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.
His parents need to have their parenting monitored.
They lawyered up, maneuvered to keep him from facing charges, and the only police officer they ever allowed him to speak to, a family friend, is himself now a convicted child molester serving 60 years in prison for crimes against children.
The head of their church is a child molester. I am beginning to see a pattern. How about you?
They allowed their child-molesting son to return to their home over and over, only to get caught over and over.
We only know their names because they wanted notoriety and fame and sold their children’s lives for cash. If their children’s privacy have been violated, the parents are responsible.
(2) They can also argue that if they did not publicize the crimes, there would be no consequences.
(3) They have a strong argument that there would be no consequences. It looks like Jim Bob Duggar did nothing except (a) sent his son away for a few months for a summer job and (b) tell a state trooper who was a personal friend about it - a trooper who did not pursue the matter further and who did not file a report. That trooper is now serving an effective life sentence for child pornography.
(4) Jim Bob waited long enough for the statute of limitations to run out.
(5) The media is certainly enjoying this ideologically - but the Duggars made sure that it would be a perfect scandal.
(6) The victims probably got no real help, watched as their attacker was mollycoddled and lionized, and the attacker now has small children of his own.
The report wasn’t leaked. They filed a FOI for it.