While we do not condone illegally downloading songs from file sharing sites, one father in Texas took it a bit far when he discovered his 16-year old daughter downloading from Napster.

In a secretly taped video that has since gone viral on YouTube, the father, a Texas Family Court judge, is seen using a belt to beat his daughter “into submission”. It shows Ms. Adams, now 23, crying and trying to defend herself. It opens with the judge saying, “Go get the belt. The big one. I’m going to spank her now”.

The judge, who will not be prosecuted due to the statute of limitations running, has since declared, “In my mind, I haven’t done anything wrong other than discipline my child after she was caught stealing.”