Escaped punishment because of the Statute of Limitations?

[Natey]

As I was unofficially looking into a possible charge of a Police Office aiding and abetting a minor (another recent thread here), I ran into this very troubling article:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/03/texas-judge-caught-on-video-beating-daughter-needs-help/

It is especially troubling when people designated to uphold the law do these kind of things, and somehow seem to get away with it:

"... likely would have been charged with causing injury to a child or other assault-related offenses for the 2004 beating of his then-16-year-old daughter,but the five-year statutes of limitations expired ..."

What would have happened to the rest of us if we were caught doing something like that?

Edit: the YouTube video in the article above is especially troubling to watch, since her mother begins beating the daughter too

 

[Natey]

Some comments, after analyzing that video:
I thought the mother was going to step in and save the daughter. Instead, she beats the daughter with a belt too! What kind of mother says to her daughter "Get on your stomach, and take it like a grown woman!" when a man wants to beat her daughter ?!?! Is that a common Texan phrase/saying, or something?

And the "judge" kept coming back over and over again (after taking short breaks) to beat the helpless girl with that belt of his. This is clearly a *very* dangerous sign of a guy who is really out of control. And that "judge" is still presiding in a court in TX over (child) abuse cases? What hypocrisy!!

Notice how quickly a Corporation deals with an employee who slapped a toddler on a flight (i.e. terminated him). Compare that with how State Government condones far worse behavior, when the Rockport, TX police/sheriff department took a pretty calm approach to this whole issue. Gotta wonder if they play golf at the local country club with that "judge" on the weekends...