TX - judge Bill Adams on video physically abusing his daughter

[Joe Friday]

Mine did as well. All night long I kept having visions of things I had forgotten about.
Also, hope I dont get in trouble for posting this but there is a FB page dedicated to making sure this man becomes job-less. I think it has around 20 thousand likes in less than 24 hrs.

You will be in my thoughts today.

Anyone have the link to the FB page?

 

[erynne936]

Anyone have the link to the FB page?

I think this is it:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dont-Re-Elect-Judge-William-Adams/217089511694481

 

[NoraEltrain]

I made it through the whole video.

I don't know how.

I feel so much for that girl. I hope she gets her wish and her father is disbarred and jailed.

 

[21merc7]

I have not read this entire thread because I can't.

I have thought about it. This is not the worst beating I have seen, or endured. Not the worst for many.

I am oddly happy that she was fore-thinking enough and had the ability to film it. What trouble did this cause her at the time? I don't know. I didn't get past the video. I hope she remained with a parent and not foster care, or if foster care, I hope she was one of the very few that are fortunate.

I always wished to be removed from my home as a small child, and until I moved out as a teen. I am happy I was not now that I know what foster care is like. It may have been worse.

This young lady may have been like me and many others, but not all. You know in your heart that the abuse is wrong, but it is all that you know, all that you are taught. You think there is no reason but their own thoughts. And that is the only reason. The parents thoughts, past, present. It is not you, the child. She is fortunate in this innate knowledge.

I only ask from her, now that it is public, that she join or start a campaign and help system for abused children and her mother can join one for abusive parents. A way that children can reach out without fear. Without more abuse for reaching out, yes that is what I received.

I hope there is more awareness and more ways to seek help, confidential, the parents need not know, and in the case of the abusive parents the neighbors need not know. Someone please start something with the right background behind it, organizations with therapists, safe houses, anything. But keep the promise to the child that the parents will never find out and hurt them again. It cannot be broken, they will never reach out again.

 

[JeannaT]

He has now given a statement, on CNN. What he is saying may very well be true, that she is just now posting this video she's held for 7 years, out of spite that he will no longer support her lavishly and pay for her luxury car, and she has stated to him that he will live to regret that.

Checkmate, Dad. Revenge is a dish best served cold.

I don't see how that makes a bit of difference.

I think what we're dealing with here, is a man who should not be able to preside over family court cases. To have become so enraged about a 16 year old girl (whose concern, at the end, it seemed was being able to wake up in time for school) who had downloaded "pirated" videos from a site on the internet. He seemed, at that point, capable of murdering her for that.

And although she holds her mother blameless, I think her mother is 100% as much to blame. Siding with the monster. I guess though honestly she might fall under "Stockholm syndrome" - I'm just sickened by her voice on the video, agreeing with him.

I hope at the very very least he will lose his judgeship and never ever again be allowed to be in a supervisory position with human beings. Note on the video (don't watch it if you haven't already) there is a much smaller girl - who is probably still a minor - in the home.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/03/justice/texas-video-beating/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

 

[JeannaT]

I have not read this entire thread because I can't.

I have thought about it. This is not the worst beating I have seen, or endured. Not the worst for many.

I am oddly happy that she was fore-thinking enough and had the ability to film it. What trouble did this cause her at the time? I don't know. I didn't get past the video. I hope she remained with a parent and not foster care, or if foster care, I hope she was one of the very few that are fortunate.

I always wished to be removed from my home as a small child, and until I moved out as a teen. I am happy I was not now that I know what foster care is like. It may have been worse.

This young lady may have been like me and many others, but not all. You know in your heart that the abuse is wrong, but it is all that you know, all that you are taught. You think there is no reason but their own thoughts. And that is the only reason. The parents thoughts, past, present. It is not you, the child. She is fortunate in this innate knowledge.

I only ask from her, now that it is public, that she join or start a campaign and help system for abused children and her mother can join one for abusive parents. A way that children can reach out without fear. Without more abuse for reaching out, yes that is what I received.

I hope there is more awareness and more ways to seek help, confidential, the parents need not know, and in the case of the abusive parents the neighbors need not know. Someone please start something with the right background behind it, organizations with therapists, safe houses, anything. But keep the promise to the child that the parents will never find out and hurt them again. It cannot be broken, they will never reach out again.

I agree with you, this is completely not the worst beating any of us have ever seen on video.

But this is the worst beating I could ever imagine, though, coming from a judge who presides over child abuse cases in court.

I have to wonder - how many abusers did he sympathize with, and the children went away shaking their heads in disbelief only to be abused again?

Merc, I'm sorry for what you must have endured.

 

[21merc7]

Judges are just people too. Closed doors are what only family knows.

