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!
As a Conservative I have to say that I am pretty angry at the elder Duggars for making Conservatives look bad. If you are going to parade your huge family on the stage year after year, touting sexual purity, and chaperoning on “courting” dates, and waiting until engagement to hold hands, and waiting until marriage before kissing much less sexual intercourse, then you had better be able to stand up to scrutiny. I loved the Duggars. I agree with modesty and self-control. But having your dating children over age 18 chaperoned so they won’t even kiss a member of the opposite sex before marriage now seems a little ridiculous seeing as they could not chaperone their own son in their own house.