story is creating a bigger stir world wide than the Presidents last three speaches, anyone who would beat a child like that is simply a horrible person. That mother and father should both be in prison. Not fined, but put in prison. If you have children and you treat them this way then your sorry rear should be in prison right beside this piece of work.

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    • Aikes
      Posted on November 4, 2011 at 8:24am

      Lets meet. Let me hold you down and beat you like a dog. Believe me, Im big enough. After I tell you to take it like a man and beat you in front of your wife with her cheering ME on… then tell me how wrong you were for doing something I didn’t agree with. Abusive people should be tossed in prison with the rest of the trash of humanity.

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    • hoopojoop
      Posted on November 4, 2011 at 8:27am

      I guess you’re one of those tough guys who feels like a man after you beat a woman or child.

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    • Dinkiecb
      Posted on November 4, 2011 at 9:05am

      Clearly … he didn’t beat her enough! Time to take around behind the wood shed and really give her the beatin she REALLY deserves, and will remember anytime she tries to sit down.

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    • Mosell
      Posted on November 4, 2011 at 9:34am

      While I agree she should be punished. Note I said Punished. I didn’t say beat. And I have been as he said “spanked” in my formative years. This was not a spanking. This was a beating out of rage. It may not have started as rage but it soon turned into rage. Also I don’t care if this happened yesterday or 6 years ago. This jusdge needs to be remprimanded.

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    • dimishi
      Posted on November 4, 2011 at 10:11am

      The American people are so astonishingly sensative to any ANY kind of discipline when it comes to your children….unless it is a “time-out“ or ”NO TV” then no form of physical discipline is accepted, no wonder so many children grow up to be snobby and arrogant and grow up with a sense of Entitlement! My father had DISCIPLINED me the same exact way that this father is doing in the video…and he did it when I DID WRONG….he did NOT abuse me and his use of the belt had helped me be a much better person…and in due time this young 22 year old girl will understand the reasons for discipline of children!

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    • TheWholeTruth
      Posted on November 4, 2011 at 10:51am

      I have to say one thing.. This was such a freakin’ SET UP! The girl purposely set the camera up so the parents couldn’t see it. Then refuses to obey her father all the time screaming and fake crying. (I have one of those, or had, she’s 24 now) IF she had done as she was told, she would have gotten probably 3 licks max, but she made the situation worse by purposely disobeying and creating a bigger problem. Then when the parents leave, not a peep out of her. They come back, same story over again. They leave, not even a sniffle and she calmly goes and turns off the cam. Yeah, child abuse.. riiiiiiiiight.

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    • ConstitutionalPatriot
      Posted on November 4, 2011 at 3:51pm

      So Libertarian, it is ok for her to steal, act out because she KNEW the video was running. Stored the video for approximately 7 years. She was cut off from her daddy’s Mercedes and her money for living expenses.

      You say you are a Libertarian, yet you defend a gimme girl that literally set-up her father and mother and used it against them, so she could live with her boyfriend subsidized from her father.

      Are you sure you do not mean ‘Liberal even thou its not cool’?

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    • Susan Kline
      Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:43pm

      Since the judge doesn’t see anything wrong with beating his daughter with a belt, I think he should demonstrate his belief by allowing a man who weighs at least 100 lbs more than him beat him 17 times on the back with a nice thick leather belt. I’ll bet we could find a volunteer. I only weigh 120 lbs, but let me at him. And where the hell was the mother of this child?

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    • sodacrackers
      Posted on November 4, 2011 at 10:10pm

      Faith, she did the videotaping herself. She set it up knowing she was going to be beaten. It is very difficult to see.

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    • OlBlackCat
      Posted on November 6, 2011 at 12:54am

      The girl had probably been talked to more than once about this problem and kept doing it. My Dad always said if I can‘t get to your brain by your ears I’ll have to use your butt, so you deceide which it will be. She was told to bend over the bed and take her licks but she chose to agrivate the sitution by still disobeying. Yes she has a physical disability but not a mental one. Had I acted like this would not have expected my father to have handled it any differently. Think there is more to this than the girl wants anyone to know. Thank goodness I was an easy learner and only got 2 whippings while I lived at home,both of which I deserved. Guess we Texans are just a tougher breed. Here minding the fist time could mean the differance between life and death exspecially if your raised on a ranch.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:51am

    The Family from Hell!

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  • ADNIL
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:49am

    If she made the video because she wanted this to stop, why didn’t she post it immediately? Because she did not know where she would end up? In foster care, most likely, but I guess it wasn’t bad enough for that.
    My last spanking looked like this at 13 years old minus the screaming and swearing. My mother did it because my dad was too angry and he knew it. She used a 3/4″ stick of moulding and cried the whole time. I screwed up big time by making my parents go through extreme worry by unwittingly “going missing” for a few hours, but I learned an important lesson. That actions, even benign ones, have consequences. Thanks mom and dad.

