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Police investigate Texas judge over video beating

scribe123

I'm lost for words

They should tie this guy up to a post and get out the cat of nine tails.... and then lock him up.

mikelincs

Seen this on another part of BE, his wife also joins in, and even worse is that the child has some sort of ataxia.

Tangram

That made me feel ill.

Almost Canadian

I find it incredible that the commentators in the article suggest that he wasn't doing anything criminal!

Dave n Ailsa

I had to stop watching that pretty quickly.

Made me want to jump on a plane and stamp on his head

I thought that sort of punishment stopped 100 years ago.

snowcandy

I had to turn it off, it made me feel physically sick.

Having spent many years working with special needs children this kind of thing is heartbreaking.

Lock them up and throw away the key...mind you it is Texas so I can think of far more fitting punishment for such monsters.

Almost Canadian

My dad did similar things to me when I was a nipper.

I accept that it was wrong, but it all looks a little too contrived to me. The girls comments also seem bizarre (what she said about the video).

mikelincs

Don't forget, the girl has cerebral ataxia.

Almost Canadian

OK. I fail to see how her inability to control her muscles is relevant to pre meditation. I accept I may be failing to understand the significance of her condition.

Alan2005

It's not relevant as it shouldn't matter who the victim is, or what conditions they have. If the video is real (is there any doubt?), then a beating like that is assault and should result in jail time.

el_richo

I agree. I see no difference to a father beating his daughter in that way to a man beating a female stranger in that way. It's aggressive assault and way over line.

People who condone that shit are a bit weird.

Almost Canadian

Sorry if people thought I was condoning it, I thought I made it clear I wasn't.

I cannot believe what he did was not criminal. I don't know, but I suspect it would depend upon what is reasonable chatisement in Texas.

I made a comment that it seemed a little too pre medidated to me (the filming). That may be because this happened to the girl repeatedly and she wanted to catch them in the act. The comments attributed to her in the article seemed bizarre.

Someone then appeared to suggest that she would make such comments because of her condition. I then stated that I couldn't see how her condition had any relevance to her comments.

kimilseung

More to the point is the 5 year limit on prosecution for child abuse, the act was 7 years ago.

She said that she knew something was up, and it was coming to a head (again), the camera was set up half an hour before the attack.

Mother and Father are now divorced. Daughter released the video because of continued harassment even as an adult living independently.

Alan2005

I thought I was agreeing with you.