Texas Judge on You Tube Striking Daughter With a Belt

ROCKPORT, Texas (AP) _ A Texas family law judge says he did nothing wrong when he repeatedly lashed his 16-year-old daughter with a belt in a widely circulated YouTube video.

Aransas County Court-at-Law Judge Williams Adams told Corpus Christi television station KZTV on Wednesday that the footage “looks worse than it is.” In an on-camera interview, Adams told the station he was simply disciplining his daughter for stealing.

Rockport police launched an investigation Wednesday after receiving calls from people who saw the video online. The nearly 8-minute clip has been viewed more than 600,000 times on YouTube since being uploaded last week.

The clip was shot in 2004 and shows Adams violently whipping his daughter in the legs more than a dozen times and profanely berating the teenager. 

    
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