i_am_the_swammi Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 I know different parts of the world (heck, even our country) have differing views on disciplining a child. Not sure what the standard is for crossing the line, but this seems awfully close to me. I found it very disturbing. FWIW, the father is a County Judge in Texas who routinely presides over cases involving parents and their ability to raise children in safe environments. The 16-year-old daughter in this video taped the encounter because she knew she was in big trouble for....downloading games and music from the internet. I don't know the background....perhaps this is just one of a string of times she disobeyed her parents. Just hard for me to justify the end result seen in the video below. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh 0ne Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 Dude should be taking out behind the woodshed, beat with a f*cking belt, then shot in the f*cking head. JMHO of course. What a worthless POS that guy is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caveman_Nick Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 Disturbing to be sure. However you feel about spanking (not judging...I think it has it's place), this is not a spanking. It's a beating. Not right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaterMan Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 Seems he enjoys it and made rulings to make sure other kids get beat as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_am_the_swammi Posted November 3, 2011 Author Share Posted November 3, 2011 What I found equally as bad was that his wife came in for her turn to beat her as well, yelling at her to "roll over on your stomach and take the beating like a woman". Is it so common a practice in some parts of the country that even the wife had no problem with it? I was spanked as a child when I did something seriously bad, but never beaten with a belt...though I know some of my friends were. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Beatings Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 That was not a spanking. That was flat out physical abuse. I would LOVE to have 15 minutes alone with that piece of crap! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Irish Doggy Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 The rage I feel when I see stuff like that... Judge or no, just execute the motherf&cker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt770 Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 What I found equally as bad was that his wife came in for her turn to beat her as well, yelling at her to "roll over on your stomach and take the beating like a woman". Is it so common a practice in some parts of the country that even the wife had no problem with it? I was spanked as a child when I did something seriously bad, but never beaten with a belt...though I know some of my friends were. There's a reason these two f*cking pieces of sh*t found each other in the first place. Just perpetuating dysfunctional behavior and sheer ignorance likely passed down from both of their parents and their parents before them. Even when someone doesn't know any better, it's hard not to get really angry watching this. Couldn't even finish watching the video and I have no words except I'd like to see the same done to both of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
detlef Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 Wow, the case for frontier justice has just been made. Get a freaking rope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Beatings Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 What does he say when he goes back for more? I didn't get my licks in or I didn't get my left hand Either way, what a pathetic excuse to go back in and dish out even more abuse on top of the first wave. Not to mention to emotional abuse he was pouring on top of the physical abuse as he was swearing at her: "You don't deserve to burritoing be in this house!" "I ought to just keep beating you and beating you!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_am_the_swammi Posted November 3, 2011 Author Share Posted November 3, 2011 CNN article on it And here is the father's response to the outcry: In an interview with KZTV outside his Rockport, Texas, home Wednesday, Adams confirmed to a reporter that he was the man beating his daughter with a belt on the video. "She's mad because I've ordered her to bring the car back, in a nutshell, but yeah, that's me. I lost my temper," Adams told the station. "Her mother was there, she wasn't hurt ... it was a long time ago ... I really don't want to get into this right now because as you can see my life's been made very difficult over this child." Adams continued: "In my mind I have not done anything wrong other than discipline my child when she was caught stealing. I did lose my temper, I've apologized. It looks worse than it is." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
detlef Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 What does he say when he goes back for more? I didn't get my licks in or I didn't get my left hand Either way, what a pathetic excuse to go back in and dish out even more abuse on top of the first wave. Not to mention to emotional abuse he was pouring on top of the physical abuse as he was swearing at her: "You don't deserve to burritoing be in this house!" "I ought to just keep beating you and beating you!" Dude, the layers and layers of effed-up-ness of this whole thing is mind boggling. But, yes, the bit about "I didn't get my licks in" stood out to me, among the rest of that horrific episode to be particularly messed up. Which says plenty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chester Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 I have never hit a living creature in my life (well, except for when there's a bat in the house, they deserve it). I would gladly take this guy on, one on one, and even give him the first shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt770 Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 "You don't deserve to burritoing be in this house!" The only truth he spoke, ironically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Footballjoe Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 I don't have access to the vidio at work. Just wondering who took it and posted it. I wonder if Child Protective services was called. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Footballjoe Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 I don't have access to the vidio at work. Just wondering who took it and posted it. I wonder if Child Protective services was called. I just reread the orginal post and saw where the daughter vidio taped it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Beatings Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 It happened 7 years ago when the girl was 16 years old. I'm assuming she has long since moved out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big John Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 Hits too close to me as my father was also like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_am_the_swammi Posted November 3, 2011 Author Share Posted November 3, 2011 It happened 7 years ago when the girl was 16 years old. I'm assuming she has long since moved out. Correct. She taped it knowing it would happen, but was reluctant to do anything with it for fear of what would happen to her (child services, foster home, etc.), and what would happen to her mother and sister at the hands of her father. In the CNN article, she originally also blamed her mother for allowing it to happen, but has since reconciled. The mother and father divorced after 22 years of marriage in 2007, the wife citing his abuse and turning her into an abuser herself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perchoutofwater Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 Disturbing to be sure. However you feel about spanking (not judging...I think it has it's place), this is not a spanking. It's a beating. Not right. +1 I was spanked as a kid and have spanked both of my kids a few times each, but that wasn't a spanking. That was a beating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azazello1313 Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 "those that trouble their own households will inherit the wind" (proverbs 11:29) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliaz Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 There is a huge difference between a spanking and a beating and what that girl is getting is straight up abusive (mental and physical) beating. I give that girl massive props for finally releasing that video. She is 22 now and according to Dr. Drew the fact that she released this video shows that she is activity involved in therapy and making great progress. What disturbs me the most is the mother's involvement in it. Say what we will about fathers but being a mother is something that is far and beyond what we can understand or comprehend as males. We become fathers the moment our kids are born - a mother becomes a mother the moment she becomes pregnant (imo). If I am being honest (and opening myself up to all you tools to jump on me) it has to be an amazing thing to feel a new life grow inside of you. That biological bound that a mother has with a child is something I could never fully understand or appreciate and I've seen some amazing sh*t regarding mother intuition. To see a mother doing this to her own child makes me want to vomit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeR Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 What y'all said. Anyone else think of that little speech by Keanu Reeves in "Parenthood?" I have always thought the "right" to be a parent was a dicey thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbpfan1231 Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 There is a huge difference between a spanking and a beating and what that girl is getting is straight up abusive (mental and physical) beating. I give that girl massive props for finally releasing that video. She is 22 now and according to Dr. Drew the fact that she released this video shows that she is activity involved in therapy and making great progress. What disturbs me the most is the mother's involvement in it. Say what we will about fathers but being a mother is something that is far and beyond what we can understand or comprehend as males. We become fathers the moment our kids are born - a mother becomes a mother the moment she becomes pregnant (imo). If I am being honest (and opening myself up to all you tools to jump on me) it has to be an amazing thing to feel a new life grow inside of you. That biological bound that a mother has with a child is something I could never fully understand or appreciate and I've seen some amazing sh*t regarding mother intuition. To see a mother doing this to her own child makes me want to vomit. Agree 100% with everything said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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