[mountn man]

You want "justice"?

I have a great idea.

Let's inundate these girls with the past.
Let's get their minds writhing in righteous anger.
Then let's give them each a knife and let them carry out "justice".

Then, let's give you a knife, so that YOU can enact "justice" on anyone who harmed you in any way.

You ask me what my opinion is in giving these girls justice.

You know what?
I
DON'T
KNOW

Mainly...I'm not any of the girls.

I don't know how or what their relationship with him IS REALLY like.

Have they confronted him?
Has HE confronted them, with HIS SIN?

I
DON'T
KNOW

And neither do you or anybody else on this forum.

THE ONLY ones, to know what "justice" needs to be served, are the ones he molested.

[wideawake]

We have laws for a reason.

The Constitution exists in the place of private justice, partially so that well-connected celebrities like Joshua Duggar cannot bargain their way out of consequences.

Maybe a child molester's victims forgive him. Good for them. We still do not want him wandering around free getting ready to beg forgiveness again from someone else.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

At fourteen, Josh Duggar had sisters as young as three. I don’t think children that young understand “Justice” or “confrontation” or any of the other incredibly WEAK defenses you offer of Josh’s behavior. Those girls would only know a scary, weird, feeling of being VIOLATED. Of not feeling quite right, and of mom and dad (confirmed now by thier OWN insipid FaceBook postings) being more concerned about keeping things “quiet” than making them (their daughters) SAFE. Imagine being afraid to go to bed because “Josh may come in my room.” There is a TON of damage done in ONE incident. Apparently there were many.

[agrarianlady]

I am a Christian, and I know that God will judge.

But I would be tempted by the knife. This is why this young man should not have been allowed back in the home, and the girls needed counseling and protection from the media. Perhaps they were helped, but the brother who molested them was put on a pedastal by the family and given the spotlight on TV. It all seems very unwise.

And this family follows the false teachings of Bill Gothard, and they’ve subjected thousands of young women (and men) to emotional pain by encouraging this teaching. Now, they’ve brought all of their fellow Christians down, because they wanted fame and money rather than having the wisdom to realize that this awful secret would catch up to them, not to mention the children they’ve subjected to this would be hurt yet again.