Texas Judge Will Not Be Charged for Severely Beating His Daughter

[DracoSuave]

the guy probably had connections or the US justice system is more backwards then people have thought.

He has as much connections as anyone else has, considering it was on statute of limitations.
The article even has the people acknowledge that he committed a crime, but the law is a law is a law, no matter how stupid it is.

the statue of limitations is set up because people forget things and crime scenes change since this is video evidence it shouldn't apply to this.

It also forces investigative agencies to investigate cases swiftly, thus helping to prevent persecutorial prosecution.

There's a LOT of reason behind it outside of evidentiary deterioration.

But yes, this will cause a politcal shitstorm, which is also important.

 

[Sixties Spidey]

I don't give a fuck if it passed the five year limit. He should still be charged for what he did. Preferably with the death penalty, as bass-ackwards incestuous hick fucks like him do not deserve the right to breathe, let alone breed.

Good God, man, listen to yourself. He beat his daughter; you called him a "hick fuck," and said that all such people need to be executed and prevented from breeding. Who's the "hick fuck" here, again?

Edit: Or am I the only one who sees the irony that the issue here is that this man employed corporal punishment, and in turn, you're trying to escalate to capital punishment?

I'm sorry, what I saw wasn't a beating. It was child abuse. Call it black and white all you want, but speaking as someone who was beaten a fair bit as a child if he lied or did something REALLY bad, I know the difference between a beating and child abuse, and what this Judge Asshole did was BEAT HIS PARALYZED DAUGHTER WHILE VERBALLY ABUSING HER.

Last time I checked, that's child abuse. If he can still sleep soundly at night knowing he dealt emotional, physical and psychological pain to his daughter, justify it to himself, and say "Oh, it's not as bad as it looks.", he's essentially a "hick fuck". And don't give me this "He only wants what's best for his daughter." shit. If he cared one bit, he would never have beaten his daughter that savagely and never have resorted to calling her nasty names.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I don't give a fuck if it passed the five year limit. He should still be charged for what he did. Preferably with the death penalty, as bass-ackwards incestuous hick fucks like him do not deserve the right to breathe, let alone breed.

Good God, man, listen to yourself. He beat his daughter; you called him a "hick fuck," and said that all such people need to be executed and prevented from breeding. Who's the "hick fuck" here, again?

Edit: Or am I the only one who sees the irony that the issue here is that this man employed corporal punishment, and in turn, you're trying to escalate to capital punishment?

I'm sorry, what I saw wasn't a beating. It was child abuse. Call it black and white all you want, but speaking as someone who was beaten a fair bit as a child if he lied or did something REALLY bad, I know the difference between a beating and child abuse, and what this Judge Asshole did was BEAT HIS PARALYZED DAUGHTER WHILE VERBALLY ABUSING HER.

Last time I checked, that's child abuse. If he can still sleep soundly at night knowing he dealt emotional, physical and psychological pain to his daughter, justify it to himself, and say "Oh, it's not as bad as it looks.", he's essentially a "hick fuck". And don't give me this "He only wants what's best for his daughter." shit. If he cared one bit, he would never have beaten his daughter that savagely and never have resorted to calling her nasty names.

You'll notice I said "beating," not "spanking." In what world is a beating not child abuse? Also, in what world does it make sense to consider the God damned death penalty an appropriate punishment for child abuse? All that does is perpetuate the cycle of violence that we should be trying to break. You want something that makes you a "hick fuck," try supporting the death penalty. Because I can guarantee you, that much is something you share with Judge Adams.

 

[Sixties Spidey]

I don't give a fuck if it passed the five year limit. He should still be charged for what he did. Preferably with the death penalty, as bass-ackwards incestuous hick fucks like him do not deserve the right to breathe, let alone breed.

Good God, man, listen to yourself. He beat his daughter; you called him a "hick fuck," and said that all such people need to be executed and prevented from breeding. Who's the "hick fuck" here, again?

Edit: Or am I the only one who sees the irony that the issue here is that this man employed corporal punishment, and in turn, you're trying to escalate to capital punishment?

