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Meet the Terrible Porn Publisher Behind the Outing of the Duggar Abuse Story
PJ Tatler ^ | June 6, 2015 | Paula Bolyard

Posted on 06/07/2015 10:10:38 AM PDT by Kaslin

Jill Dillard: "They're used to exploiting women."

In an interview with Fox News host Megyn Kelly that ran on Friday, two of the Duggar daughters who were victims of their brother’s inappropriate sexual touching called out the magazine that illegally released the records that not only revealed the identity of their brother Josh (who was a juvenile at the time), but also indirectly identified the victims.

Jill Dillard, the second daughter of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, told Kelly that she suspected there might be an agenda behind the story. “I mean, I know that the tabloids that released this, even have — you know, they’re used to exploiting women. They have the parent company –”

“Well, Bauer…they’re a major porn provider…” her sister Jessa Seewald interrupted.

“So I don’t know if they are — maybe their mindset, they’re just used to making objects out of women and maybe we just didn’t seem any different,” Seewald continued.

Jill and Jessa are members of the conservative Christian family that has been featured in the reality TV series 19 Kids and Counting, and the young women are spot on about the background of the company that publishes In Touch magazine.

Bauer Media Group, based in Hamburg, Germany, publishes 600 magazines, over 400 digital products, and 50 radio and TV stations around the world, including In Touch magazine, the publication that uncovered the story of the abuse in the Duggar home. They also traffic in porn — some of it Nazi-themed., as you’ll see on the next page.

The Wrap reported in 2013:

But an investigation by TheWrap has found that there is a darker side to the privately held company, including publication of at least one magazine appealing to neo-Nazis, as well as significant involvement in the distribution of pornography — including Nazi-themed porn movies.

These lend perspective to Bauer’s legal woes in the United States, including a $50 million defamation lawsuit by Tom Cruise, filed last October after two U.S.-based publications alleged he’d abandoned his daughter Suri. In fact, Bauer generates dozens of legal complaints worldwide each year about invasion of privacy or libel, according to a lawyer who has frequently opposed them.

The Duggar sisters are absolutely correct. In Touch and Bauer Media Group make money, in part, by exploiting women and trafficking in content that sexually objectifies women. The young women in the Duggar family who were victims of sexual abuse by their brother were victimized a second time by a magazine that treated them, not as accidental collateral damage in their honest efforts to report a legitimate news story, but as an integral part of a business model based on sexual exploitation of women. They exploited the sexual abuse suffered by the Duggar sisters for money, pure and simple. And they’ve done it with countless other women over the years. Disgusting.

Also see: Media Greed Causing Immeasurable Pain to Duggar Daughters



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: childsexualabuse; exploitationpress; jessaseewald; jilldillard; joshduggar; moralpanic; pornification; pravdamedia; sensationalism
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1 posted on 06/07/2015 10:10:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

If I had kids anywhere near that family in the last ten years, I’d be freaking out.


2 posted on 06/07/2015 10:14:39 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: Kaslin

“In an interview with Fox News host Megyn Kelly that ran on Friday, two of the Duggar daughters who were victims of their brother’s inappropriate sexual touching called out the magazine that illegally released the records that not only revealed the identity of their brother Josh (who was a juvenile at the time), but also indirectly identified the victims.”

The magazine did nothing illegal.

Josh 18 when the police report was made.

And the Duggars never asked a judge for the records to be sealed.


3 posted on 06/07/2015 10:16:07 AM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: Kaslin

Does all this mean that Josh did not touch his sisters’ vaginas?


4 posted on 06/07/2015 10:17:53 AM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: Kaslin

ANTI-CHRISTIANS did this....finding out they are in PORN does NOT surprise me.....and the PERSON who released this info must also be into PORN PLUS anti-Christian!


5 posted on 06/07/2015 10:19:17 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Wolfie

IDIOCY....it’s a GOOD Family with a son who made terrible mistakes.


6 posted on 06/07/2015 10:20:18 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Oliviaforever

WHY do you hate the Duggars so much.....I think I know.


