PORTLAND, Texas — Police launched an investigation Wednesday into a family-law judge whose daughter posted a YouTube video of him savagely beating her with a belt during a tirade several years ago when she was a teenager.
The nearly 8-minute video shows Aransas County Court- at-Law Judge William Adams lashing his then-16-year-old daughter in the legs more than a dozen times and growing increasingly irate while she screams and refuses to turn over on a bed to be beaten.
Tim Jayroe, the police chief in William Adams’ hometown of Rockport, said his department began investigating after receiving phone calls from several concerned people who watched the secretly recorded 2004 video.
No one answered the door at William Adams’ home in Rockport on Wednesday.
