NOTHING is private with the Duggars. Nothing. Why the hell should this be?
Dear god I spent years hearing about every stupid detail of Michelle Duggar’s menstrual cycle and childbearing choices. The stupid bitch decides to go for child number nineteen and poor Josie’s premature birth was all over the news for weeks. For years, many of us have been unable to open a newspaper, go online or even walk past a supermarket checkout line without seeing those dumb bastards smirk at us. For years, they’ve literally told us every single fucking thing. Every idiotic thought they have. Worse, they have spent the last ten years of their lives demanding we hold them up as moral exemplars. They’ve also spent that time hiding the abuse.
At the very least the authorities should be entitled to know if anything has happened since then and if efforts have been taken to prevent it from happening again.
If there was a ‘formal police investigation’ than a LOT of mandatory resporters broke the law. Good thing it was actually just discussing it with a family friend (also a mandatory resporter who DIDN’t report, and is now in prison for sex offences!).
Now claiming a ‘formal investigation’? Now that’s disengenuous!
No we understand your position you stupid fuck. Repeat it a few more times and we’ll still find it stupid and steeped in ignorance.
You are uterly incapable of comprehending the whole reason for this thread. You remain blissfully ignorant in your own reality where facts will never get in the way of your dumb ass possitions
They told a family friend who happened to be a state trooper (and is now in prison for his own “youthful indiscretions” with minors.) There was a “formal police investigation” because Oprah’s staff reported the matter to the FBI after a family friend told them about it. It was “dealt with” in the sense that the family sent Josh off to work on a construction site for a few weeks so they could pretend he was getting counseling.
It’s not being exploited because of “the Duggars’ political activism.” I doubt more than a handful of people even knew the Duggars were politically active. It’s being exploited because it’s a horrible story and worse cover-up involving a family that put themselves in the public eye.
No, it’s a crime and it should be exposed (not exploited) to prevent things like this from happening again.
(Although if you agree with their “political activism”, which involves lobbying to deny LGBT individuals their civil rights, then you need to go and masturbate with a chainsaw)
Exactly. The only thing I knew about the Duggars was that they were yet another in an endless string of “reality stars” that I actively ignore. Which one is that? The one with Smith Brothers look-alikes, or the one with the flaming dad in a mansion who knows best? Oh, the one where they have more kids than your average Russian orphange? Ok, I know what freak show you’re talking about now.
Thats the part that kills me. I am a dyed-in-the-wool cynic and I am utterly unsurprised when news like this surfaces from the depths of the shallow gene pool that is reality television. In fact, I won’t rest until every single reality show has at least one national-news-level scandal/meltdown. I have a bingo card I’m preparing and everything.
Neither ‘it was just fondling’ nor ‘the girls were asleep’ pass the sniff test for me. They called sending him away to work hard ‘counselling’, now think how much spin is really being applied here, to everything.
“It depends on the facts as they’re presented to you,…”, stinks to high heaven too, in my opinion. Seems like a lot of ‘looking the other way’ by some ‘good Christians’ in the community. All the way down the line.
Exactly. And I wonder how much ace would want to be “just fondled” by someone older, bigger, in a position of authority over him, that he had to continue to serve, all the while being told it was his fault and that he’d been the one to tempt (defraud) his sibling, even if he was only four. Then his parents could cover the whole thing up, but when exposed, all the focus was on how it was destroying his abuser’s life with nary a word about what he was going through or how he’d been victimized. Wonder how he’d like that?
The insidiousness of Christian “forgiveness” doctrine is that it’s a license to do anything, up to and including rape, murder, and large-scale fraud, for people in the approved political circle, that’s conveniently never applied to those outside of it.
Yes, if “understand” is understood to mean “accurately identify”. No, if “understand” is understood to mean “make sense of”, as it is obviously not possible to make sense of nonsense.
You might want to insert a United Way update or something between “yes, that was wrong” and “…but this is why it’s not such a big deal”.
This isn’t some stupid childish stunt like stealing a rival school mascot or something. This is a serious crime that strongly indicates the perpetrator to be profoundly lacking in internal control (conscience), and thus in need of a heaping helping of additional external control (fear of punishment). I don’t know any effective way to instill the latter other than an initial dose of punishment for the initial offense(s).
“Covered it up” doesn’t count as “dealt with”.
The dishonesty of this claim was addressed by the link in the OP. Read it. Learn it.
No, it’s a crime that is being addressed now because the coverup finally cracked and society does not allow child-molesting criminals to go unpunished.
