Old adage: “Spare the rod & spoil the child”. Still holds true, you know?

The holidays are going to be awkward this year.

There’s a difference between using the rod and beating the shit out of your child with it.

And a difference between spanking a 5 year old and a 16 year old girl.

My parents stopped spanking us once we turned 5.  When you’re 4 or 5 a good swat can get the point across sometimes. Not abusive hitting, or anything, but just a tap.

But a dad spanking (and in this case whipping) his 16 year old daughter is just weird and kind of creepy for a whole host of reasons.  Not only is it abuse, but it kind of makes you wonder if he’s getting off on it or something.

True… at 16 you need to come up with more creative ways to punish. Surely he had more at his disposal than a “whippen”. If she was illegally downloading songs… take away the damn computer!

this guy is disgusting. He doesn’t even think hes wrong, pull him from the bench immediately. 

“it’s not as bad as it looks on tape.”

i agree, i’m sure it was much worse…  this dude is a complete douchetard…  he probably rubbed her nose in her own shit as a sound and proven potty-training technique…

When he is old and dying on his death bed, he will learn why what he did to his daughter was wrong….

This guy is a family law judge. How many abused children did he put back into abusive homes because he thought this kind of behavior is acceptable? I hope he gets jail time, because I’m sure he’s doing the same thing to his younger daughter also.

@carltonwest You sir are a moron.. Let me show you, I can beat the stupid off you

That bastard is an animal

I  was thinking assmunch but douchetard is pretty good too. It’s amazing to me that he thinks it wasn’t that bad. I’m sure he’s watched the video by now. But alas, abusers like this don’t see this as wrong. Maybe someone should whip him with a belt on the legs and backside and tell him it’s not as bad as it looks…smh

and she’s handicapped.  actually an animal has better traits.  the man should spend allot of time in jail.  maybe and eye-for-an-eye…the he can see if its ‘not that bad’ as he claims.  interesting that Mom said come sleep on ‘my’ couch tonight – what do they have, separate living spaces in the house? 

Wow my Dad used on belt on me a couple of times, but it was more noise than pain.  This guy had a lot of anger he took out on a…..girl.  I salute the girl for the payback.  The parents are the ones who need disciplining.

Someone should whip his ass and see if it’s not as bad as it looks.

It’s won’t matter because there’ll be some victim to smother him with a pillow anyway.

I don’t see a spanking as abuse.

Abuse is an excess. A spanking by its nature is graphic so what you are reacting to most likely is the grahic nature. But I don’t see it as abuse.  She probably could walk the next day and wasn’t even crying in this video.

I take the judges side – probably looked worse than it is.

So it’s wrong to spank your child?

I can’t stand that bastard’s sick little smile.  I hope he goes down. What kind of dad belt whips a girl and yells the F-word at her while he is doing it?  I’ll bet he is a real human being on that bench.

You must do this yourself, right? Did you watch the whole video? Look, if you can’t control your anger before hitting or taking something to hit a child, then it is a problem. 

Taking away the computer would have been the very thing to do. In the full video, the mother is heard saying “she had already spanked her”, but the father insists on using the belt – and the full video you see it go on and on, and his anger doesn’t stop. This wasn’t the kid here – it was the parents.

No…it doesn’t, dummy.

First, did you understand the difference between a “spank” and what happened in this video? Not a big supporter of “spank” anyway because ppl abuse what that really should be and what it should be used.

Sometimes people do get harmed in the same way they harm others. 

Apparently, there have been some “questionable” mentions on some of his cases previously to this video. 
But – it now they will have to be reviewed anyway.

Did you watch it?  She was screaming and crying the entire time.

And he wasn’t “Spanking” her.  He was whipping her on the arms, legs, and butt with a belt. The mom even seemed to slap her on the face once (it was off camera, though, so hard to tell).  I’d define that as abuse. I don’t know what the law would say, but since this girl is technically disabled and thus in a more vulnerable position I actually think the law might be more harsh.

But whether it’s legal or not, the guy is definitely a fucking asshole with  issues and I don’t think he’s fit to be a judge.  It’s clear that at a certain point in the video he’s not really disciplining as much as he’s just venting his anger through violence (this isn’t a responsible parent issuing discipline, he’s cursing and shouting the entire time). The mom actually intervenes and gives her one lash so she can end it, but then the dad comes back and says “I didn’t get mine” and starts whipping her again.

