Imagine... it must be a nightmare. Most parents try to protect their children. And then your own child... OMG. What should parents do in this situation?
I can only imagine these parents trying to figure out the best route:
Have the child arrested? Would that involve prison time? A Class A Misdemeanor means up to a year in prison. Not sure if that applies to juveniles, too... If so, a 14yo would be sent to juvenile hall, right?
If so, what happens when this kid gets out of juvenile hall? Couldn't prison make matters worse? Then what happens when he returns home?
Or, if he's simply removed from the home, where will he be placed? With another family, only to do the same thing? Or, in a facility, where he might learn from other inmates how to continue the behavior?
Given all these questions, I can understand why this father decided to seek advice at his church, then send the son away to a Christian treatment program involving hard labor for three months, then bring him to a state trooper to scare him some more, and then have him confess and apologize to the family and everyone else, and continue to tell people.
I hope the girls received counseling, too, and I hope they weren't taught to blame themselves. We don't really know what was done for them, besides the confession and apologies they received.
Given the dynamic, the forgiveness was foregone as God’s will.
If he’d been a couple of years older, he’d have gone to prison. Good he didn’t cause the convicts have a code of honor when it comes to molesting children.
Correction: It was a four-month program: http://imgur.com/a/zqPMi#14
It is very difficult to be a parent. We want to protect our kids. But here is the situation. Which has priority, protecting your daughters and other innocent baby girls, or protecting the child molesting teen?
Clearly, the victims. So you need to get the perv out of the house, even though you love the perv, and you need to turn him over to the police or to a reporting psychologist. It will end up being the same thing. The shrink is bound by law to report him to the police. TO PROTECT INNOCENT CHILDREN.
I hope and pray I will never be in such a position. I hope and pray my sons never molest their baby sister. Because if they did, I cannot protect them. I need to turn them in to actual authorities.
Most teens and adults have no sexual interest in small children. Something is BROKEN in pedophiles. They keep their attraction to children forever. If anything it gets worse. I’d divorce that Duggar guy asap and deny him any unsupervised visitation.
The pedophile I know, over the past decades, dropped the object of his “affections” from budding teen to preschoolers. Which was no problem for him as he was principal of a K-8 school so he had access to the full array of ages. He is awaiting trial.