    But stealing is never ok. It doesn’t matter what or where or that “everybody does it”. THEY DON’T! And better to learn with a few whacks at home at 16 (younger is better) than at 26 by going to jail. If dad didn’t care, he would not have been so angry.

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    • zorro
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:55am

      Adnil, the fact you or anyone else had a beating like this or worse doesn’t make it right. The fact this didn‘t screw you up psycologically or that you don’t hate your parents doesn’t matter either. This kind of beating is never right, period. I love my parents for diciplining me as well. I don’t recall any beating like these (repressed?) but even if I had, it_still_doesn’t_make_it_right.

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    • jorskippy
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 12:08pm

      It is no wonder to me why there are so many uncontrollable teenagers and young adults. Does anyone think “time out” would have worked in this situation. Trying to get control of a teenager is very difficult. Take one that steals, lies, and is disrepectful just adds to the trials of a parent. This father appeals to be trying to teach her a lesson. Not that I think beating a child is ok but spankings should be allowed. Now that she is trying to distroy him and his careers, who is going to pay her bills.

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    • chaparra72
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 2:55pm

      I have a feeling the father was more concerned about his reputation if she was caught stealing, than for the daughter herself.

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    • davegail
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 4:07pm

      A fly swat, small switch, paddle, even a light belt is justified at a young age (under 12) if the punishment is for the child’s own benefit in learning a lesson. But a foul mouthed angry father and mother beating a 16 years old is criminal behavior.. I am a 67 year old conservative grandfather who grew up under corporal punishment from loving parents and still love them dearly long after they have gone on. However, if my dad had attacked me in that manner at 16 years of age, I would have defended myself in like manner and would have been completely justified in doing so!

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    • symphonic
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 5:49pm

      The daughter was submissive. Said yes sir. She never swore at him. That monster of a dad is the one who should have been whipped silly for what he did AND said.

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    • freethinking
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 6:22pm

      @DG
      I’m witchya. My life was ‘leave it to beaver’ land.
      What I saw was very disturbing.

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    • snooop1e
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 7:25pm

      I’ll say it again. I‘ve raised 7 children and I’ve got one on the way and I have never spanked them with anything other than my open hand on thier bottom and not that hard. Hitting your kids with anything other than your hand is child abuse. The EPW’s in GITMO are not even treated this way. Prisoners in Max security are not treated this way. Waterboarding is torture but imagine what would happen if a video was released showing a terrorist being beaten like this? People would come unhinged and someone would go to prison. On the other hand if your beating your own child it’s ok????? Unbelievable…..

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    • loriann12
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:32pm

      @davegail

      I’m almost 48. I was spanked up until probably middle school. Dad didn’t need a belt, his hand worked just fine. After middle school, it was taking away priveledges, grounding to my room WITHOUT the record player. My husband had a hot wheel track used on him. I think 16, even with stealing, is a bit old to be whipped like that. He had his arm all the way back, giving everything he had into it. I do have a 21 year old going on 7, which is the exception to the spanking rule, but if he ever figures out he’s stronger than me, I’m in trouble. And it’s 1 or 2 swats with a ping pong paddle. If she was the techno-holic that the article says, taking away her computer would be the worst punishment.

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    • Moonroses
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:45pm

      My mother beat me in the same manner as the judge did, over and over. And I still hate and resent her to this very day. I have no respect for her. As an adult, I now see that my mother’s “discipline” stemmed from how I injured her pride. and I knew, when a made a mistake (because I am human and was a kid/teenager, that mistakes would happen), what my “punishment” would be. My mother is easy to predict in that manner. Furthermore, if my husband caught me downloading a song illegally, what would you or anyone else say to him pulling off him belt and whipping me for seven minutes straight with it? Wives have shot their husbands for such treatment and got away with it because ti’s

      My father, who spanked me twice in my entire life, did so with the flat of his hand for a few seconds, and then sat me down and lectured me for two hours straight. I was better behaved after that, because my father made me think critically through the mistake I made, how I could have done different, how I could have avoided making the mistake in the first place, what other consequences were called for, and what I thought was a more suitable punishment.

      Because my father took the time to show me the error of my ways, I learned far more than from my mother’s showing me the wrath of a woman scorned. My mother didn’t teach me anything except to flinch.

      (PS: the welts lasted for weeks, and the bruises took better than a month to heal.)

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    • kmichaels
      Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:05pm

      [symphonic
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 5:49pm
      The daughter was submissive. Said yes sir. She never swore at him. That monster of a dad is the one who should have been whipped silly for what he did AND said.]

      Yes, the dad was very wrong, morally, legally, the works. However, saying the daughter was submissive is a far stretch. She seemed to be trying to make it last on purpose. I definitely do not condemn her for it, but I have to still be suspicious if she did not want it to escalate on purpose.