A 16 year old is old enough to speak and understand reason.  Yeah, I know they can be brats so it’s often hard to see this sometimes, but at that point they basically are almost adults so physical punishment is 100 times more psychologically scarring to them.  If the only way you can get through to a 16 year old is by whipping them repeatedly with a belt, then you are a terrible parent.

I am guessing, that instead of sleeping in her own room, her mom wanted to put some space between the girl and her father. Even though what she is doing in the video seems disgusting, I also kind of thought the mom may have been feeling uncomfortable with what was going on in the home. Sounds like she was also abused. Weird.

Funny..I and my children’s mother were able to raise 2 children without ever having to resort to what I witnessed here. He is a bully and a creep! As a man, I would be happy to give that bastard a dose of his own medicine. God awful.

Spank with your hand.

Whip with a belt.

That was a severe whipping. He is a sociopath.

I agree.  Front of the hand only, and only on the butt.  Should not have to do this after age 5. 

Why was this videotaped? What kind of sick mind does this at all, let alone videos the action? Kind of makes you wonder if he was passing it around to his sick friends?

One thing is for certain: this is likely not the only incident; nor the worst. Imagine what he DIDN’T want recorded?

He is lucky that the Lord High Executioner Ko-Ko (who criteria for deciding on an appropriate punishment for a crime is “Let the Punishment Fit the Crime) is not on the committee that is supposed to review his conduct. Otherwise he would be in the receiving end of a whipping. Maybe the committee should advertise for a Dominatrix to deliver the punishment.

It is not wrong to spank your child, but it is wrong to beat the crap out of them. Hopefully you can see that this is not spanking, but an all out physical assault.

You have made some dumb post before, but this is the post of an idiot.

If you spank, you Beat the shit out of your 16 year old daughter’s ass yes.

You’re a fucking moron. Beating someone with a belt is not “spanking” and being able to walk the next day doesn’t make it a good idea whatsoever.

All you adults posting that it’s no big deal – think about this – If he was doing that to you, would you still just think it was nothing? I’m guessing most of you would get up and kick seven shades of shit out of the prick..I would.

He didn’t tape it, the daughter had the camera set up.

Nah, that “adage” is dumb as shit. 

“…wasn’t even crying?” You & Carlton are in for a wild ride…

Pull him from the bench?! Throw him in the dungeon with alligators and sadists…

That bad, huh?

“‘It’s Not As Bad As It Looks On Tape’”

lol….wtf…..how retarded is this guy?

If you call what you seen here a spanking, you are one sick SOB

Were these depraved parents also beating the younger child shooed from the room before the bums attacked their child w/cerebral palsy? 

Both parents should be jailed. 

“Death threats”…  you mean like, getting whipped within an inch of his “fucking” life with his choice of 1-inch or 1.5-inch belts?

“Old adage: “Spare the rod & spoil the child”. Still holds true, you know?”

Do you prefer to remain ignorant or to know the truth? The ‘rod’ you’re referring to was an instrument used to – gently – I said gently – guide sheep back onto the path. The rod you love so much was never intended to beat sheep — and certainly was never intended to beat children! 

The broken red capillaries on his nose, cheeks and chin scream out very advanced alcoholism. Of course, the vast majority of alcoholics are not sadists like this guy. If justice is served, he’ll be drying out over a very long time in jail. The ex wife belongs in jail too. 

The horror and irony of the situation can hardly be lost on one hand here we have an individual who has the trusted role as family law judge and on the other here we are seeing him brazenly beating his daughter without remorse or within a barometer of reason. It is as if he is unleashing all the torment of his office on his daughter, the effect of which is horrendous considering her disability. In the end one can only wonder what type of punishments this man has administered in his capacity as a judge and whether we should allow such an individual who has an extreme affinity to personal family discipline should be allowed to decide the fate of other individual’s family grievances?

