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[danm999]

So the guy who ran for office and had this travesty of a policy position;

http://web.archive.org/web/20030210014933/http://www.jimbob.info/position.html

Found out his son was molesting his sisters but since it's his son the matter was to be handled internally?

What a gaping maw of shit and hypocrisy.

 

[The Beard]

So the guy who ran for office and had this travesty of a policy position;

http://web.archive.org/web/20030210014933/http://www.jimbob.info/position.html

Yeah rape victims, why don't you just put your life on hold for 9months as the baby of a man that violently raped you grows inside of you ? Then you can easily give it up for adoption. It totally won't be extremely emotionally scarring to be reminded multiple times a day that you were raped and your attackers child is growing inside of you. When it's all said and done, it'll be like nothing happened.

Seriously, wtf ?

 

[PhoenixDark]

The Duggars Are Reportedly Working on a Series That Will Shift the Focus Away From Jim Bob, Michelle, and Josh

Amid the controversy surrounding 19 Kids and Counting star Josh Duggar's molestation confession, TLC has mostly kept mum on the show's future — other than to pull all reruns of the series from its lineup last Friday. People reports the reason for the silence might be because the Duggars are trying to think of a spinoff show. According to a source, TLC wants to remove attention from patriarch Jim Bob, his wife Michelle, and their eldest child, Josh, and re-brand the Duggars with a show focused on their daughters, Jill and Jessa, and their lives as newlyweds and new parents. (Jessa, 22, is currently pregnant with her first child.) TLC has yet to comment.

http://www.vulture.com/2015/05/dugg...ff.html?_ga=1.109396998.2002130290.1432846959

 

[Gray Matter]

Where did it say that it was his sisters he molested?

 

[Dram]

http://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/josh-duggar-chilling-molestation-confession-in-new-police-report-59752

Josh Duggar confessed to his father Jim Bob Duggar on THREE separate occasions to multiple acts of sexual molestation against his sisters and a family friend, according to a new police report obtained exclusively by In Touch magazine.

The document also makes clear that Josh was 15 years old when he molested his 5-year-old sister and committed at least SEVEN acts of sexual molestation.

The Washington County Sheriff’s document makes it clear that despite Josh’s chilling confessions the Duggars waited at least 16 months before contacting authorities about the molestations, even though the behavior was continuing and growing worse. During that period they did not get professional counseling for Josh or his victims. Legal experts tell In Touch that Jim Bob and Michelle could have faced six years in prison for their inaction, if the statute of limitations had not expired.

The report details that Josh went from sister to sister, stating, “Apparently all of the girls were sleeping in a common room at this time.”

As In Touch reports exclusively in its new issue, despite Josh’s confession, Jim Bob and Michelle did not get him – or their daughters -- counseling from a licensed mental health professional for at least 16 months. They have said the children did receive counseling but refuse to say if it was court ordered after the Families In Need of Services and the Arkansas Department of Human Services became involved in the Duggar case.

By the time police launched their investigation in 2006, the statute of limitations had expired and police turned the matter over to social services. The Duggars did eventually take Josh to a a state trooper Joseph Hutchens. But Hutchens, who is serving 56 years in prison, said in an interview from behind bars that Jim Bob and Josh told him about only one incident and that’s why he didn’t report it to the child abuse hotline. The new police report states only that Jim Bob said when they visited Hutchens Josh “had admitted to Cpl Hutchins (sic) what he had done.” The police did not independently verify that.

 

[skullmuffins]

jesus christ

 

[Siegcram]

I feel for those girls. Completely neglected and ignored while their parents go out of their way to protect their abuser. Terrible.

 

[FyreWulff]

Watch them get that police report deleted too :/

 

[Dabanton]

Sexually assaulting his 5yr old sister as well as others multiple times and this is the man these evangelicals are rallying around?

 

[Mollymauk]

And he's still around all the kids.

 

[deadlast]

I'm amazed at how the evangelicals are saying all kinds of foul and evil shit about Jenner, but are standing up or not saying shit about this motherfucker.

 

[Princess Carl]

I'm amazed at how the evangelicals are saying all kinds of foul and evil shit about Jenner, but are standing up or not saying shit about this motherfucker.

Media induced cognitive dissonance is stronger than the tensile strength of spider silk and steel fused into one super cable.