      The mother seemed like she was trying to end it quickly, to actually help her daughter. However, she should have been more forceful in saying enough is enough.

      The dad admitted he was wrong, so obviously we should too. And my guess is the dad minimized how wrong he was, but that is human nature as well.

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  • ThurstonHowellIV
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:46am

    Why all the controversy? He’s a JUDGE. You see, the Ruling Class is not supposed to have to follow the same rules as the Serfs.

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:14am

      We “serfs” shouldn’t have to follow these new rules you think should exist. He did nothing criminal. It was in his rights as a praent. It we thought he did his duty poorly that is really none of our business. Perhaps ypu hink all parents sjhould have to look over their shoulder when they spank their children? There are places, like in the People’s Republic of Massachesetts, where simply whacking your child in the supermart can have the child taken away if some offended citizen turns you in.

      I was preparred to say, “big deal”, before I watched the video. then after seeing it I was shocked by his anger. He went beyond my standards. But after time I realize that all parents must be given some wide lattitude, or their parental authority becomes meaningless. I looked at this girl and she did not seem terrified by abuse. She was steadfastly refusing to take the whipping he demanded, which resulted in her being whipped more. If she was really a victim she would have done anything to get it over with and not antagonize him more. I saw none of that. I saw teenage rebellion and whining and crying, and his uncontrolled anger at that. All she had to do was lie down and get whacked, but she refused repeatedly. An abused child would not have stood up like that. They cowe.

      No abuse that should concern us is here.

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    • C. Schwehr
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 12:37pm

      So says another progressive troll……

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  • janedough1
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:46am

    This is what we have too much of in this country, and this is what we MUST clean up. I watched a couple of seconds in the middle of this video, and it made me sick. I’m surely not going to let the whole thing into my heart. Two seconds of that video were a beating. If it goes on any longer, this judge should be in jail. There is a difference between disciplining a child and beating them. If you haven’t taught your child well enough by age ten or twelve to be able to correct them without hitting them, you’ve done a pretty bad job. Spanking are for children who are too young to be able to understand cause and effect, and it should never be more than something that stings. By sixteen, they should understand cause and effect, and grounding is more appropriate. Take the computer away for a month, don’t beat the child.

    This judge should be impeached. He has a serious character flaw. But he is unfortunately not the only one. We’ve been asleep at the switch for a half century, and there are many of these out there. We have one in this area who chose to try to force her pro abortion views on girl who had been raped, and took her from her family because she refused to comply with the judges request to kill her child. The judge never inquired about the identity or age of the father of the baby, who happened to be a grown man and child molester. Where is the justice in that?

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:55am

      You voice the essence of liberalism. Perhaps you think that through the State you can make everyone perfect parents. Perhaps you don’t think that the excercize of that power will trample and destroy the ability of parents to discipline their children at all because they will always be at the mercy of the most sensitive and squeemish who might be “offended” at their method of sicipline, or by a mere poor execution of it (like no one here ever fails to do something properly). A man spanks his child in anger, “Punish him! That must stop!!!”. A man spanks his child NOT in anger, “It is NEVER right to hit a child!”. Soon all children will be placed in the loving arms of the State where bad things NEVER happen.

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    • C. Schwehr
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 12:42pm

      If I understand this correctly, the daughter put this video out on the internet as revenge for her having to return a car to the judge or other party. And the event happened SIX YEARS AGO. If this girl was really serious about what she said, it should have been on the internet then, not when she‘s again displeased with being told to do something she doesn’t like…..Looks like the judge may have been a little over the top in that one situation…..but it also looks like the woman in question is STILL A SPOILED BRAT!

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 12:56pm

      Here‘s another thing I haven’t seen mentioned. This happened when she was 16. If he was constantly abusive like this I would expect her to have more and WORSE recordings. She planned this one. She surely could have set up another.

      I think a lot of people are assuming that this judge was ALWAYS this bad and probably even worse, but the truth may be that this was the worst he got. We simply don’t have enough facts to justify any judgment. But I know that doesn’t stop some people.

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  • eric6161
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:41am

    Thank goodness my father did this to me… or I’d have been in prison. Too bad more fathers don’t show their love for their kids and prefer to see their kids in prison.

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    • your sensei
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:55am

      You BELONG in prison.

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    • investlite
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:13am

      I am a big believer in the effectiveness of a good swat on the butt, however this girl was much too old to be receiving this sort of punishment. Her brain has developed enough to understand reason. Find something she loves and take it away, it’s much more effective on the developed mind than slapping them around.

