(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.
yes, and Parents, media, Josh, didn’t think of the girls then and now.
As bad as the parents were and Josh having his own kids, those girls don’t deserve to be victimized again by the media.
I know how it feels to have been abused as a kid. You NEVER “get over it”. It impacts for life. To have it splashed, rather gleefully across the tabloids, is media assault on top of what they were forced to live with.
Josh is getting his consequences, I feel for the victims being collateral damage.
I’m disgusted with the Media.
From what has been gleamed from the Police Report, I’m disgusted with Mom/Dad.
I hope his children have been spared and the victims will not have further pain inflicted by the press.