 

[JeannaT]

Judges are just people too. Closed doors are what only family knows.

I don't think a judge, who is in charge of judging other parent's possible abuse in family court, should be himself such a horrific abuser.

It's not like hiring an accountant or a plumber who is an abuser. This is a man who abused his daughter, who also is in charge of placing children back in the hands of their parents who may share his same behavior.

I almost always agree with you, merc, and I'm curious about this last post of yours. Judges ARE people too, but the fact that he's a child abuser, and he presides over child abusers, it makes me feel so hopeless for the kids who have come before his court.

When you say it's only what family knows, I honestly believe he's thrown other children under the bus, all the years he's been a judge, based on his parenting behavior. So it's not behind closed doors - my guess is families in his court have been seriously harmed. I will be interested to see who comes forward after this, who has been damaged by his judgements.

At this point, do all the cases he presided over need a review? I say yes.

 

[Melanie]

I just heard on the radio that he's in hiding after recieving death threats

warms my heart.

GOOD! He's nothing more than a terrorist and should be treated as such.

good luck dude - the world is watching!

Mel

 

[CarmelEyesD]

Nancy Grace is all over it.

 

[Melanie]

Judges are just people too. Closed doors are what only family knows.

I'm confoosed? He beat her 17 times with a belt. He's a Texas Judge who has presided over child abuse cases. I can't reconcile that.

He should be removed from the bench stat IMHO.

MOO

Mel

 

[JeannaT]

So sad. On this news video she seems remorseful for posting that online (HELLO GIRL, look at your video and recognize that as abuse) and he's denying it was abuse (I guess he'll say a teenager downloading videos is so horrific she should be beaten), and a fellow judge who looks sad and remorseful that no one knew.

Lots of pain, all the way around. I really hope this guy serves time. Arrogant ***.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2011/11/03/pkg-tx-daughter-beating.cnn

 

[Missy70Texas]

Judges are just people too. Closed doors are what only family knows.

Even if he wasn't a Judge he should not be beating his child like this, his DISABLED child! To bad he and his wife cannot be prosecuted, they belong in prison. I wouldn't trust that S*B or his wife with a Pit Bull!! That was child abuse at the highest level! A horrendous beating of an innocent child!

 

[JeannaT]

Even if he wasn't a Judge he should not be beating his child like this, his DISABLED child! To bad he and his wife cannot be prosecuted, they belong in prison. I wouldn't trust that S*B or his wife with a Pit Bull!! That was child abuse at the highest level! A horrendous beating of an innocent child!

I agree with what you say, except "disabled". I'm not quite sure where the media has gotten "disabled" from - she looks perfectly normal then, and now.

Anyway, prayers he is off the bench - and faces criminal charges.

 

[CarmelEyesD]

The girl has ataxic cerebral palsy.

 

[katydid23]

On NG she just said that the 'father' made a statement saying that the only reason she released this video is because he cut her off financially.

She has cerebral palsy. He is a wealthy judge. AND HE CUT HER OFF FINANCIALLY? What a . We already knew he was a , but now we know he is a cheap as well.

 

[katydid23]

I agree with what you say, except "disabled". I'm not quite sure where the media has gotten "disabled" from - she looks perfectly normal then, and now.

Anyway, prayers he is off the bench - and faces criminal charges.

She has cerebral palsy. Some one can look perfectly healthy and still have debilitating effects from that horrible disease.

 

[HRCODEPINK]

He has now given a statement, on CNN. What he is saying may very well be true, that she is just now posting this video she's held for 7 years, out of spite that he will no longer support her lavishly and pay for her luxury car, and she has stated to him that he will live to regret that.

Checkmate, Dad. Revenge is a dish best served cold.

I don't see how that makes a bit of difference.

Respectfully snipped for space and relevance.

I have to agree with you here and I could not possible care less what her reasoning for releasing it was. The fact that it was possible for this tape to even come into existence is all that matters to me. As someone who believes in non-violence at all costs, I must admit that this guy is testing my beliefs.

 

[HMSHood]

I just heard on the radio that he's in hiding after recieving death threats

warms my heart.

Bill Adams got friends in low places. Cough! Casey Anthony! Cough! Osama bin Laden! Cough! Lori Drew! Cough! Fred Phelps!

 

[raeann]

I agree with what you say, except "disabled". I'm not quite sure where the media has gotten "disabled" from - she looks perfectly normal then, and now.

Anyway, prayers he is off the bench - and faces criminal charges.

Her form of cerebral palsy affects the muscle control and coordination in her arms and legs......the areas that he was hitting with a belt! NOT that he should have hit her anywhere but it just compounds the horror and probably the pain she felt was more than we can even imagine.

jmo