      When I was a kid there was nothing my parents could do to discipline me (i didn’t care what they took away or if i went to my room or timeout) so a stinging rear end did the trick. However I think I was 9 years old the last time I received a spanking (and it was never done with a stick or other object, just a hand). That‘s when I started understanding my parents weren’t mad at me, they were mad at my behavior, and if I changed said behavior, life would be a lot better. Now I have 2 boys of my own and they will be getting the exact same discipline, cutomized to their personalities.

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    • Legalette
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:15am

      I totally agree. My dad had a paddle that said “Board of Education” … that was enough to at least make me stop and think twice before getting into trouble!!

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    • Libertarian B 4 Libertarians Were Cool
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:28am

      Or, conversely, maybe you’d have been an Einstein or Beethoven if your father showed you kindness, talked to you, and gave you gentle guidance. Just as logical! You have no idea. It’s completely illogical. “I got the cr@p kicked out of me, and it made all the difference!” HUH?

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:09am

      “if your father showed you kindness, talked to you, and gave you gentle guidance”

      You assume that stern discipline is incompatable with that. You are wrong. “For everything there is a season”. The law that has no teeth, and therefore no bite, is ineffective to teach or guide. Children need to learn that there are consequences in life that are not up to their acceptance of them. Once they learn that principle then they can be reasoned with. It’s why God starts with the Law and finishes with Grace. Law and judgment must come before Grace and forgiveness.

      I am in agreement that this father probably chose the wrong method to discipline his child at that age. And he probably executed it very poorly when she was younger and corporal punishment was more approriate. If he ever had his daughter’s loving respect he had lost it by that time. I can’t tell whether part of his visible anger stems from awareness of that.

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    • Libertarian B 4 Libertarians Were Cool
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:57am

      No Islesfordian, I assume beatings (not stern guidance) are ALWAYS wrong… This is abuse and I‘m shocked that many can’t get that through their thick skulls! You do this to anyone other than a child and it’s felony assault, but to some moronic people this is discipline. No it’s not, it’s still felony assault!

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    • Legalette
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 12:35pm

      I think there is a difference between beating and spanking. And who said that I am not an Einstein or Beethoven?? I am independent, hard-working and highly educated. Had my dad not been stern with me, I might have turned out to be a liberal on welfare.

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    • C. Schwehr
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 12:45pm

      The person calling itself “your sensei” is nothing but a bleeding heart progressive troll….

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 12:45pm

      “You do this to anyone other than a child and it’s felony assault”

      You know, there is a difference between your child and another adult. A parent has authority over his child that you he cannot claim over another free adult.

      By your standards, since slapping another person would be considered assualt (though I think that is where the law has become overprotective), I‘m guessing that you would consider spanking a child’s bottom “felony assault”.

      It’s so nice to have “libertarians” like you to tell us how to raise our children.

      BTW, are you pro-life, or is that none of the State’s business?

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    • Libertarian B 4 Libertarians Were Cool
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 2:17pm

      “You know, there is a difference between your child and another adult. A parent has authority over his child that you he cannot claim over another free adult.”

      There is no difference when it comes to beating a person with a leather strap 19 times. A parent has “custodial authority”, not ownership, or absolute authority…

      “It’s so nice to have “libertarians” like you to tell us how to raise our children.” I didn’t tell you how to raise your kids, but I know felony assault when I see it! This is clear felony assault and I‘m not surprised that you can’t see the difference!

      “BTW, are you pro-life, or is that none of the State’s business?” Roe vs. Wade is wrong. Abortion is not enumerated as a power of the Federal Government, and therefore should default as an issue covered under the 10th Amendment.

      Nice try skippy!

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 5:18pm

      “I know felony assault when I see it! ”

      Liberal reasoning, pure and simple. We are to be guided and rulked by YOUR sense of justice, no matter what the history or tradition is concerning these things.

      Perhaps all you whiny little liberals should check out Bill Cosby‘s ’To Russell, My Brother Whom I Slept With“ where he tells of his father giving them a ”beating” with the belt. Cosby didn’t seem scarred by it. This was standard in many black families and in white Southern families. They didn’t consider it abuse, let alone “felony assault”. But of course, to modern liberals, even those that call themselves “Libertarian”, nothing matters except what THEY approve and what THEY think is right.

      The essence of liberalism is uptight offense at something and indignation that any would disagree at how offensive and intolerable it is. “It’s felony assualt to beat your child with a belt. It’s animal cruelty to slaughter a pig/goat/whatever. It’s child abuse to smoke in the car with children. It’s killing the planet to drive an SUV. It’s child endangerment not to use a car seat. It’s homophobic to not want perverts to teach your children. blah blah blah blah blah.”

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    • johnannegalt
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 7:24pm

      I agree exactly! If my dad hadn’t spanked me, I’d probably be strung out on meth somewhere trying to figure out how to get foodstamps or welfare! I was a screwed up teen, but I responded well to DISCIPLINE. I am an employed woman, 21 years old, happily married, no kids (or abortions), and going to school as well.

