![]() ![]() "And I did lose my temper, but I've since apologized." "In my mind, I haven't done anything wrong other than discipline my child after she was caught stealing," Adams said. But he said it "looks worse than it is" and that he doesn't expect to be disciplined. A neighbor said she saw Adams and his girlfriend packing luggage, a briefcase and rifles into their truck.Ĭorpus Christi television station KZTV caught up with the judge while he was getting into his vehicle Wednesday, and he confirmed it was him in the video. No one answered the door Wednesday at the judge's home, repeated calls to his office rang unanswered and his attorney, William Dudley, did not respond to phone messages seeking comment. William Adams has been receiving threatening phone calls and faxes at the courthouse since the video went online, Aransas County Sheriff Bill Mills said. Police in Rockport, where the 51-year-old judge lives, opened an investigation Wednesday after receiving calls from several concerned citizens, Police Chief Tim Jayroe said. ![]() The judge did not return an AP reporter's call seeking comment early Thursday. In the same interview, Hallie Adams blamed her ex-husband's bouts of violence on his "addiction," calling it a "family secret." She did not elaborate. "It did happen regularly for a period of time," she told NBC's "Today" show on Thursday. "He's supposed to be a judge who exercises fit judgment," she said.Īnd she said the videoed attack was not a one-off. But so many people are also telling me I did the right thing," she told The Associated Press outside her mother's home in the Gulf Coast town of Portland, near Corpus Christi. "I'm experiencing some regret because I just pulled the covers off my own father's misbehavior after so many people thought he was such a good person. Hillary Adams, 23, says the outpouring of support and encouragement she's received since posting the 2004 video online last week is tempered by the sadness that it's her father lashing her 17 times with a belt and threatening to beat her "into submission." The 8-minute video had been watched nearly 2 million times by Thursday morning. Texas judge beating video causing outrage Hillary Adams, daughter of Aransas County Court-at-Law Judge William Adams, walks outside her mother's home in Portland, Texas Wednesday, Nov. Now the beating is on display to the world on YouTube thanks to a secret video she made, and her father is also the subject of a police investigation.ĭad seen on tape beating daughter: I was right ![]()
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