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Texas Judge beats daughter

A very disturbing video broke about a Texas family court Judge who beat his daughter. The video was released by his daughter (good for her!)

The video is very disturbing so you may not want to watch.

The judge's response to the video:

"In my mind, I haven't done anything wrong other than discipline my child after she was caught stealing," Adams said. "And I did lose my temper, but I've since apologised."



Call me liberal but this guys a classic asshole and the absolute last profession he should be in is that of a judge.

From a PR perspective he's shot himself in the foot. It's one thing if there was no video, but this video is plastered all over YouTube.

What he should have done is come right out and said his behavior was flat out wrong and that he regrets it deeply and is deeply sorry that he put his daughter through that. And in addition, he would seek to work with family abuse charities to help further shed light on the issue of  abuse in the home. Even that probably wouldn't be enough to reverse the negative public sentiment towards him, but it's the best you can do in this situation.

I think he's up a creak without a paddle on this one. I know if I bumped in to this guy on the street I'd probably cold-cock him right there and then (and I'm not an advocate of violence).

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