“Beat you to submission?” So much for good discipline… from someone who should know better.

http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2011/11/family-law-judge-caught-on-tape-beating-his-16-year-disabled-daughter-for-playing-computer-games

there is a diffenec in spanking and beating. watch the video again. thats not a spanking, open ur eyes ffs!

this is just my thought, how bout he and his wife both receive that same style of beating, but tied up so they cant move or run off. ppl like that need to be locked up and never set free. if that guy gets reelected then there is no hope or faith in the justice system 

Right after someone beats him with a belt…a big belt. Disgusting

you are evil to the core antonio

And you are an idiotic, moronic, imbecilic ignoramus, antonio. You need a good, old fashion horse whippin’ as does that perverted, child abusing, idiot judge. Actually, give me 5 minutes with that coward judge and he’ll never even think about beating a little girl or boy again. I never laid a hand on my children and they all turned out just fine. Throw the book at that pervert or give him to me for 5 minutes!!!

leave it to the ‘spare the rod’ crowd to mangle a biblical metaphor. the same holds true for the idiots in salem, mass. who misinterpreted scripture about not “suffering a witch to live” (exodus 22:18); used as an excuse to execute (accused) practitioners of witchcraft. the original hebrew from which the verse was translated conveys merely that one must not patronize or financially support the practice of witchcraft.

anyone who looks on such events as ‘normal’ betrays having endured similar mistreatment. the judge engaged in an ages-old ritual of repressing the memory of his own abuse by tormenting his daughter.

You sir are a blind idiot!! there is spanking with your hand & this way, if it hurts your hand you know you are getting the point across. BUT… with a belt? & that many times?? & you say she was’nt crying?? He could take the computer away, ground her take away her cell phone & all phone options but this is overly excessive!!  May I strongly suggest you stop sniffing the end of your cars exhaust pipe! you lost your brain!!

“She probably could walk the next day . . .”

That’s your definition of whether or not something is abuse????  Please tell me you haven’t and/or won’t reproduce.  Using a belt to repeatedly hit anyone–child, wife–over and over and over with all of your strength, especially as a man, even coming back and continuing your beating after leaving the room, all while verbally abusing your so called loved one, is abuse plain and simple.  The fact that you are incapable of seeing this as abuse shows how ignorant you are about raising a child.  A parent’s job is to discipline their children–provide them with guidance, education, consistent messages, and boundaries, as well as serve as a role model.  Punishment is something I rarely needed to resort to as I raised my daughter, and even then, I can name only 2 times when I spanked her on her bottom to get her attention.  There are other ways to punish a child, and if you can’t think of any besides beating the shit out of them with a belt, you should not be reproducing.  Oh, and “she wasn’t even crying?”  She’s probably used to it.  I would have loved to see what her legs and butt looked like the next day.  I’ve never been more disgusted.

I’m not sure what was worse: the physical abuse or the verbal/emotional abuse.

In Biblical times the “rod” was the staff used by a shepherd to GUIDE sheep, not to hit/harm/punish/abuse/injure sheep. “Spare the rod and spoil the child” is an adage that means “guide your children so that they don’t stay from the path” not “physically harm them if they don’t do what you want.”

The reason this is on Mediaite, is because they are attempting to attack Texas. Problem is, they are attacking what we want attacked.

Here is the deal, libertarians, conservatives, liberals, communists, socialists, etc, etc, etc hate CORRUPT Judges. Hmmmm, how did this system create a component where this POS judge was allowed to do this? Did the state allow a system to DESTROY this POS judge?  Let us see.

Oh, so because he didn’t break anything and only crushed her psyche, it’s fair game?

Hitting you kid teaches them to solve all their problems with violence. The research is very clear: children who are abused/physically punished are more likely to join a gang, get into fights at school, and be involved in an abusive relationship.
That’s what’s wrong with spanking a child.

I would like to JUDGE this judge

ANTONIO_  Estas PENDEJO Y JODIDO DE LA CABEZA.

Can you see the difference between Spanking and Whipping?
Three spanks is more than enough when talking and mediation doesn’t work.  But this situation was not even close necessary to use a belt.  It was absurd and bastard.  He, as a person of the law has to over-understand this kind of situation and deal it with intelligence and confidence.  More when he has a palsy disable child that probably doesn’t understand the hole incident.  A computer shut down with a Nani monitoring software for a month should be ideal for this situation.  Besides, if anything illegal happened at that time… Daddy should use his JUDGE powers and contacts to overcome that situation.  So Antonio, my suggestion is take a thin belt, ask a person to whip you 20 times, record it and post it on youtube  and last comment your experience.  IDIOTA. 

your an idiot!!! u must got beat with a hammer and thought it was normal!! idiot

Put him on trial in Judge Judy’s court …… Wish someone would interview her on this case.

I’d sure love to meet him! What a psycho!!!

This is not punishment. The “judge” is obviously not in control of his temper as he swears at and beats this 16 year old disabled girl. Antonio is a sadistic moron. 

