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Video Claims To Show Aransas County Judge Hit Daughter
Posted: Nov 2, 2011 8:40 AM by Keaton Fox - kfox@kristv.com
Updated: Nov 2, 2011 6:33 PM
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CORPUS CHRISTI - A video uploaded to YouTube is gaining national attention after it claims that Aransas County Judge at Law William Adams is the man in the video shown beating a young girl.
A description on the video says the girl in the video is Hillary Adams, the judge's daughter.
The video's timestamp shows it was uploaded October 27, but didn't receive national attention until today. Last night the video had 300 hits. As of 8:30 a.m., it had 225,000.
On the phone from outside the Coastal Bend, Hillary Adams says she uploaded the video to bring attention to the problems she says she had when she was younger.
"It had happened before, and had been escalating," Adams said. "I set up a camera, and I caught it."
Adams says she was downloading music from a peer-to-peer networking site, something she says her father had forbidden, before the incident happened.
"My father's harassment was getting really bad, so I decided to finally publish the video that I had been sitting on for 7 years," Adams said.
Adams says the abuse happened for years, but she never thought it was unusual.
"I thought abuse at some level was normal," Adams said.
Users on the popular site Reddit uploaded images of pizza orders they sent to his house overnight, and some said they were calling the Aransas County courthouse to leave messages.
Adams has not been available for comment.
(WARNING: This video may be disturbing to some viewers.) Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl9y3SIPt7o&feature=youtu.be
We'll have much more on this story throughout the day.
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