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This is absolutely outrageous. I watched it because the girl herself uploaded it to the internet to show the world what her parents did to her. And it worked. Millions and millions of people have viewed the video since it was uploaded earlier this week.
The disturbing video shows Texas judge William Adams repeatedly beating his then16-year-old daughter with a belt while she screams in pain. At one point he is assisted by his wife, Hillary’s mother who, as you’ll read below, has since divorced the judge.
This all apparently took place in 2004 so that would make Hillary Adams 23 years old today. She uploaded the video below with this powerful message:
2004: Aransas County Court-At-Law Judge William Adams took a belt to his own teenage daughter as punishment for using the internet to acquire music and games that were unavailable for legal purchase at the time. She has had ataxic cerebral palsy from birth that led her to a passion for technology, which was strictly forbidden by her father’s backwards views. The judge’s wife was emotionally abused herself and was severely manipulated into assisting the beating and should not be blamed for any content in this video. The judge’s wife has since left the marriage due to the abuse, which continues to this day, and has sincerely apologized and repented for her part and for allowing such a thing, long before this video was even revealed to exist. Judge William Adams is not fit to be anywhere near the law system if he can’t even exercise fit judgement as a parent himself. Do not allow this man to ever be re-elected again. His “judgement” is a giant farce. Signed, Hillary Adams, his daughter.
Click here to watch the video and see Judge William Adams’ and his ex-wife’s response to its release. Continue reading »
Daycare owner accused of crushing drugs into milk. She allegedly called it "special milk".
This is SO not the news story I need to read mere days before sending my daughter to daycare for the very first time.
As MSNBC reports, the owner of a daycare in Texas is accused of putting drugs in children’s food so they would fall asleep after lunch.
Kimberly Lane, the owner of the Luv N Learning daycare in Van Alstyne, was arrested and charged with 16 counts of child endangerment after someone called police and said she was mixing an over-the-counter antihistamine with milk and then giving it to children. Continue reading »
An 8-year-old boy with cerebral palsy was unable to receive his First Communion because of concerns that he did not have the mental capacity to understand the rite.
According to reports out of San Antonio, Texas , Rev. Phil Henning of Sacred Heart Catholic Church denied Kevin Castro his first reception of the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist, because he had “the mental capacity of a 6-month old” and didn’t have “sufficient knowledge of Christ” to participate in the religious rite. Continue reading »
On the left, a brain engorged by hydrocephalus.
The New York Daily News reports that neurosurgeons in San Antonio are fighting to save the life of 11-month-old baby Klaus who has hydrocephalus, “a build-up of excess fluid in the brain that has caused his head to swell to more than 130%.” Several doctors in Texas had refused to operate on baby Klaus, telling his parents their son would die. But Dr. David Jimenez, the chairman of the department of neurosurgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, decided to take Klaus’s case.
The Daily News reports, “Jimenez and his staff inserted a tube in the baby’s head to drain the fluid and relieve the pressure, and the child’s head is already about a foot smaller than it was when his parents brought him in about two weeks ago.” Indeed, baby Klaus’s head is enormous. In footage provided by San Antonio station KENS5, his head appears to be almost the width of Dr. Jimenez’s shoulders, and twice the size of an adult male. Continue reading »
I’ve used lots of little tricks to get my kids to eat their veggies. Broccoli florets are little trees, and my girls are hungry giants. Cauliflower are snowflakes, and green “crayons” (asparagus) are especially tasty roasted with olive oil or dipped into a side of ranch dressing.
But serving up green beans garnished with the head of a snake? That’s bound to turn kids off greens for good.
Ever think about what happens to those tiny little blood samples nurses take after your baby is born? I sure didn’t. I was just happy to get it done and over with, because no new mama likes to see her brand new baby in pain — even if it’s just a little poke.
But that mandatory little poke is actually a really big deal. It screens for 29 genetic diseases, and it provides early diagnosis for 5,000 babies a year who need treatment.
When those samples are done being tested, they are sometimes stripped of any identifying information and stored. In certain cases, they’re used for research into issues like newborn screening and childhood cancers. But that discovery has some parents complaining that use of their baby’s blood is unethical.
I’m not saying a thing about Texas, because I’m sure it’s a perfectly lovely state. But as soon as I read about kindergartner Taylor Pugh being kicked out of his kindergarten classroom for his moderatlely long hair style, I said to myself, “Must be Texas.”
And I wasn’t wrong. I’m just sayin’.
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