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I know people who have struggled to have a child, and your heart aches for them, you know what amazing wonderful parents they would be.

Then there is this utter douchebag – a judge beating the hell out of his disabled daughter with a belt – then coming back to do it a second time. With the collusion of the mother. Damn.

He is bitching now that the daughter, who secretly videoed the ongoing abuse, has ’caused trouble for him’. There are no words i can use in public for the depth of my loathing for people like him. Let us just say i lose my normal live and let live approach and turn old testament about it all.

Those who abuse the powerless, especially their own family, are evil, vile monsters. i can sort of understand snapping once (just) and living with the regret of that, trying to be a better person, but this sick b*st*rd really got into this. Sick doesn’t cover it, actually. And she has a younger sister still living at home, so i can understand her releasing it.

Watching this video breaks my heart. It should break everyone’s heart. And i bet this evil man gets away with it – after all, a Texan judge?

The Internet is blowing up with a video allegedly posted by the daughter of an Aransas County judge that she says shows him beating her.

Someone who says she is the daughter of Judge William Adams posted the 2004 video only recently. The hard-to-take clip shows a man whipping her with a belt because she was downloading music from the net.

“Bend over the fucking bed!!” he screams as he belts her while she tries to squirm away. At another point he threatens to hit her “in your fucking face.”

At another point a woman, who the poster says is her mother, comes in and tells her to bend over “like a 16-year-old and take it.”

via Texas Judge William Adams Allegedly Beating Daughter: Horrifying Video (UPDATED) – Houston News – Hair Balls.

Judge William Adams: Texas Judge Beats Disabled Daughter with Belt for Using Internet (VIDEO) (blippitt.com)
2004 Video Shows Texas Judge Beating Daughter; Judge Says, “Not as Bad as it Looks” (reason.com)
Video Allegedly Depicts Texas Family Court Judge Beating Disabled Daughter (abovethelaw.com)
Video purports to show Texas judge beating daughter (cnn.com)
Disturbing Video Allegedly Shows Texas Judge Beating Daughter; Internet Springs Into Action (mediaite.com)
After Police Investigation Opens, Texas Judge Responds To Beating Video: ‘It’s Not As Bad As It Looks On Tape’ (mediaite.com)

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November 3, 2011

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Subtle beauty that catches the eye…

Musings on motherhood.

I took the youngest two and second daughter (ms 17 going on omg 18) + adopted extra daughter to get their general winter we have grown so much clothes – and her formal dress.

Ms 17 etc tends to prefer boy clothes. So i was intrigued to see what would catch her eye. She got a dress that is reminiscent of a grecian style, in black, with some sparkle in places. She is the one that could have been a model — she has that rare subtle beauty that catches the eye, and pulls at the heart. She has a mind of sharpness and brightness, and a presence that sparkles so brightly, or dims the room, depending on mood. She tried on the dress, and oh, there is that moment of exhalation at this beautiful young woman transformed from the sloppy teenager you knew…

My third daughter is nearly 16. She is doign work experience, and she invited me for lunch. I had lunch with my baby at work. She has incredible green eyes, and a pure soul that shines out. She has one of those faces that is so sweet, that you look at her for a while, and it hits you with a jolt that a rare and amazing intelligence is looking back at you, and she is beautiful to look at, and someday, someone will notice it and sweep her away. It is odd to see that in your children, and a source of wonder.

They all do. I remember, as a teen, the moment that i accepted i was not one of the pretty ones – but i was smart, and i preferred that. Somehow, i had five amazing people that are both beautiful and smart – and in multiple ways. Nothing is skin deep with this lot. All so terribly individual, strong characters, and yet warm and vulnerable – there is nothing so scary and painful as the acknowledgement i cannot protect them from the pain they need to find growing up, of love and its sting, of friendship and loss, of life and lessons learnt.

They all have that subtle beauty. It is just, under that, is something even more precious and beautiful – for those who seek.