I'm sorry, what I saw wasn't a beating. It was child abuse. Call it black and white all you want, but speaking as someone who was beaten a fair bit as a child if he lied or did something REALLY bad, I know the difference between a beating and child abuse, and what this Judge Asshole did was BEAT HIS PARALYZED DAUGHTER WHILE VERBALLY ABUSING HER.

Last time I checked, that's child abuse. If he can still sleep soundly at night knowing he dealt emotional, physical and psychological pain to his daughter, justify it to himself, and say "Oh, it's not as bad as it looks.", he's essentially a "hick fuck". And don't give me this "He only wants what's best for his daughter." shit. If he cared one bit, he would never have beaten his daughter that savagely and never have resorted to calling her nasty names.

You'll notice I said "beating," not "spanking." In what world is a beating not child abuse? Also, in what world does it make sense to consider the God damned death penalty an appropriate punishment for child abuse? All that does is perpetuate the cycle of violence that we should be trying to break. You want something that makes you a "hick fuck," try supporting the death penalty. Because I can guarantee you, that much is something you share with Judge Adams.

Alright, fine. Maybe the death penalty is a bit too harsh, but I want to see this man punished. At the very least throw him in jail or something. I just hate seeing someone get abused, and I want things for his daughter to get better. Now that you put it in that light, I see where you're coming from and I see where I'm wrong. At least I can rest easy knowing that karma will bite him hard in the ass one of these days.

 

[Josh123914]

I really don't see what the problem is, I think the father was in the right. His daughter was downloading music and games illegally and she should've known better. When your father is a judge, you don't do anything illegal, especially when you're that young. It not only reflect poorly on the child, it reflects poorly on the parents. Corporal punishment, in my opinion, is much better than criminal charges of any kind. I'm tired of people thinking that a little physical punishment is child abuse. I'm not unreasonable, there is a point when enough is enough, but from what I saw in that video, that wasn't excessive. I've been beaten by my parents, I'm sure most people have, and I deserved every one of those beatings. It was those experiences that shaped me into who I am and I'm a better person for it. I think people are blowing this way out of proportion.

actually from what I've heard she was downloading a game (or music) that she couldn't buy legally where she lived because no one sold it there (think a game from Japan that doesn't come out for 4 months, or doesn't come out at all)

 

[BabyRaptor]

It's Texas.

He probably stood up somewhere, said something about God, country and guns and walked away clean.

I spent most of my life there...There are some good people still stuck there, but it's mostly hopeless.

 

[SageRuffin]

...I don't think a trial is what she desires because if so she could just have uploaded it a day, week, month or even a year later and he'd still have been up against a pretty darn good piece of evidence. To release it now looks to me more or less like late revenge by ruining his reputation.

I read this story on MSN while I was at work yesterday. That's exactly what it was - the daughter's trying to soil his chances of re-election (even though, from what I've read, it's not coming up for another couple of years).

 

[RagTagBand]

Woohoo! Go statute of limitations! The single most pointless, retarded and immoral legal loophole I have ever encountered.

 

[Quaxar]

If you honestly believe what the judge did to his daughter is equal to slapping a child then I think this discussion is over.

I didn't claim that. I'm just stating that "physical abuse" is a wide area. Rape and murder are easily defined but that's not as easy for something that, on Wikipedia, includes both "non-consensual tickling" and "throwing acid in the face".

Again, I didn't say anything concerning that specific case. I just try to explain why there's a statue of limitations for this case. Though she could still go to court if she just can report one beating that's in the limitation period so it's not like the law doesn't care at all...

But yeah. I still don't think that's her point.

 

[AnarchistFish]

What do you mean to much time has passed? That's fucking bullshit. This sort of "statute" doesn't apply to rape cases, why should it apply to those pertaining to physical abuse?

This^^

I don't see why it matters that that amount of time as passed. What justification is there for it?

 

[Scarim Coral]

"because too much time has elapsed"

Is he still a deadbeat father who STILL beat up his disable daughter? Most likely yes. Since when did crime had a expiry date? (Ok one or two crime incident would have a date but not for this).