“Go get the belt, go get the big one”,  “Lay down or I’ll smack you on the f*&^%ing face”,  “Give me some more”, “I’ll go get another one” 
In his eyes it may have been as bad as it looked, but it sounded horrible.  I am amazed how could this “man” could beat his child like this and have the audacity to hold court and preside over anyone’s family.  I am absolutely appalled!

Not only is this WAY over the top in a physical way but he is using language that is abusive and demeaning. To use that kind of language and beat her so many times….it goes beyond punishment to abuse.

Unreal.  This is a felony, pure and simple.

You need to watch the whole 7 and a half minute video. This guy was not spanking; he was whipping with a belt. I have no problem with spanking, but this guy needs to be taken to the woodshed himself. I’d be happy to accomodate him, the sick bastard.

Not as bad as it looks?  Does he want to volunteer for the same beating as he gave his daughter?

Jail time for both he and his wife…..SICK!

are you serious? this looks worse than it is? you have to be out of your mind to think this is ok?  I hope to hell you have no children and treat them like this!  this is no way to treat ANYONE! how would you like that ass whooping?

Let one of your friends “spank” you like this video, then tell me what the difference is between spanking with your hand and beating her with a belt. This is an assault. Whipping is a few whips ON YOUR ASS and your finished. Not the arms or legs. Sounds like your a beater yourself…or else stupid like no other.  

People who think that obedience is the most important quality in a child are on a narcissistic power trip. My child is very well behaved because I reason with her. I don’t want her like a horse who responds to my every movement with obedience. I want her to be a thinking individual.

For corpal punishment to not be abuse it has to have the following things:
the enforcer has to be calm, and not do it out of anger
there has to be a regulated number beforehand, oh you stole, that means 5 hits on the backside (for instant)
you do not use mental punishment (no screaming, demeaning, name calling)
it doesn’t happen in a fearfull environnement (this is not according to law but my personal opinion), like you did something bad, you get punishment, but you shouldnt be scared.

The girl is frightened, the dad is angry and he’s just randomly hitting and screaming at her.
The wife didn’t abuse the daughter, but the man did.

I disagree!!

It seems parents forget when they’re old, they need their kids to help take care of them!! This Judge will probably die alone, without any family members by his side… that’s if he doesn’t mysteriously falls down a flight of stairs and is killed before that!!

I’m going to beat the shit out of this guy… and then apologize.

He is the judge that insists that children in abuse cases should be allowed to testify.  

I’m a Christian, born and raised an my parents spanked me. But I never got more then five hits with a belt. 20 is a bit extreme and all over the body, plus needed to have a second belt in the room? The yelling and swearing? Totally over the line. How many people did he put behind bars for doing the same thing to their children?

Now, sure she was downloading stuff from the internet and it was illegal. Could it have cost him his job? maybe. Also depends on what else was on his computer, was he trying to hide something himself? He should have just taken away the computer, but to beat a teen, one with a disablement and that many times? That was far over the line. He honestly has no right in a family court.

His wife is just as guilty. If this had been going on for a while, then she should have left him. As for hte others who say it’s not abuse cause she could walk. Abusers want you to walk. If you can’t walk the next day, the chances of getting caught are higher. Not all abusers cripple their kids, cause then the courts do get involved when the child goes to the hospital. 

Some states have laws that if there is a broken bone, the cops are called, no matter what. This man crossed a fine line and every case that he oversaw needs to be re-opened

It likely won’t be as bad as it looks, therefore I support you.

Are you suggesting there are healthy ways to use a rod on a child?

Bravo Judge !!!!  abuse i didn’t see any bruises or broken skin no bleeding where is the abuse.  I believe that disipline is solely up to the parent 

Most certainly not. The ‘rod’ is, traditionally, a shepard’s staff. The adage has been misappropriated by abusers and abuse apologists.

This was not just normal discipline. He beat the crap out of her! Its was WAY over the top! 

yes.

This guy  is using violence to sublimate his sexual urges for his daughter.

Her wants to have sex with her, but is somehow prohibited…not by the mom, apparently…
So he flogs her on the butt.
With a belt.
He enjoys her screams of pain, cuz they sound to him like the screams of passion…Paging Dr. Freud???

Until the parent goes out of control and can’t contain his temper.  What I saw is NOT normal punishment, it was a savage beating by a bully of a father.

This doesn’t require brain surgery: This guy used violence against her to sublimate his sexual urges for his daughter. He redirected lust into righteousness. Nobody ever did THAT before, did they Rev. Babbitt?

