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Not only should that man not be re-elected, he should be jailed. How anyone could beat another human being that way is beyond my comprehension.
http://ninanerdface.wordpress.com/tag/wi…
Seriously? Motherfucker, you beat your physically disabled daughter with a belt and screamed things at her that for all my pottymouthed ways I would never inflict on ANYONE I loved. You are unfit to be a judge or a parent, and I'll be damned if I ever would want anyone like you living anywhere near anyone I cared about. Fuck, I don't even classify you as a human being.
And ya know what? I"m pretty goddamned pissed off that I can't "un-see" that because it's gonna fuck my day off way up, you sonofabitch.
I was 'paddled' like that when I was a boy. By a parent and by a teacher. Belts, paddles, boards.
I used to tell myself that I survived to be a reasonable adult, I guess it wasn't that awful - was it?
This video brought me right back to it - and it makes me feel sick to remember it, the hurt of having a parent beat on you like that... and to imagine ever doing it to my own.
Holy shit.
http://www.free-press-release.com/news-c…
How is this a "hetero" issue?
You Fanboys and Faghags should really stage an intervention to get Danny some help......
FUCK !
..words fail me..
It worries me that this motherfucker will get re-elected anyway because 1. it's Texas; and 2. no one pays attention to judge races.
How would YOU like to get whipped by someone twice your size, you fucking disgusting piece of shit? I bet he pisses his pants when confronted by an adult. Cowardly motherfucker.
Interesting that the person who posted the video (allegedly the daughter) takes great pains to say that the monther was abused and should be held blameless, but that's certainly not how it reads in the video. yikes.
all over some computer games...FFS.
My dad beat me my whole life until I was 16 and I finally snapped and fought back.
You may not be as big as your abuser, but that's ok. Get a frying pan or a baseball bat or a broom handle. Wait in a room and when they come in to attack you beat the living shit out of them. Channel all your anger and rage and fight back. Don't kill them, but beat them until you can see they're scared, as scared as you have been.
Then tell them if they ever raise their hand to you again you will not stop next time.
And for anyone who would tell me this is bad advice; fuck you. You think calling the police is a better solution? The police got called out to my house more times than I can count. You think talking to counsellors is a better solution? I did that throughout my life.
The only thing that made it stop was fighting back, and that's what I would advise anyone being abused to do.
http://www.kristv.com/full-coverage/judg…
the guy admits it's him, totally brushes it off as an overreaction. Dick.
The girl is now 23, sounds like she and her mother are both still under the thrall of this jerk, even though the parents are divorced. I hope Hillary can get help and cut this guy out of her life completely.
I hope this video results in more of the same from other abused kids seeking help.
And to everyone who has been the victim of something like this - I'm so sorry. I know most of you will use that experience to be better people and parents, but sadly, this is exactly the kind of thing that turns some kids into future child beaters.
Judge Adams also stated: (the video) "it looks worse than it is"
This sadist, up for reelection as a FAMILY LAW judge, doesn't get it: it is HIS life that's difficult! Oh Boo-hoo!
Prison Rape - Not as bad as it looks on tape
http://www.kristv.com/videos/judge-adams…
Having experienced this is exactly what inspired me to work with individuals in domestic violence situations. To use a common phrase, abuse is a cycle and it moves through generations. The last statistics I've seen approximated that a male child subject to this abuse had the greater chance (~50-70%) of abusing the next generation and a female child (~30-50%) chance. Another unfortunate consequence is that abuse increases the chances of the child growing up and entering into an abusive relationship(s), with the female child being more likely. Anecdotally I found that true in the groups I facilitated, most of the victims had been abused as children and found themselves attracted to abusers.
This young woman has a bright future ahead of her. I hope she knows this. She just has to desire to live a better and more compassionate life, which may or may not include professional help.
Take care.
Knowing now that the girl had CP, etc., also reminds me that - for many overly strict by-the-book disciplinarians (read: abusers) - there is NO reprieve for disability or developmental differences, because for them all ANY child needs is a good beating to get the lesson across. And her (ugh) father's attitude (described in the second link) illustrates this point perfectly: I weep for yet another child who deserved to have real loving parents with some display of intelligence.
While my parents have never beaten me with a belt or threatened to turn me out of the house, I have a much too clear idea of what it must have felt like to be Hillary that night. Beating a child is beating a child, doesn't matter whether it's done with belts or hands and whether that kid is 10 or 16. I'm truly sorry to hear that Hillary's father continues to treat her abusively and wish her all the best. She deserves better than him.
It is this self-centered shitdribble's totally earnest self-justification and blaming of his daughter that sooo boils my blood. But hey, I spent the first wenty years of my life "victimizing" my mother, so who am I to talk.
