Posted on 05/21/2015 5:27:00 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Josh Duggar, one of the members of the family that stars in TLC's "19 Kids and Counting" ... was the subject of a police investigation for allegedly sexually molesting 5 girls, some of whom are his sisters.
The story was broken by In Touch Weekly, but TMZ has confirmed with law enforcement that Josh Duggar -- who was around 14 at the time -- was the alleged molester against 5 girls starting in 2002.
According to the police report, Josh fondled the genitals and breasts of the girls, some of whom were sleeping, but sometimes they were interacting with him ... in one case reading a book.
There was another reported incident 9 months later.
According to the police report, the police were not immediately contacted. Instead, Jim Bob, the dad, met with church elders and agreed Josh should be put in a treatment program. The police report says Josh's mom, Michelle, said it wasn't really a treatment center ... they simply sent Josh to a guy who was remodeling a building to do manual labor.
In 2006, the family was scheduled to appear on "Oprah," and before the show someone sent an email to Harpo warning that Josh had molested girls. Harpo forwarded the email to a hotline, which triggered a police investigation.
Cops wanted to question Josh, but Jim Bob lawyered him up and Josh declined the invitation.
Josh, who is now 27, apparently cannot be charged because the statute of limitations has run.
As for the Duggars, one of the family members told investigators, "this entire incident had brought the family closer to God" ... this according to the police report.
(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...
I’m not sure what you think is “fair” treatment for a family who allowed a child molester back into their home to violate even more vulnerable children, and then sold their story and the privacy of those children for cash, but maybe you could enlighten us.
Because to me, none of descriptives for those who sell their own children are nice or “fair” given that they have admitted to what they did.
This is one of those times that conservatives need to step away and make no attempt to defend the indefensible, regardless of how these people have seemed in the past.
Same buddy had a girlfriend, years ago, who had been abused by her brother.
My cousins' boy molested one of his younger cousins, when he was 14.
(So I doubt it is that rare)
I know the boy. I also know of issues in his life since he was young. His dad isn't much of a dad. Watches porn all the time and calls himself the Porn King.
Just connecting with him a couple of times, like young boys needs, and he looks me up when ever I get up there.
Today, he's 19 years old, going to automotive mechanics school. He's TRYING to make something of his life, unlike anybody else in his family. Despite all the things against him.
His shame happened when he was 14. He is 19 now. And has to register as a sex offender his entire life.
I for one hope that he can overcome all the issues in his life.
“What does this make me?”
Did you also touch your sisters while they were sleeping?
He fessed up, took responsibility for his actions, and now he seems to be doing quite well. Success story! Oprah on the other hand remains a perverted sexual deviant.
I'll go you a step further. When I was perhaps 7 and my younger brother 4 or 5, we were playing and my brother fell into a large fire ant mound. By the time he got up they were all over him, biting him as fire ants are want to do, and a young lady passing by (in her army uniform, we were on a military base) came over and brushed him off. She took his shirt and knocked the ants out of it. She even rolled up his trousers to get the ants off his legs (and he was damn grateful to have the ants taken off). There is an eternity of difference between swatting the biting fire ants off a small child's legs, and creeping into the rooms of sleeping female siblings to fondle their genitalia.
It would be you that is uniformed. There are many in this world that don’t watch any TV, let alone brain dead “reality” shows. You would do well to cease your condescention toward those who use their free time for pursuits that differ from yours.
Do you know exactly what happened? Or are you casting stones?
As many have pointed out on other threads, he referred to how his parents told him how it would ruin his life. Not a mention of how it could affect the victims. He is very self focused. I’ve enjoyed the show, but never liked him. I’ve dealt with a relative with a narcissistic personality and have seen those traits in Josh Duggar over the years. Trust me, he needs help as it only gets worse over time.
Funny...the family has moved on quite well...
I was thinking of his wife and kids in the future. I’ve seen the pain caused by a narcissistic personality disorder in a marriage that was “good” for forty years. It gets worse and worse over time and I see things in him that are traits of NPD.
If the story is accurate, his criminality cannot just be wished away.
There are moral absolutes.
Doing this at 14 is one thing...doing it with your sisters is incest, which takes it to a whole new level.
Who did he think he was? Bill Clinton?
Juanita Broaddrick was not 7 years old when Clinton attacked her.
Mountain Man called you an a-hole. Are you going to let him get the last word in?
The attack by the media (by leaking the sealed report) is another assault on the victims. It’s not hard to figure out whom he assaulted (even though the report was redacted). Those sisters he assaulted have now had their privacy violated. No telling what more this could add to their pain from their childhood victimization and reaction/lack of, from their parents.
I’m disgusted all the way around.
I hope that his interaction with his children is monitored.
No, he did not take responsibility. He was not punished, and his father lawyered up when he was 17 to make sure he didn’t gave ANY consequences.
His parents allowed him back in the house after the first, second, and third times it came up. He was free to mplest children over and over and over.
And the police officer, a close friend of the family hand chosen to talk to him is himself now a convicted child molester, serving 60 years in prison.
The head of their church is a convicted child molester. Beginning to see a pattern?
Ah, this explains why Jim Bob didn’t jump ship when Bill Gothard’s sexual abuse of young girls was uncovered.
I guess I will have to see the facts
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