He wants to have sex with her, but is somehow prohibited…not by the mom, apparently…she telling the daughter to “take it like a woman?”

So he flogs her on the butt.
With a belt.
He enjoys her screams of pain, cuz they sound to him like the screams of passion he REALLY wants to hear…
Paging Dr. Freud??? 

 Antonio, With all due respect I have to respond to what you’ve said. By saying “She could probably walk the next day” is hardly the best litmus test for whether its abuse or not. Many children suffer torture at the hands of their parents and walk to school the next day. This type of abuse, and spanking in general, is the tool of lazy minds not willing to take the time to learn how to best relate to their children.

Keep dreaming billy bad ass

Disgusting apologists, and other conservative outlets that wants us to feel sorry for this sick twisted abuser who should be castrated and not going anywhere near children,

Ohh we should feel sorry for him.. bla bla bla..  get a life would ya .. !

I hate these apologists and there stupid backwards beliefs..
You dont deserve a child…

Just another patriotic Republican Murcuhn in action.

Then I take it from your perspective there is no such thing as “verbal abuse”. No bruises, broken bones, bleeding etc. I obviously take a different perspective, I believe there can be “abuse” without bruises, broken skin or bleeding. Your take?

What you saw, was set up by a teen-ager who staged the whole event and then performed for the camera.   She committed the offense, and she was deliberately disobedient during the spanking. 

And you are falling for the fake tears hook, line, and sinker.

She is screaming and crying the whole because she is the only one who knows that she is on camera.

Since everyone has been piling on Antonio let me say…

You people are stupid. 

You are all up in arms like this guy is the devil or something.  It is amazing that no one realizes or even talks about the fact that the girl set this all up.  No on talks about the fact that she knew she was on the camera.  No one talks about the fact that all of her behavior in this video was colored by the fact that she knew that she was on camera.

He wouldn’t do that (take away the computer) because late at night, when everyone is in bed, he is viewing porn! 

Put this guy behind bars for a while! He’ll probably get spanked a few times in prison.

Well, at least now we know why the judge took his guns with him when he left town.  There are some real psychos out there and some of them were abused as kids. When they see this video, this judge is in deep trouble.  Why do you think child abusers and molesters have it so rough in prison?  Judges and prosecutors are understandably allowed to carry concealed firearms in Texas, but I honestly wonder if it will do this monster any good.  He needs to take a LONG vacation down in Mexico.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!!! I don’t care if someone- ANYONE- especially a child, “starts” a fight—it’s still WRONG for any father- especially a JUDGE to BEAT their child!! This was NOT a simple “I lost my temper (he took a cool off period and started again!)…this man needs a beating himself and he’ll be sure to get one in PRISON!

You are ignorant! I have 6 adopted children that ALL experienced “spankings” at the hands of the very people that were supposed to PROTECT them- their parents! A beating is not a spanking; a punishment! It is a LIFELONG scar that NEVER goes away…..I know first hand as I STILL get up several nights a week to reassure my TERRORIZED children they are safe- after awakening from nightmares of their “spankings”!!! Before you post, THINK!!!!!!!!

She set this up? So she created a robot that looks like her Dad, had the robot whip the shit out of her… I’m sorry… torture her… and then she must have had her real Dad, a person who should lose his job and do however many years it is for torture (I hope it’s life) agree to claiming he delivered the punishment probably to get some fame and several million youtube hits. That sounds about logical. Darrius, I wonder what you would do if you were raised from birth in a hostile environment and treated with such callous and abuse? He’s lucky he only got some video footage of the act. Are you suggesting HE IS THE VICTIM? You and Antonio… were you abused when you were children? No really, there are support lines if you need them… one second. http://www.findcounseling.com/journal/child-abuse/child-abuse-hotlines-phone-numbers.html

No statute of limitations that would otherwise precludeprosecution for an offense involving the sexual or physical abuse,or kidnaping, of a child under the age of 18 years shall precludesuch prosecution during the life of the child.

You can still speak up. Don’t become an enabler because you were a victim. No person of any age should be treated with any kind of physical abuse unless you are being attacked and are defending yourself. I can understand connecting a message like “don’t stick a knife in the light socket” with a pat on the hand. And if you think I’m part of some “Nanny State” that is teaching kids they can get away with whatever, you have me wrong. I talk to my kids, I do everything I can to prepare them for life, I don’t own them, they deserve various levels of respect through their maturity and rarely have I lost my temper. I have broken my daughters cell phone once. That was quite childish of me. I am not against admitting when I’ve done something foolish and I grounded her from her phone still as she worked to purchase her next one. I shared half the cost of the next phone. We both learned from the experience.

