little to me or your mother or with the wrong tone, or you do one little thing, you even [ bleep ] at me wrong, i m going to take you in here and wear your ass out with this belt. that s what it s come to. that s what it s come to. adams leaves the room and doesn t return. all of a sudden i remembered the camera. as fast as i could, i took the camera down and plugged it into my computer. i copied it in a few different places and i erased the tape. hillary says her father s physical violence tapers off after the incident and for the next several years the video remains a secret. that would change seven years later in the fall of 2011 when hillary, 23 and living on her own, decides to release the video after a financial dispute with her father. hillary posts the video on youtube.
she wanted to stop him. but at the same time she had to make it look like she was on his side, otherwise he would turn against her. you turn over, i m going to spank you on your butt. you turn over like a 16-year-old and take it like a grown woman. turn over. she won t. she s disobedient. give it to me. turn over. she was trying to protect me by keeping hold of the belt. because if she took the weapon away from him, hopefully that would make him cool off a little bit. i took the belt away from him and he asked for a bigger one. hallie says she hopes he ll let the matter drop if she makes a show of disciplining hillary. i knew he was outside the room. i was talking loud, talking mean, hoping he would hear me. all the way on your stomach. thank you. hillary is stunned when her mother hits her with the belt.
commission issues adams a public warning about his conduct. two months later adams is reinstated by the state supreme court. up for re-election in 2014, he declined our request for an interview or comment. hallie still struggles with her participation in the beating. i actually really did think about, you know, maybe it might just be better if i took my own life. i did consider that. i regret that i wasn t strong, and i regret that i didn t call the police. hillary says she still hopes someday to reconcile with her father but has no regrets about posting the video. a normal person would not hurt an animal like that. they wouldn t whip a puppy or anything. they wouldn t whip a cat that they find, so why would somebody do that to their own child?
hillary is stunned when her mother hits her with the belt. at that point i didn t understand the complexity of what was happening. i didn t know she was trying to protect me by doing that, by trying to end it sooner. i was terribly confused. i thought she agreed with him. i felt so betrayed. i felt so hurt. there was a lull. i wasn t sure if things were ending or not. then all of a sudden dad came in. i never get my lick on her. get on your [ bleep ] stomach on your bed now. get on your stomach or i m going to start beating you again. he bends down and grabs my hair and lifts me right up to his face. i m going to keep beating you and beating you. the pure evil that was coming out of his mouth right there into my face. if i hear so much as you
bend over that bed. a young girl is beaten with a leather belt. bend over the bed. by her own father, a respected judge. dad just kept coming back with the belt. he kept coming back. get on your stomach on the bed now. i remember thinking he won t top. get on your stomach, i said. why won t he just stop. the year is 2004, rockport, texas. hillary adams, a shy home schooled teenager with a rare form of cerebral palsy has discovered a new world, the internet. i found out there were other people you could find with the same interests as you, even if