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Agree that turning it over to the Oprah show instead of directly to law enforcement is...odd. I saw it implied somewhere that the person did not trust the local authorities due to the fame and influence of Jim Bob. (As in he had his trooper friend talk to Josh but that trooper never made a formal report.) Why this comes out NOW is a good question. Certainly the gay activists have been gunning for the Duggars, maybe they just now got around to this incident. Or maybe it is to damage a GOP presidential candidate or two by showing photo ops with Josh.

Still, I go back to - what would be the reaction if a stranger did this, multiple times, to these little girls? Say a neighbor boy, or a friend of a Duggar kid? That would have probably been reported to protect the girls and seek genuine counseling for the boy. Why should the brother not undergo the same scrutiny we would expect of a non-relative? Sadly, the judge just now destroyed the police record for the sake of the victims. Too late, once on the Internet, always on the Internet. I think the Duggars will eventually get past this. Maybe a little much hubris was displayed on the part of some of them. Maybe Josh should have stuck with selling cars...

This person could have gone to the state police or the state attorney if the local officials couldn’t be trusted. Heck, the Child protective Nazi’s just love cases like this, anything to bust Christians including homeschoolers down(most cps’s I think try to do a good job but they get so caught up that they lose perspective sometimes) So the Oprah thingy is what really has me curious.

The judge destroying the records thing won’t matter, the incest motif will still haunt the victims if they were of the immediate family, and will haunt the innocents of the family who may not have been victims. The young man in question, even if he has been leading a God fearing exemplary life since he was 14 has now been destroyed. The “Phil Mahr” type incest and anti Christian jokes will be just horrible and the snickers and the looks anyone with the name of Duggar are going to get will be hurtful and unfair. That is why God condemns gossip mongers...they destroy the innocent with their tongues!(we see what bearers of false witness and gossips can do to vulnerable young girls who after being vilified on Face book, go and kill themselves...so we know the power of gossip and why God hates it!) I am sad and over come for this family. It may have been time to leave the limelight, for just the sake of humility and to be a quiet witness for God...but not like this!