The judge must have wanted public disgrace and violent threats for his life forever. Otherwise, maybe HE should have thought about the consequences of his actions.

This guy and his wife need to be brought out in the middle of a busy street and beaten with a belt. Bunch of whitetrash inbred rednecks if you ask me. idk why they aren’t ine jail already. Thats why certain people should not be allowed to have children. Hope that redneck asshole and his whitetrash wife get what they deserve

Your a fu7kning sadisic redneck bully too,your next u low life piece of s#@t

ur a redneck idiot too…id love to beat both of u low life scumbags..

ur an idiot and blind as a redneck di&*head..id love to beat your ass too..she has cerebal palsy u fu**ning lowlife feak

ur a fucking ass hole ..anyone who defends this guy is sick..and needs to be beat in jail

come tp Jersey u F87cink low life pu&^y so we can bea ur sorry ass

coles,,u must be this dic*heads boyfriend…go back in ur hole pu**y

17+ strikes with a belt while screaming, swearing, insulting and threatening a teen isn’t discipline; it’s taking one’s anger out on a helpless person. 

Fake tears? Have you ever been beaten with a belt? The girl was struck at least 17 times while being sworn at, insulted, and threatened with more violence — including being struck in the face.

No wonder she set up a camera in case it happened again. 

This wasn’t a “spanking” it was a rage fueled beating. All it taught her was that she can’t trust her parents, that her body doesn’t belong to her, and that violence is an appropriate way to deal with problems.
There are other ways to discipline a child.

Again I ask: have you ever been beaten with a belt? How about while being screamed at and threatened with more violence?

She’s screaming and crying because it hurt and it was scary and she felt hopeless.

Turning on a camera to catch the abuse about to come is not “setting” anything up. 

Yes, like taking the computer away, and I think that’s more than enough, sometimes I spank my kids but in the butt and with my hand so I feel the pain too, but I have never ever hit them that way, thay saw it on the news (we live in México and they broadcasted it nation wide) and were shocked

LOL 

No tonto, actually there’s a difference between spanking and beating, I mean, do you have a dictionary???

WHAT AN EXCELLENT COMMENT, YOU ARE VERY VERY CORRECT ! BEAUTIFULLY SAID… 

For those of you who are fine with the father’s actions, whether it’s because of some biblical trope, or because the daughter made and posted the video so she’s suspect, or whatever.
GET HELP. You have a very disturbed idea of how humans should interact with each other and what is acceptable behavior. There is no reason possible for the behavior on the part of the father in this video, and if you think there is you need some serious reprogramming.

I think the father told the mother that the daughter can’t sleep in her room so she’d be separated from the computer.

U COULDNT OF SAID IT BETTER !!! EXCELLENT COMMENT, VERY ACCURATE 

Thank you. 

WHAT ???  NO NO NO,   THE DAUGHTER SECRETLY SET UP THE CAMERA TO CATCH THE ABUSE ON TAPE, HE HAD NO CLUE HE WAS BEING RECORDED.. SHE DID IT FOR PROTECTION TO DOCUMENT THE WHIPPINGS. 

You need to stop posting comments after smoking crack !!!!!

HE DESERVES DEATH THREATS

I thought that was an instruction to not use the rod and to treat the child like a precious person who would thrive on a little ‘spoiling.’ 
Which I believe holds true no matter what. People treat their kids with anger and spitefulness and then later wonder they the kids won’t go ‘home’ for the holidays. 

No bruises, broken skin, or bleeding…..just the excuse the typical abuser will use to get out of the charges of abuse. And there’s a difference between discipline and punishment. Get a clue……

You are unequivocally an idiot.  Up to the parent my ass!  I suppose this has to be seen as just another sick manifestation of Texas thinking.  If I had the chance, I would give you a beating.

That wasnt  ‘beating the shit out of”

It wasn’t at all controversial

Get your eyes checked then

Right sissy, “verbal abuse” is easy. It hasn’t made anyone bleed.

I grew up with physical discipline (spanking with hand & belt, face slapping), and I figured that I would do the same as well, as I was of course deluded to believe it was good parenting.

