Over the line. Family court judge videoed beating his dtr.

If he was beating his wife like that, everyone would tell her to leave him.

I saw it in a Danish Paper, and was also suprised it was not on A2K,.

That's just appalling. That girl must have felt like she was trapped in that house with a couple of sick bullies.

Yeah - I think the mother is almost worse than the father too. To stand by and watch him do that to her daughter and then tell her to lay on her belly so she could get her licks in too- all the while staying really calm and reasonable like she was the supervisor of the abuse?

If anyone - including their father- ever tried to hit one of my kids like that - I'd ******* pick up a chair and hit him over the head with it .

Yeah - that's sick.

Sadly, if she sued him, his retaliation coud be disinheritance.

It will be no suprize if he leaves his judicial position soon.
He has embarrassed the judiciary.





David

having to live with a psychopath is not worth any inheritance in the world, dave...

In my years (centuries?) of observation,
the worst bullies are parents of the victims.

There was an Italian on the corner who murdered his son,
who was in his 4Os at the time. Thay had quarrelled because their respective dogs had fought.

That can be true.
I don 't choose to dispute it,
but the fruits of successful litigation for assault n battery
might be significantly less than a disinheritance; maybe.





David

It is so sickening - I did not open a thread, because I did not want to relive that video. What can we say, besides the obvious - The man went way beyond mere discipline. He needs to be evaluated, possibly prosecuted - Let the law have its course.

trial lawyers kinda suck, dave...

There was an interview with mother and daughter and the mother said she was brainwashed. The father really lost his temper but the mother is so cold and my impression and in no way lost her temper. There is much more to the story of the parents cooperating on this terribly thing than has come out.
Daughter and mother are very close now - how can you be close to someone who has allowed so much suffering.

So putting up with beatings is more important than to risk not inheriting daddy's money?

David, my family never hit me. My parents were just as abusive as this man and his wife, just not physically.

One of the most freeing days in my life was when I told both of them to go **** themselves. They never expected that because they had all the other children cowed into submission, through fear of not inheriting what they had.

When they finally both did the world a favor and died, I got a little bit, and the others got the bulk.

If I'd gotten nothing, I still would have gotten the better part of the bargain.

People don't have to live in fear like that, especially over money.

I dont have a problem with belt discipline, but this guy is out of control. Some intervention from the state would be wise, but not through the use of the criminal system.

No matter what a woman does there is always a man to be blamed for her actions...even for homicide.

I just don't get it either Saab. What does this mother mean when she says she was 'brainwashed'?

I'm not even related to that girl, but I could barely watch it even at a remove. The minute he started beating her with the belt, I could physically feel myself tensing and wanting to stop him. And I know if I'd been in the room with someone hitting anyone like that, I wouldn't be able to stand there and watch it happen.
My son was sitting here while I was watching it and he couldn't stand hearing it- he was like, 'Can you turn that off - what are you watching? How can you stand to watch that?
I very nearly couldn't.
And my first thought was 'How could this mother stand by and let that grown man bully her little girl like that?'
That's not a normal mother.
Yeah, there's something very wrong there.
But maybe the mother took responsibility for how sick and wrong she was and made a change and apologized to her daughter and that's how they can be close now - who knows?

I don't know how she could be either saab.

Until the end, every conversation with my mother was a guilt trip from her. In our last conversation, I finally asked her "How could you have just stood by and let all that happened?

She said she didn't know what I was talking about. Yeah right.

Edgar, I know what you mean. The only reason I started this was because this has been on my mind since seeing it yesterday, and I thought it might help if I "got it off my chest"

I totally do not get it when people would say things like "you have to love them, they're your parents"

Bullshit. Anyone, including your parents treat you like that, they don't deserve your love, and you're better off without them.

There. I feel better now. Thanks Edgar.

I agree 100%, chai. You have to be a reasonably good parent to deserve the role. After all, all the parents do is have sex and then a child is born into their lives. The act in no way confers automatic allegiance.

What? Where did this come from?

But yeah, if that father is charged with assault and battery, I think the mother should be charged with failure to protect- or even aiding and abetting.

Maybe that's why the girl isn't going to press charges. Maybe she has forgiven her mother and doesn't want her to be criminally charged.

Maybe she really only does want to shame her father into admitting what he really is.

Mothers can and do walk in on their daughters being raped, and to their dying day honestly believe that nothing happened. You are being naive here.

Bull, they were a fully functioning tag team...the mother was just as wrong as was the father. Men use physical force, women use emotional force, and emotional force does more long term damage.