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A Texas judge shown in a video beating his teenage daughter in 2004 will return to the bench this week after the Texas Supreme Court lifted his suspension.

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The justices reinstated Aransas County Court-at-Law Judge William Adams on Tuesday, a year after they suspended him with pay when a video of him beating his daughter became an Internet sensation.

Adams is scheduled to preside over cases on the regular court docket Wednesday in Rockport, Aransas County District Clerk Pam Heard told the Corpus Christi Caller-Times for an article in Sunday’s edition.

However, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services will no longer present him with cases involving violence against children.

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County commissioners voted earlier this year to cut Adams’ 2013 salary by 1.6 per cent to $144,000. Other elected county officials received a 2 per cent cost-of-living increase. Adams doesn’t come up for re-election until 2014.