Then I married a foreign national and also relocated to her country.  She and her older and younger sisters never had a hand laid on them during their childhoods, as it was not part of their particular culture.  My guess is, their holy book–or reading of it—does not try to justify atrocities and abuse.  When I brought up the subject of how to discipline our expected child with my pregnant wife some 16 years ago, she was shocked and horrified that I considered it acceptable to use spanking and slapping.  She left me with the idea that if I attempted to do the same with our child, she might do something to me in my sleep.

So our 15-year old daughter has never had a hand laid on her in violent “discipline” ever.  You think she’s a spoiled behavior problem?  Surely her school teachers would have called me and her mother at some point in the 10 or 11 years she’s been going to school.  Or maybe the police would have brought her to our front door, figuring she’s a candidate for prison.  No.  Not once.

Far from being tools for (good) parenting, the use of spanking and slapping are admissions of the failure of good parenting.  There is never a need for this kind of abuse, and it should be outlawed. Moreover, the government should demand those registering for marriage certificates show proof of having received certificates in good parenting.

Judging by the reaction of the vast majority of commenters on this page and how the rest of the country has reacted to it in general, I’d say you’re right.  It’s not controversial.  Nearly everyone, except you and a couple of other abuse apologists, finds the father’s actions absolutely appalling.  

Why on earth would you consider this treatment reasonable punishment for a child?

It most certainly has.  Verbal abuse has a causal relationship with suicide, you ass.

That doesn’t excuse the behavior of the ADULTS.  

She’s a damn teenager, a child.  Regardless of her motive and her actions, her father, THE ADULT, should have behaved like one.

Judge William Adams has an account on fetlife.com!!! He wouldn’t take away the computer, everrr!

“It’s not as bad as it looks”?????????????????????????????

This guy is a sexual pervert.  S&M should be allowed, but only between consenting adults. This girl was under-age, and the relationship is incestuous.

You are disgusting.

It just sickens me when some people make jokes or try to justify abuse. In the interview with Matt Lauer it came out that this beating was not the first. What would you do if it happened to you and both your parents were in on it and one being a judge? How do we know this isn’t happening or happened to the younger child.The parents have split and if this creep is trying to get custody of the sibling don’t you think the sister wants to protect her sibling. I’m glad the video was released. How scared she must have been living with him until the day she could get out. And knowing what might have happened if the creep found the tape. It is illegal to beat your wife, but beating your child is allowed? That bounty hunter dude on TV recently obtained temporary custody of his grandson after he was beat. It was caught on audio by a neighbor. The boy is pleading to his daddy. You hear 13 whacks, but yet the father and his attorney both say there were only 3 whacks. Abuse goes on everyday and as bad or “taboo” the subject is it needs to be talked about and the abusers exposed. The statute of limitations may have run, but at least the creep has been exposed!

Anyone who defends this psycho is as sick as he is, and a menace to children.

 
We often hear from those who fight to uphold this practice for those under the age of 18 (even to the blaming of the social maladies of the day on a supposed “lack” of it), but we rarely, if ever, find advocates for the return of corporal punishment to the general adult community, college campuses, inmate population, or military. Why is that?

Ask ten unyielding proponents of child/adolescent/teenage-only “spanking” about the “right” way to do it, and what would be abusive, indecent, or obscene, and you will get ten different answers.

These proponents should consider making their own video-recording of the “right way” to do it.

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Any verbal or physical harm between any two living things, causes fear and causes lack of faith in life. It gives one sorrow. It creates panic almost to the point where one cannot deal with it and wants to pretend it did not happen. Like seeing a ghost or a ufo. Did it happen ? or did’nt it? We become untrustworthy to ourselves and perhaps to others.  When a marriage is in progress and two people make love and eat and sleep together and then out of the blue one does not stick up for the other or puts down the other in front of company, copany who’s not so intimate relationship or opinion matters. Or hitting agressively a dog or a mate . People who hit their children at any time have stress and are fearing what society “thinks”, they are not in touch with said child.  Reading helps, and knowing about social conditioning helps.  To have understanding helps.  Children and probably adults have 4 stages of wakefulness. ETC.   What we thin others are thinking of us, hurts our pride but bieng in touch with a mate or a child or a dog, or food and air, we can then truely BE in our response.  I’ll  add to that just having cps investigate families as they do, leave doubt and fear in their wake, and its like little demons left behind to create more stress and tension and even psychologist know that inuendo about a class of people actually make that class of people act even more like the inuendo.  It is words creating image creating image creating reality.