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    • Libertarian B 4 Libertarians Were Cool
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:49pm

      Islesfordian

      Reading your posts you are intellectually dishonest. You quote scripture both pro and con and call people who don’t agree with you liberal. On the one hand you say: “No abuse that should concern us is here..” On the other: “there is another verse in the Bible that warns fathers not to drive their children to anger. Fathers must rule through love, not fear.”

      Did you see the F@#^ing video, or are you just a moralizing and proselytizing prig?

      You are clearly a dim bulb and a bad Christian… You call out people you know nothing about and cast moral judgements and denounce them as ‘liberals’. May I refer you to Matthew 7:1: “Judge not, lest ye not be judged.”

      You are the worst kind of hypocrite!

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    • jb11111
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:55pm

      Your Father was an ignorant man, eric6161, and it sounds like the apple did not fall fare from the tree.

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  • Tired-of-fools
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:37am

    And this guy is a judge in child abuse cases. What a dirtbag. A few years in the county jail ought to be about right for him. Maybe he can bunk up with Bubba.

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    • db321
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:51am

      The one thing that is missing in this video is love – I see hatred, disrespect, manipulation, and domination all of which are demonic. This man is a sick individual and should not be on the bench – You people in the Rockport area need to do the right thing at the voting booth.

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  • Grimace
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:31am

    You don’t treat people you love this way. I want to do the same to him. Big man treating a child this way.

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    • C. Schwehr
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 12:52pm

      And if you have an intractable child who ignores everything short of the belt? If you stop when the punishment might hurt their little sensibilities and maybe cause some discomfort, you’re training them to know that they can get away with ANYTHING….And it appears that this 22 year old child still hasn’t learned…trying to destroy her father out of spite SIX YEARS AFTER THE FACT. Her claim that she wants him to get help rings false in a very loud way.

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  • myptofvu
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:31am

    What about your ^&$%*&%^ wife who was disappointed that she did not get to abuse the child too?

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    • restlessgraves
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 2:38pm

      exactly what i was coming on here to say, MAMMA gets a pass, they are good buddies? Mamma instigated, took the belt away only so she could get in on it? But we are blasting daddy, not mamma, and daughter thinks daddy needs help, not mamma.

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  • 1956
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:24am

    If she was 16, I could have thought of better punishments. He could have turned her in for the shoplifting and had her sentenced to do some kind of time for it. I do believe that she was pretty conniving for her videotaping and her reactions. But the mother is just as disturbing… take it like a woman? I wonder – how many times the mother has been beaten by this judge?

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    • demint.disciple
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:36am

      Amazing !! Not a word about the mother that would let this happen or partake in the beating herself..
      Hillary says that mom did nothing wrong so I guess, that is what you all think now, huh ?
      Man, Hillary can pull the wool over alot of peoples eyes .. Hillary 2012 !! Go Hillary

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    • demint.disciple
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:38am

      @1956.. My comment wasn’t for you.. Sorry posted to the wrong person..

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    • skunk
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:29am

      Shoplifting?!? She downloaded music and games…

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    • donotdrinkthekoolade
      Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:04am

      Shame on both the parents. They completely overreacted and come off looking like the a**holes. They ought to have their mouths washed out with soap. I am totally disgusted by the father. I’d like to “belt” him in the mouth. My parents never swore at me and they certainly didn’t beat me with a belt. I am 54 years old and I grew up in the age of spanking. Take it from me, this is child abuse. If I had been that girl, I would have taken the video tape to the local PD and have them arrested.

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  • florida123
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:22am

    Over the top no doubt…….But why would you post such a thing on the internet? I question the girls motivation, what is she really trying to accomplish? 7yrs ago this occured and she chooses NOW to post this on the internet………Why?

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    • jzs
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:29am

      If you watched the video, you would know why she didn’t post it until she left home.

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    • demint.disciple
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:30am

      Because he told her to bring the car back and she didn’t want to.. Didn’t you get that part of the story ?

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    • zorro
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:59am

      Her motives are irrelevant. They don’t change the fact this “tough guy” beat her azz for something stupid while mommy stood there and told her to “take it like a woman.”

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:20am

    That was pure abuse. Not corporal punishment. This guy is hidious. The girl may deserve punishment but that was a beating by any standard.

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:34am

      The beating didn’t bother me. It was a belt. Fathers have udes belts on their children to discipline them for ages, and the Bible encourages such discipline. I am steadfastly against raising up new standards to judge parents.

      However, there is another verse in the Bible that warns fathers not to drive their children to anger. Fathers must rule through love, not fear. This father seemed clearly to have lost the ability to discipline his daughter with love. His anger instead was ruling him. And so he is reaping the fruits of his anger.