 

[Quaxar]

Just because somebody beats his kids/spouse/dog does not make him a sociopathic psychopath.

Yes it does. Beating someone who doesn't fight back repeatedly takes a great many built in barriers to overcome. Barriers both social and from human instinct. I'm no stranger to anger over things, I'm not even a stranger to violence from that anger unfortunately. I've even felt a desire to beat someone untill dead (finding out someone sexually abused his daughter for years will do that to you), but something that is impossible is to commit violence against someone defenseless for a prolonged period of time.

Especially when it's your own child. Someone beating their child is putting aside the instincts regarding our children, the social norm of not beating children, the rationality that beating doesn't help, and the general instinct not to harm other people especially not defenseless ones.

Someone who is capable of that is dangerous, and has serious problems. I'd never turn my back towards someone I know is capable of such violence.

Au contrair, I believe we have a different definition of sociopathy. The American Psychiatric Association defines it as someone who "[...] regularly disregard and violate the rights of others. These behaviors may be aggressive or destructive and may involve breaking laws or rules, deceit or theft." and while he certainly did break a law and violated his daughter's right of not beating her this is not what you'd generally call sociopathic.

I oppose your statement and would go so far as to say beating somebody who can't fight back is easy. Because you don't have to fear retaliation it is a simple way of feeling superior if, for example, you feel like you have no control over your own life.
There is also the possibility of a 'pro-strict' upbringing by his own parents leading to him believing it to be a fine solution. Just consider the 1900s where it was perfectly acceptable ti beat your kids if they misbehaved. The surrounding does make a big impression.
And, I may get rebuke for this, but a religious upbringing may provoke such behaviour too. This is Texas after all.

Yes, there are people who beat their kids out of pure fun or because they're drunk and what not but there are more than enough who are just under the impression that they are doing them a favor by being stric because kids need to be protected from certain stuff (such as the internet in this case), by physical punishment if not else possible.

I'm not saying this is alright or I would even do it myself... I just want to state that there is a big amount of people who do it purely out of best intention for their kids. And really, this is not psychopathic. It's a bad upbringing, a bad social environment or due to psychological problems but not deeds of a psychopath.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

*Twitch* Excuse me a moment...

(Goes off to scream obscenities)

Aaand, I'm back. What did I miss?

 

[Smagmuck_]

As someone who has family relatives in Texas.

For all of you people condemning Texas over an isolated incident, you're all being majorly hypocritical. Texas isn't some backwards hick state, a good majority of the population is Hispanic. Just because it has one or two hundred racists in it's mix doesn't make an entire state of MILLIONS a bunch of "LOL MUSLIMZ/MESSICANS/BLACKZ R BAD."

For fucks sake, the lot of you hear defend everything under the sun with "It's an isolated incident not everyone's like that here." And here pops up some attention whoreFace it, she is one, she wouldn't have posted it otherwise. crucifying her (Admittedly Old-Fashion) father giving her a belt for doing something illegal in a Man of Law's house. He's going to uphold the law, and he's going to be even stricter about it in his own God damned home where what he says goes.

I grew up in a similar home (albeit bit better constructed) where if I crossed the Law, I'd get the belt. Anything else was Isolation in my Bedroom. God for-fucking-bid someone enacts some discipline on their child. Not to mention she probably just fucked over her own parents financially, socially, and publicly. It worries me that the Escapist Community is becoming so blindly Libertarian since OWS popped up. Hell, I LOVE Texas, since it's a state where I can kill a group of thugs trying to steal my or others property/family with out legal repercussion unlike otherCalifornia, a man can't defend his own home without being sued for it. States. How else do you think it was able to function as its own Country before being accepted into the union? On behalf of members of my family in Texas...

<spoiler=Unrelenting State Pride Rage>FUCK YEAH, TEXASTo the Folks living in Texas and hating it, no one's forcing you to live there...


*Prepares for Libertarian Flaming*

 

[TBman]

truly tragic, did she ever say why she waited so long to post the video?