Aransas County Judge C. H. "Burt" Mills, Jr., 361-790-0100
Drop him a line and tell him what you think of the hillbilly sadist he employs
I hope that girl does whatever she needs to do (counseling, moving across the country, etc) to get far away from that monster and build the life she deserves for herself!
on the site, everyone says that this amount of corporal punishment is way overboard, obviously. That's not surprising: the interesting part is that people claim that variable amounts of spanking is "ok" and not overboard, and the reason they cite is that that's *the amount that was normal in their family*.
I couldn't watch beyond a minute in. I could see in the father's stance it was all about sex and power. He was angry because she wasn't displaying the humiliating and high sexual pose he wanted her to assume. I didn't watch long enough to see the Mother but from the sound of it she's use to these beatings on her.
Best of luck to the daughter. It's going to take time and major therapy to get over an upbringing like this. I know. I'm 32 and I still have an aversion to being touched even by friends or my partner. I'm slowly getting better but it's a long road.
The father stole more than his daughter's dignity, he stole her future from her. Jackass. Prison is to good for him.
This is why I'm not a public servant. There are some folks I just couldn't make myself "serve".
He's up for re-election in three years and UTTERLY unrepentant:
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/03/justic…
The wife does seem to be trying to make it "easier" for the kid, within the confines of the hysterical sadism --- taking the belt from him, asking her to lie down so she can spank her on the bottom (which is much better than what she's getting from Judge Maniac).
This was pretty common for me and my siblings growing up. Like @54, I didn't want to bend over either. It was just...I dunno. Something about bending over felt like it was more about humiliation than punishment. So instead, I'd get hit with a belt/ruler/"hickory switch"/shoe or whatever on the calves, hips, arms, ribs, back, etc. My mother's aim wasn't that good. And it wasn't just when I was a little kid either. This was up until I was about 16 or 17. Until I dropped out of school and moved out. I also live in Texas. Here, as long as nobody draws blood or breaks bones or uses a closed fist, nobody really considers it abuse. My mom never swore at me like that though. She is a "good Christian" woman, and thinks God would find it offensive.
Some of the other things she did included taking my door off the hinges and locking it in the garage, so I'd have no privacy. She nailed all my windows shut once. She often read my journals, and if she didn't like what they said, she'd burn them, along with my "offensive" music and artwork.
I think the most upsetting and ironic thing she ever did was slamming me into a doorway, grabbing my wrist until I bruised, and yelling (only two inches from my face) that "we don't hit people in this family!" This was in response to me throwing a hairbrush at my brother's head. He called me a fat bitch, so I chunked a hair brush at him and nailed him on the chin. My aim was much better than my mother's.
At least the judge had the good sense not to say that.
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Hello, sad dysfunction.
@35 decent advice if your attacker is simply a repeat/gen-cycle abuser. If he's simply getting off on pain though, if he's really warped about violence (mean to animals, ex-vet, substance abuser =clues), you're throwing gas on the fire by fighting back (esp. if you don't have the physical/martial arts ability to guarantee success, which most kids don't). I've got scars to prove it. i.e. Sometimes discretion > valor.
@53 - I wonder if these families could learn a lot from rumspringa?
@42 lol thanks for the laugh on "prison rape: not as bad as it looks on tape". Let's all hope the Judge gets to test that..
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Spanking of any sort = evil. It isn't acceptable-if-done-a-certain-way, it isn't "christian" (or human) at all. WRATH of any sort is still a sin. Shame on him and all abusers.
To address your other points, let's assume for a moment that she did whatever she did on the computer intentionally knowing she would be beaten. First off, the punishment for downloading any program or song is nowhere near as severe at what that sick fuck meted out. Secondly, abuse like this isn't a one time thing. For this one time we have video evidence, there are many more that weren't recorded. She knew she was going to be beaten again, and again regardless of what she did, so she may have instigated it this time so that the abuse would occur on her terms. If that is the case, then I would say that not only did she do nothing wrong, but she actually showed extreme strength and courage in her actions.
He has zero responsibility for his own behavior? His language offends you more than the full-strength belt beating he administered?
Let me give you a hint: If she did set this up with the camera, planned insubordination, and entrapped him, it's because she knew what would happen. The only way she could have known what would happen is if it had happened before. In a predictable, patterned way.
What would be a reasoned adult response to computer violations? Remove the computer. What does a beating have to do with computer usage? Nothing; it’s for him to show how much power he’s got over her. And as a 16-year-old adolescent, she was already running low in the power game.
What if she had baited him to trap him on the camera? He couldn’t have been baited to whip her if that was never a device he used. If he used reason and creativity to parent, he would have found a better way to discipline and the video would only show him talking to his daughter, not screaming at her.
That aside, it's irrelevant what the outcome would have been if she had just "said she was sorry and taken a few hits on the ass" (ew) because what followed when she didn't was abuse. There's no excuse for that; her refusal to consent to being beaten does not justify it.
what percentage of people born before 1990 endured a beating or two like that? 50%? 90%?
In many countries, parents expect teachers to beat kids who perform poorly.
This is the worldwide norm.
It might wrong, counter-productive, etc. But that doesn't make the perpetrator a sicko.