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

Sexually assaulting his 5yr old sister as well as others multiple times and this is the man these evangelicals are rallying around?

The institution they're protecting here isn't just this model family, but faith-based healing. They can't say they made a mistake putting it in "God's hands".

 

[kirblar]

I'm amazed at how the evangelicals are saying all kinds of foul and evil shit about Jenner, but are standing up or not saying shit about this motherfucker.

Because they actually believe the things he was taught (and TLC, of course, has been courting them as a demographic for years.)

 

[KingGondo]

I feel really sorry for those girls.

 

[FStop7]

Why are these creepo pod people even still on TV? What kind of sway do they hold with the networks? You can't possibly convince me that there aren't a dozen other families that could have shows that are would be just as popular, minus the insanity.

 

[Dai101]

Why are these creepo pod people even still on TV?

Direct footage from TLC's office meeting

 

[Kyou]

Sexually assaulting his 5yr old sister as well as others multiple times and this is the man these evangelicals are rallying around?

Boys will be boys.

Let he who has not repeatedly molested his baby sisters and family friends cast the first stone

 

[lenovox1]

ETA: Wrong thread.

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

So how'd the Megyn Kelly interview go?

 

[Mad Season]

Jessa Duggar Reveals She Was One Of Josh's 'Victims,' Defends Against 'Child Molester' Label

The Duggar parents said Josh Duggar fondled his sisters when he was a teenager. He apologized for unspecified bad behavior when he resigned last month as a Family Research Council lobbyist.

In another excerpt provided by Fox, Michelle Duggar said there was "so much grief in our hearts" when they heard about the abuse.

"As parents we felt we're failures, you know?" she said. "Here we tried to raise our kids to, to do what's right and know what's right. And yet, one of our children made really bad choices."

As parents, they were devastated, she said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/...034.html?cps=gravity_2689_8841115136861909334

 

[Miles Quaritch]

Sexually assaulting his 5yr old sister as well as others multiple times and this is the man these evangelicals are rallying around?

He's just carrying on a long tradition in that faith, their support and rallying around this travesty of a human being shouldn't be surprising...

 

[Kevyt]

So how'd the Megyn Kelly interview go?

I didn't know there was a Megyn Kelly interview. I can't find anything about it though.

 

[capitalCORN]

I love these rare 'turn the other cheek' moments that evangelicals have to swallow to save the gander. If this was any other industrialized nation, the dissent would be uproarious.

 

[gogosox82]

Jessa Duggar Reveals She Was One Of Josh's 'Victims,' Defends Against 'Child Molester' Label



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/...034.html?cps=gravity_2689_8841115136861909334

I feel for her but why do I have this funny feeling that it was "suggested" to her to says this for "the good of the family". Either that or she was told it was her fault her whole life so now she feels bad that he's getting "blamed" and is defending him.

 

[blackjaw]

I didn't know there was a Megyn Kelly interview. I can't find anything about it though.

Was scripted around the left media hanging the family out to dry and attacking them because they are Christians.

Focused more on the "travesty" of the report leaking out and revictimization (which I understand).

Duggars are now being advised by Mike Huckabee's publicist's firm...so you know it will be good....

 

[Mad Season]

GAG me with a spoon. watch him in this father's day video

http://www.tmz.com/2015/06/22/josh-duggar-fathers-day-video-jim-bob-youtube-video/

 

[Retromelon]

GAG me with a spoon. watch him in this father's day video

http://www.tmz.com/2015/06/22/josh-duggar-fathers-day-video-jim-bob-youtube-video/

Thats sooo...grody

 

[ApharmdX]

Aaand cancelled. It took two months but TLC finally did the right thing. What a train wreck of an organization.

 

[Raxus]

Aaand cancelled. It took two months but TLC finally did the right thing. What a train wreck of an organization.

Even with the delay I commend them for doing the right thing.

 

[Mad Season]

Aaand cancelled. It took two months but TLC finally did the right thing. What a train wreck of an organization.

About time. Too bad they made a ton of money off this ridiculous show

 

[Miles Quaritch]

Aaand cancelled. It took two months but TLC finally did the right thing. What a train wreck of an organization.

I question the delay.

Were they hoping it would blow over? Did they do some polling to see how their channel would be viewed if they kept the show on?

The delay is suspect.