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    • your sensei
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:59am

      Isel of Jordan . . It’s lunacy like yours that gives Christians a bad name. Medical care for my child? Never. I will pray the disease away . . . hoopdala boopdala ipsy dipsy doo . . . What? Dead? It was god’s will.

      Such is the way for us Christians soldiers committed to the sanctity of life. Go back to the 11th century where you belong.

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:24am

      The drooling criticisms of pagan idiots hardly bothers me in the least, sensless. That you do not know or care that Christians have been sternly disciplining their children while at the same time creating the medical advances you take for granted is emblematic of the modern anti-religious bigotry.

      this man may not be the posterboy for Christian fathering, but neither is he the posterboy for parental abuse. I’d sooner be under his judgment than under yours. A man who judges with the law harshly is less to be feared than any do-good liberal who rules by his own standard.

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    • ConservativeFirst
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 5:54pm

      It was definitely his anger that was out of line. I always heard that one should never discipline out of anger. This is a good example of why……

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    • Nightreader
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 7:39pm

      When I was younger, my parents would get the belt out, and if they did, it was one smack hard enough to make it sting, but no harder. It taught me respect, from that ONE hit, this dad should not have hit her at all, because as you get older the same “discipline” doesn’t work. I am 14 now, and I know (from the ONE hit with the belt, when I was YOUNGER) that I should not do things wrong, and that my parents are trying to help me, my parents don’t even need to bring the belt out anymore, they use some other form of punishment (taking away “computer rights”, or grounding me for whatever I did). This man should not be walking free in the streets. If he can lose his temper like that, who says he’s not capable to do it again, to someone else this time?!

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  • demint.disciple
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:20am

    I guess it worked. The beating that is.. it took her 6 years to get back on the computer but only AFTER the father was out of the house through divorce.. I guarantee that the mother made her post this..
    Whatever, if you watch the video, through the whole beating all she did was cry, all the way that is until he said 6 months of no more computer, that’s when she said NO !! NO !!!….lol

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  • PATRIOTMAMA
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:17am

    God give this girl justice!!! God will repay him!!!! SHE WASN”T HURT??!!!! You take a beating like this and then we’ll talk about her not being hurt?!! Someone needs to give this guy a taste of his own medicine and the residents of this area need to get this guys out of office if he is not removed!!! He is obviously not fit to be judging anyone!!!

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    • demint.disciple
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:28am

      I wish you were my mom.. I could get away with anything …

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    • Dudley Do-Right
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:02am

      I’m with you PATRIOTMAMA. I’m sure the emotional pain this father inflicted on his daughter will last a lifetime. My wife and I have raised three children, all adults now and we never ever spanked or hit them. My heart is breaking for this woman.

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    • C. Schwehr
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 1:04pm

      Justice for this girl???? How about the obvious revenge she’s taking on her own father for making this 22 yr old CHILD return a car? If you listened to what was said in the video, her MOTHER used a belt on her before also….NO RETRIBUTION ON THE MOTHER! The story itself is highly slanted to give the impression that the girl was without fault and “beaten” for a trivial matter.
      This is a set up to harm her father for personal reasons which have nothing to do with the spanking she DESERVED…..

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  • G.E.R
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:17am

    He did this over a computer game. What does he do when it’s some thing serious

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  • Secessionista
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:10am

    People are so gullible.

    Looks like a conniving spoiled rotten daughter to me. And years later, she is still trying to extract revenge, and she released this video only after her parents divorced and her father asked her to return his vehicle to him. So she was caught downloading pirated internet content after have been told not to, and now she has stolen his car and refuses to bring it back. There is clearly an element of blackmail going on here, she threatened to release this video, and he stood his ground. She is likely shaking him down for money. She might fit in better at an OWS gathering. When he reports his vehicle stolen, and she is arrested for auto theft, we will see if she feels this was the right action. In the mean-time, he is trying to be compassionate towards a wayward daughter. Notice how she says her mother did nothing wrong? She’s playing the sex card, just as she started the video to record it and refused to bend over the bed, and screamed out during the spanking, but her crying stopped instantly when they stopped spanking her. She was drawing them in to her little play. It was an act. And they weren’t hitting her that hard, it just seems that way. The video may even have been audio-enhanced to make the belt pops sound a lot harder.

    Hillary is a lifetime thief, and our society would be better off without her. She’s demonstrated clearly that she cannot be rehabilitated.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:19am

      @ Secessionista
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:10am

      People are so gullible.

      Looks like a conniving spoiled rotten daughter to me.
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      Quoted For Truth!

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    • eric55
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:21am

      you ass hole what you are there is never any excuse to hit or beat a child in a rage like that you are surly unfit to raise children

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    • Secessionista
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:29am

      @ERIC55: “you ass hole what you are there is never any excuse to hit or beat a child in a rage like that you are surly unfit to raise children”

      How do the illiterate get computers?

