Totally unrelated, but loving that dash of green in her hair.

Evidence has shown that corporal punishment does not work.

Mr. Adams is Satan personified and he and Mrs. Adams are the epitome of evil and barbarity. They should feel abashed that they took God’s gift of beautiful children whose lives they could have molded, enriched and cherished lovingly but instead savagely, viciously humiliated and subjected to insidious battery. Not only should he be disbarred and “debenched” pronto, but deserves to be imprisoned with “corporal punishment” as his roommate. The state of Texas needs to hold his superiors punitively responsible for hiring him and maintaining him in such a prestigious and powerful position of our most vulnerable and valuable commodities, families and children. The only reason there could possibly be a five year statute on child abuse is to protect the psycho abusers of power! I am appalled and infuriated that his superiors could be so reckless,imprudent,imperil and negligent as to employ a volatile minded sociopath and should be held liable for their decision. Furthermore, the Texas state filled with like minded good ole boys needs to be annexed. I am forever traumatized from the mere viewing of this brutal offense, imagine how Hillary feels from living it! The poor thing is apologizing? The only thing she did wrong was not publishing it sooner and exposing the SOB; she is the one who needs help to validate the fact that she never deserved any of it. It is just the sad luck of the draw that she got someone so disturbed as a father;for God’s sake get the little sister away from the beast and get him out of society for good!

This is so disgusting. He seems like he gets off on beating her, he’s sick and should be forced to resign…how can a man that thinks this is ok be trusted to judge others?

from personal experience I can say this
this is very classic. the abuser thinking nothing is his fault and saying it was worse than it is and mentioning how long it was. it took me the exact amount of time to confront my parents for the same reasons and it takes that long because you think once you turn 18 it will stop. then when you are no longer in physical proximity to the abuser he/she will still have a grip on you emotionally. everything he says in the video, Im certain he probably still says today. it takes a couple of years to think it waill go away. then around 22, you start getting old enough to know you didnt deserve it and it take about a year (23) for you to get over the confusion, and doubt, then you become angry. then you start taking actions like this. large actions. because all you want is to get through to the abuser is that what he/she did was wrong. I mean she even went this far and he still doesnt think hes in the wrong. he probably think that because his parents did that to him growing up. I also know from her perspective, she wants nothing more than a heartfelt apology. thats all. that makes all the difference.  this video really helped me feel less alone in coping with my childhood. I feel less alone in my ability to cope and move on and I feel less alone because seeing her fathers response help me identify with her far more than I thought.

Okay, having watched the full interview, the mom seems genuinely sorry. Maybe I’d just yell at hear while I kicking the shit out of her ex-husband.

Wow, those parents are couple of real faggots. They should be fucking grateful I don’t live in their town, and know where they live, ‘cause I would burn their house to fucking ground, with them in it or not, I do not fucking care. There is a time for everything under the sun. Catching your daughter downloading music is not a time for violence. Catching someone mercilessly assaulting a child for downloading a song is a prime example of the perfect time for violence. And it follows that if there’s one, there’s more of these curs in positions of power. I consider myself a peaceful person, but I would not hesitate to beat this man and woman senseless, possibly to within inches of death.

Matt Lauer is being glib

Internet win!
She is so well spoken and down to earth.
Mother takes a lot of guts to show her face.
I love Judge Adams’ ignorance of the power of technology and more importantly the power of the youth.

Matt Lauer is lame. Seems like he is attempting “tough journalism” by questioning her decision to post the video. Lay off her, she’s the victim, douchebag.

Matty Lauer really sucks as an interviewer. Does he ever let anyone finish a sentence? Is he modeling his behavior on Bill O’Reilly?

“Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.” (Proverbs 23:14) What’s the problem, he’s just being a good Christian?

Oh hell no. That’s NOT disciplining. Especially at 16; at that age you can sit and TALK to your child about what they did wrong.

This is my area of the world and party of my community, here in the coastal bend of Texas.  The sad thing? There are way too many people who think what this guy did is proper and right. People who are the type who will point to a growing amount of violence that can be solved, by more violence.  The attitude is that they got their ass beat as a kid and it’s more than proper to pass that ass beating down to someone else.  It’s sick, stupid and needs to stop.

“When does it cross the line?” DA: “That’s a difficult thing to determine.” How about after, like, the 47th beating? Fucking Christ.