Judge Under Investigation After Daughter Posted Beating On YouTube [Video]

Texas judge William Adams is under hot water and part of a police investigation after his daughter posted a video of a severe beating he gave her in 2004.

In the seven minute clip HIllary Adams is spanked hard and repeatedly with her fathers belt.

Speaking about her decision to finally release the video she told KRIS TV:

“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,”

In response to her statement her father who is an Aransas County Court Judge said:

“It happened years ago…. I apologized.” while adding, “It’s not as bad as it looks on tape.”

Her father was beating her for allegedly downloading music off the internet and in the text accompanying the video she wrote:

“She has had ataxic cerebral palsy from birth that led her to a passion for technology, which was strictly forbidden by her father’s backwards views.”

The video has received more than 600,000 views on various YouTube channels after it was posted on Reddit, a social bookmarking community with a long history for provided a “protective” aspect against social wrongs.

Here’s the video, just be warned it’s rather brutal:

Do you think her father should be punished for what he did to his daughter?

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