Texas judge William Adams, who ironically presides over child abuse cases, caused uproar when daughter Hillary Adams uploaded a video on YouTube of him savagely beating her with a belt when she was sixteen years old. According to Hillary, the abuse was not a one-time thing. Her mother, Hallie Adams who has since divorced William, claimed that her ex-husband had bouts of violence caused by his "addiction," which they kept as a "family secret" for a long time. ...

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His absolute attainment of power was potently communicated through the utilisation of a microphone as he spoke of dividing his power between his daughters. ... When Gloucester talks of the "ruinous disorders- of the time, he projects them through the lens of this quaint astrological theorising. ... Lear's daughters Gonerill and Regan sabotage the power structure of the monarchy by falsely professing their love for their father in order to gain power and inheritance. ... The women of the time were tainted by their sexual capacity, whereas men were empowered by it, reinforcing the patriarch...

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