An earlier story that this blog covered, about the Texas judge, William Adams, who had apparently beaten his daughter on video, may have a resolution.
It turns out that the Texas Supreme Court suspended Judge William Adams from his position, reports The Stir.
The Hillary Adams beating was chronicled in a video dated 2004 and which was uploaded to Youtube. It went viral.
The video was extremely graphic. It showed a T-shirted man hitting a teenage girl with a belt and instructing her to “bend the (expletive) over.” A woman in the video — apparently Hillary Adams’s mother — looked on and screamed, “You turn over like a 16-year-old and take it, like a grown woman!”
No charges had come against Judge William Adams because of the statute of limitations having been run. The fact that no remedial action was being taken was not against the letter of the law, but did seem to run counter to Texas public policy.
One of the statutes that covers child abuse in Texas is Family Code 261.101(b). It requires teachers, nurses, doctors, day-care employees, employees of a clinic or health care facility that provides reproductive services, juvenile probation officers, and juvenile detention or correctional officers to report child abuse. One aim of the law is to use the community help reduce and eradicate child abuse in Texas.
Obviously, the state supreme court was aware of the statute, and did not want the public to think that the statute had no teeth, or that a judge could be above the law.
Child abuse can take many different forms. And preventing it is a community-wide task. In that job, local attorneys are very helpful. They can help get temporary restraining orders or simply advice as to what the best step might be.
Related Resources:
- Find a Houston Family Law attorney (FindLaw)
- Extending a Texas Protective Order (FindLaw’s Houston Family Law Blog)
- Top Five Texas Divorces of 2011 (FindLaw’s Houston Family Law Blog)
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