7 posted on 06/07/2015 10:21:06 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Kaslin

A judge ruled not just that the records should have been sealed, he (she) ruled for them to be destroyed.


8 posted on 06/07/2015 10:23:04 AM PDT by citizen (WalkeRubio RIGHT For You 2016)
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To: Ann Archy

What makes you believe I hate the Duggars?


9 posted on 06/07/2015 10:23:40 AM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: Kaslin

Story here > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/23/josh-duggars-record-destroyed-police_n_7428762.html


10 posted on 06/07/2015 10:24:54 AM PDT by citizen (WalkeRubio RIGHT For You 2016)
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To: Ann Archy
I agree. It's clear that people made mistakes -- who among us hasn't? And these were serious mistakes, no one denies that. But this incident cannot even be discussed by people now. It is practically mandatory to panic and heap scorn on all things Duggar. To do anything less is to open oneself up to charges that you secretly support vicious child rapists of all kinds.

I see this largely driven by anti-Christian zealots. Which is not to say that the Duggars didn't made serious mistakes.

11 posted on 06/07/2015 10:25:18 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Claire Wolfe should check her watch. It's time.)
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To: Ann Archy

This place is just rife with compassion for a child molester. Well, a certain kind of child molester, anyway.


12 posted on 06/07/2015 10:28:33 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: Kaslin

The Duggar case never made it into the juvenile court system, or any court system, for that matter. The alleged crimes occurred in 2002 and 2003, but the police investigation did not occur until 2006. By that time, Josh Duggar was already an adult at age 18, so the state code covering the confidentiality of juvenile records would not apply to this case, legal experts have said.


13 posted on 06/07/2015 10:32:01 AM PDT by Dallas59 (Only a fool stumbles on things behind him.)
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To: Ann Archy

I have been wondering the same thing?


14 posted on 06/07/2015 10:32:54 AM PDT by MamaB (Heb. 13:2)
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To: Wolfie

“This place is just rife with compassion for a child molester. Well, a certain kind of child molester, anyway.”

It just could be that all teenage boys fondle the vaginas of prepubescent are just making a mistake.


15 posted on 06/07/2015 10:34:12 AM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: Kaslin

Good catch, Kaslin. Thanks for posting.

This story has brought out the very worst in FReepers.

As Doug Giles writes, Hillary’s “McLovin’” it.
JOSH DUGGAR: Hideous Hypocrite Or A Broken Dude Trying To Do What’s Right?
Townhall ^ | June 7, 2015 | Doug Giles


16 posted on 06/07/2015 10:35:01 AM PDT by b9
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To: b9

JOSH DUGGAR: Hideous Hypocrite Or A Broken Dude Trying To Do What’s Right?
Townhall ^ | June 7, 2015 | Doug Giles


17 posted on 06/07/2015 10:37:29 AM PDT by b9
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First - Josh was just a boy. Forgiveness!
Second - The records should not have been released. Gay people!
Third - It was the porn people!

Doesn’t take long for the venom to spew out of these “Christians”.


18 posted on 06/07/2015 10:39:37 AM PDT by jimbo807
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To: b9

Maybe THIS link’ll work. 3rd’s the charm

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3297723/posts


19 posted on 06/07/2015 10:40:41 AM PDT by b9
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To: ClearCase_guy
Doesn't matter. They maybe Christians, but they have put their life on TV for everyone and anyone. When you display your life on TV for profit (Celebrates, pastors, popes, politicians, sports figures etc) every detail of it is subject to scrutiny and criticism.

The Duggar case never made it into the juvenile court system, or any court system, for that matter. The alleged crimes occurred in 2002 and 2003, but the police investigation did not occur until 2006. By that time, Josh Duggar was already an adult at age 18, so the state code covering the confidentiality of juvenile records would not apply to this case, legal experts have said.

20 posted on 06/07/2015 10:41:21 AM PDT by Dallas59 (Only a fool stumbles on things behind him.)
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