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:29am

      @ eric55
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:21am

      you ass hole what you are there is never any excuse to hit or beat a child in a rage like that you are surly unfit to raise children
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      Says the dweeb ranting against this father like some brain cell lacking idiot.

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    • Jubarnes87
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 11:38am

      You hit the nail on the head. She knew she had to do her greatest performance because her camera was rolling. Since when do slightly disabled kids have a free pass to do whatever the hell they want, she was illegally downloading things…in her parents house. He was a little out of control, but how many times had she blatantly broken rules or rebelled. This is one video….that doesn’t give you the whole picture.

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    • supernova1
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 12:13pm

      you are sick and need to be put down

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    • supernova1
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 12:17pm

      also, you 100% qualify as a pedophile: that is what pedophiles do when they condition their children- turn the perception of the events of abuse around- i hope anonymous hacks into your computer and finds your pedostash.. and then you get a visit from the FBI while i say buh-bye to ones less devil in the world

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    • blakely
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 7:56pm

      You are as sick as the Judge. I hope that you do not have any children.

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    • jb11111
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 11:18pm

      You sound like a very Ignorant, Stupid person, secessionista.

      These people have obviously been drinking.

      This is a Vile, Evil Act to beat a disabled child or any other child (call it Spanking if it makes you feel better and not like the Coward you are).

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  • hightide
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:08am

    So the daughter has a problem with shop lifting and the parents find out and put a belt to her. The kid video‘s it and put’s it on You Tube. Is that it?
    The problem with the world today is that not enough parents punish their children when they do wrong. I got spanked with a belt and learned not to do stupid things like steal. If these OWS idiots had a belt put their butts then they would be finding a job instead of protesting against the people who have one.

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  • let us prey
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:07am

    Anonymous is involved?
    Why don’t they post a video for the DOJ? Holder needs to go.

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    • zorro
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:05am

      Because they’re just a bunch of Obama supporters in disguise.

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  • McNamara
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:05am

    I got busted with belts and a 1×4 as a paddle. Some of them I probably deserved, some I didnt agree with, there has to be a fine line between punishment and beatings. I think kids need a good spanking when they do wrong, but it should not be done when the parent is furious or angry.

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:11am

      In the day, I would get spanked by teachers who had paddles with holes in them…it was a rite of passage to be spanked by the wood shop teacher…man that guy had an arm on him…yep, he left marks but I did not repeat the offense. LOL

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    • JLGunner
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:23am

      Exactly, this father was pissed and took it out on his daughter. Shameful.

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:01am

      Yes, the father was angry when he disciplined his daughter, and THAT’S what makes it look so bad. We see the anger. But he did nothing criminal, nothing that anyone here has a right to judge. For if we start to judge a parent who is excercizing discipline what possible safeguards are there to protect the rights of parents to discipline their children?

      To those who say children should be spanked but not beaten, what is the difference? It seems subtl;e and illusory shades of meaning are created to declare absolute categories. Todays “spanking” will be tomorrow’s “beating”, and today’s “beating” was yesterday’s “spanking”. Has anyone here noticed how undisciplined todays children are. Is there perhaps a connection between that and the refusal of parents to instill enough discipline in their children, perhaps because they fear being accused of abuse?

      “Children should respect their parents, not fear them”. Hogwash. How do you think respect begins? I live by the sea. Those who don’t respect the water will pay the price. That’s not phobia. it is the kind of “fear” that acknowledges power of the water and that IT, not you, sets the rules.

      “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” Children who NEVER fear their parents will not fear the law or truly respect the rights of anyone else. Fear does not preclude love. It establishes the framework in which true love is learned.

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    • your sensei
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:42am

      Isis . . . Anyone who believes respect comes only through fear deserves neither. (Sensie 13:21)

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:02am

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    A Texas Judge gave the guy who BEAT my 13 month old grandson and put him in the hospital for 3 days, a mear 90 days in jail. Yet they want to hang this guy for whipping a teenager who did not need medical attention. Where is the justice? Did I mention the Judge fined me a $1,000 dollars for chewing his behind when he asked if the family had anything to say.

    All I can say is TEXAS SUCKS…………

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:48am

      Beats Massachussets. There a mom who spanks her child in public can have her children taken away, while a pedophile rapist can be given a minoir sentence.

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    • TishTheDish
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 10:02am

      Does anyone remember the Corpus Christi Judge that sentenced a woman for spanking her two-year-old? She didn’t use a belt…..just her hand hard enough to leave a red mark.
      So, it’s ok for the Judges, but not for anyone else?

      Rosalina Gonzales had pleaded guilty to a felony charge of injury to a child for what prosecutors had described as a “pretty simple, straightforward spanking case.” They noted she didn’t use a belt or leave any bruises, just some red marks.

