A video that claims to show a judge beating his daughter with what looks like a leather belt for downloading games off the Internet has gone viral, in an apparent effort by the victim to ruin her abusive father's chances for re-election.
The video is difficult to watch: Judge William Adams of Rockport, Texas, is allegedly heard verbally abusing and repeatedly whipping Hillary, his 16-year-old daughter, with what appears to be a leather belt, throwing her onto her bed and grabbing her before whipping her again.
The man believed to be Adams can be heard yelling, "Bend over the [expletive] bed. Lay down or I'll smack you in the [expletive] face!"
"That's enough!" the daughter pleads, but Adams throws her back on the bed and beats her again, pausing to breathe before continuing what many have described as physical abuse.
"Didn't I tell you to take that [expletive] thing off your computer?" Adams says, before a woman believed to be his wife enters the room and takes the belt from her husband.
"You turn over," she tells her daughter. "You turn over like a 16-year-old and take it!"
Adams and his wife then take turns physically and verbally attacking their daughter for several minutes. However, the woman can be seen taking the belt from Adams who repeatedly tries to reclaim it. Judge Adams eventually leaves the room and returns with a different belt.
"That's what it's come to," Adams says at the end of the beating. "That's what it's come to."
The video was uploaded by Adams' daughter and has been picked up by several news websites around the world after gaining notoriety on Reddit.com with a thread titled "Family law judge beats own daughter for using the internet, please spread."
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