I’m amazed at how eager conservatives are to jump upon this bandwagon.
I’m amazed at how some conservatives don’t uphold traditional values if the evildoer cloaks himself in a “conservative” fabric.
You call this just some “ stupid kid touching his sister’s junk.” You’re not a conservative if you think child moleststion is a stupid prank. It destroys lives. In the past generations, yes, sexual abuse was kept quiet, BECAUSE THE VICTIM WAS ALWAYS PUNISHED. People took the side of the abuser all the time, because abusers tend to first become pillars of society in order to cover for their abuse. See: Hastert, Dennis. Allen, Woody. Cosby, Bill. Etc.
Thank Gd now victims are finding it is safe to tell what happened to them. They are able to heal and live. Many destroyed their own lives in many ways after keeping that ghastly secret for so long.
The conservative response to this issue should be heavier penalties for child and teen sex abuse, dropping all statutes of limitation (which acts as a get out of jail free card for child molesters), and more protection for children. Not laughing it off as nothing like you are doing.
Traditional for something like this is beating the kid until he gets the lesson. Historically this sort of thing was absolutely taken care of in the family. To this day a large portion if not the majority of parents probably would not go to the cops for touching among their own kids if they were able to put a stop to it themselves if we were to be honest. Some stupid kid touching their siblings....yes even their private parts is probably far more common than people would like to admit. Only in the past few decades has it become fashionable to actually report something like this and only far more recently has it become fashionable to turn it into a nationwide media frenzy.
What do you think is going to do more damage to the daughters? Josh and his fingers coming into contact with their privates years ago or HuffPo, Gawker, and TMZ gleefully expanding what might have been collectively seconds worth of bad touch into 24/7 coverage for the entire world to see and dragging the family in mud for months on end?