      As part of the plea deal, Gonzales will serve five years probation, during which time she’ll have to take parenting classes, follow CPS guidelines, and make a $50 payment to the Children’s Advocacy Center.

      “You don’t spank children today,” said Judge Jose Longoria. “In the old days, maybe we got spanked, but there was a different quarrel. You don’t spank children.”

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    • Mimi24
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:42pm

      I am so sorry to hear that happened to your grandson. I hope he recovered and is doing well with no memories of what happened to him. As a grandparent myself, I would consider the $1000.00 money well spent. I hope you blistered him/her. Sometimes we just have to do what we have to do.

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  • rcampb10
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:01am

    Its one thing to punish, but this was a modern day whiping. I too, got the belt from my father, but this guy is out of control. In my opinion, it is child abuse! Burn the SOB.

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    • demint.disciple
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:25am

      Read the story instead of just watching the videos … After, ask yourself, what is this girl trying to get away with this time..

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 9:44am

      What authority do you think your “opinion” should have when it comes to judging parents for their disciplining their children? People seem awfully quick to move from, “I don’t like that” or I wouldn’t do it that way”, to “that is ABUSE” and then to “the father should be punished”.

      God help parents in such a judgmental atmosphere where they have to worry about crossing that invisible line and being judged by well-meaning absolutists.

      I’ve got news for all of you. People are imperfect and stuff happens in childhood. Get over it. The law should only get involved when serious abuse is occuring that could kill or seriously traumatize the child. The law should never be at the call of people who find things shocking or offensive. Blah, blah blah. I am shocked when parents let their children call them by their fists name, because that is stupid. I am shocked when parents let their little children watch R rated movies. Others are shocked whne they see parents smoke in the same room as their children. “Heaven forbid!”

      Mind your own damned business. Oh, wouldn’t the world be a better place if we did more of that? Of course, it would mean that we would have to put up with being bothered by people not doing what we thought they should. The horror, the horror.

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    • Always-Right
      Posted on November 4, 2011 at 3:44am

      @ Islesfordian

      Where do you get off calling people like me a liberal??? So if I see a grown man beat his 16 year old daughter into submission with a belt and it makes me want to vomit then that makes me a liberal. You are a sick stupid twisted *******. Words failed me when I watched this. I have 4 kids. It would never occur to me to ever think that this would ever be right. It is child abuse, you hear me??? You are such a moronic sadistic pig. You can look at that and it doesnt make you want to reach out and stop it ?? And you have a picture of Jesus next to your name. Sick twisted pig. Everything you ever write on this site from now on will be ignored by those of us that actually have a belief in Christ and are firm conservatives.

      “And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.” -Mark 9:42

      This guy didnt just “offend” he sadisticly beat “one of these little ones”.

      You are abhorrent…..get thee behind me satan !!!

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  • amerbur
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 7:58am

    Anonymous, you needed a parent to discipline you. You are a disgrace to the world and a coward hiding behind your mask.

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 7:53am

    So sorry for the child.

    My father spanked me with his belt right on my little butt when I needed it. He was careful not to hurt me and yet get his message across. I had crossed the line on some familial “line in the sand” and needed that guidance because as he ALWAYS told me, “If I don’t correct you, the policemen will and they don’t love you like we love you.” And, he ALWAYS said, “This hurts me more than it does you.”

    He was right. His discipline kept me in line and helped me grow up well.

    The young woman in this video is NOT being disciplined. She is being beaten. I pray she gets the help she needs to heal from the inside out.

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 7:12pm

      Sorry Grandma, but the girl is being beaten, but that beating IS discipline. It may not be good discipline. Neither you nor I may like the way it is handled, but that doesn’t give us the right to declare it abuse and rob the father of his parental authority, even if we think he is abusing it.

      Unless I have seen the girl‘s long term behavior toward her parents and their long term behavior in disciplining her I wouln’t even begin to make such snap judgments concerning an incident like that. A belt is hardly an abusive instrument. That’s why is was used so freequently by parents for generations. I find the automatic responce of many here to rewrite history as to what is abusive symptomatic of liberalism.

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  • THE EQUALIZER
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 7:51am

    What a piece of crap. Do this to him and his dirtbag wife.

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  • SamIamTwo
    Posted on November 3, 2011 at 7:47am

    Geez, posting vids for the world to see…most all of us have had bad events happen in our lives that we have had regrets for but to show it to the world on the net? Seriously…the net is intended for that? It’s a cauldron of goats head soup, the net that is. Voyeurism. Living vicariously via the net…

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    • ydaani
      Posted on November 3, 2011 at 6:46pm

      True, I sure wish noone had posted the videos of Nazi detention camps or 9/11 videos because I think people were just getting a vicarious high from them. No lessons to be learned. I hope she doesn’t post any videos of him beating his wife with a belt. Nope, wouldn’t be fair to him

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