Looks like the national media has picked up on it.
CORPUS CHRISTI — A video that allegedly shows a Texas county judge repeatedly hitting his teenage daughter with a belt because of her Internet use has prompted a police investigation.
Rockport, Texas, Police Chief Tim Jayroe said Wednesday that the probe was launched after numerous calls from people who saw the video uploaded onto YouTube.
The investigation will look into claims by Hillary Adams, who says she set up the camera in 2004 to catch what she called frequent beatings by her father, Aransas County Court-at-Law Judge William Adams.
Jayroe said he has not determined the identities of the people in the video nor whether any crimes were committed.
The seven-minute, profanity laced video shows a man hitting a girl repeatedly with what appears to be a belt-like object during an ordeal that started over her downloading music online, NBC News affiliate KRIS-TV in Corpus Christi reported on its website.
The video was posted Oct. 27, but picked up national attention after being posted on the Internet site Reddit.
The video had 300 hits Tuesday evening. As of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, it had 225,000. A few hours later, the video topped 500,000, according to KRISTV.
William Adams admitted that he was shown in the video.
"It happened years ago ... I apologized," William Adams told KRISTV.com.
When asked if he thought the conduct in the video was excessive, the judge said, "It's not as bad as it looks on tape."
More at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45135221/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/#.TrGPDkcRacE
Thats such bullshit!!