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Meet the Terrible Porn Publisher Behind the Outing of the Duggar Abuse Story
PJ Tatler ^ | June 6, 2015 | Paula Bolyard

Posted on 06/07/2015 10:10:38 AM PDT by Kaslin

Jill Dillard: "They're used to exploiting women."

In an interview with Fox News host Megyn Kelly that ran on Friday, two of the Duggar daughters who were victims of their brother’s inappropriate sexual touching called out the magazine that illegally released the records that not only revealed the identity of their brother Josh (who was a juvenile at the time), but also indirectly identified the victims.

Jill Dillard, the second daughter of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, told Kelly that she suspected there might be an agenda behind the story. “I mean, I know that the tabloids that released this, even have — you know, they’re used to exploiting women. They have the parent company –”

“Well, Bauer…they’re a major porn provider…” her sister Jessa Seewald interrupted.

“So I don’t know if they are — maybe their mindset, they’re just used to making objects out of women and maybe we just didn’t seem any different,” Seewald continued.

Jill and Jessa are members of the conservative Christian family that has been featured in the reality TV series 19 Kids and Counting, and the young women are spot on about the background of the company that publishes In Touch magazine.

Bauer Media Group, based in Hamburg, Germany, publishes 600 magazines, over 400 digital products, and 50 radio and TV stations around the world, including In Touch magazine, the publication that uncovered the story of the abuse in the Duggar home. They also traffic in porn — some of it Nazi-themed., as you’ll see on the next page.

The Wrap reported in 2013:

But an investigation by TheWrap has found that there is a darker side to the privately held company, including publication of at least one magazine appealing to neo-Nazis, as well as significant involvement in the distribution of pornography — including Nazi-themed porn movies.

These lend perspective to Bauer’s legal woes in the United States, including a $50 million defamation lawsuit by Tom Cruise, filed last October after two U.S.-based publications alleged he’d abandoned his daughter Suri. In fact, Bauer generates dozens of legal complaints worldwide each year about invasion of privacy or libel, according to a lawyer who has frequently opposed them.

The Duggar sisters are absolutely correct. In Touch and Bauer Media Group make money, in part, by exploiting women and trafficking in content that sexually objectifies women. The young women in the Duggar family who were victims of sexual abuse by their brother were victimized a second time by a magazine that treated them, not as accidental collateral damage in their honest efforts to report a legitimate news story, but as an integral part of a business model based on sexual exploitation of women. They exploited the sexual abuse suffered by the Duggar sisters for money, pure and simple. And they’ve done it with countless other women over the years. Disgusting.

Also see: Media Greed Causing Immeasurable Pain to Duggar Daughters



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: childsexualabuse; exploitationpress; jessaseewald; jilldillard; joshduggar; moralpanic; pornification; pravdamedia; sensationalism
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To: Ann Archy

Yes...he needs to be KILLED or LOCKED UP FOR LIFE!! Oh, and the girls need 24/7 counseling, and the parents need to have the rest of their children taken from them!!! NOTHING ELSE WOULD SATISFY you People.
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Oh you don’t have to make up lies to attribute to me. I stated what I think should happen now in my post to another Freeper (post 219).


221 posted on 06/07/2015 1:31:55 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: Republican Wildcat

Words you are putting in most people’s mouths so you can respond to arguments that were not made in an effort to discredit them.
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I didn’t put words in mouths. My post is obviously my summary analysis of the behavior, not the words, of Duggar supports. That’s why most post clearly says “Duggar supporters seem to want...” instead of claiming that they “Said they want...”


222 posted on 06/07/2015 1:38:18 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: Bodleian_Girl

He was 15 when he put his hand in his 5 year old sisters panties.

I mean, to everyone defending Josh, is this normally what 15 year old guys do?

When I was 15 my little sister was 5 and this is something that was not on my radar.

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I’m sure your printer just ran out of ink so you neglected this point, but how many 15 year old boys confess something they did that they knew was wrong to their father?


223 posted on 06/07/2015 1:38:24 PM PDT by bramps
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To: ransomnote

If you look at this Duggar Ordeal now as simply another episode of their dysfunctional and weird family then you will understand also that the legalities of what happened
“then” are not the issue today.


224 posted on 06/07/2015 1:46:50 PM PDT by caww
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To: Yaelle

“don’t murder”...Moses might have been a much younger man instead of 80 years old when he led the nation of Israel due to his murdering of the overseer!


225 posted on 06/07/2015 1:47:01 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (If Hitler, Nazi, OR...McCarthy are mentioned in an argument, then the argument is over!)
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To: bramps

I’m completely serious. Is this something that 15 year old guys do to their five year old sisters (fondling their vaginas) that in the eyes of Josh defenders that’s just a normal thing to happen?


226 posted on 06/07/2015 1:48:44 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Gothardism-The cult that created the Duggar train wreck)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

Well, it is Arkansas.


227 posted on 06/07/2015 1:49:25 PM PDT by jimbo807
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To: caww

"Don't forget while buying our Duggar books to also buy the CD or MP3 from our holy but not quite as holy as us cousin Amy!"

228 posted on 06/07/2015 1:52:05 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: jimbo807

Have you ever read Richard Nikoley’s website? He gets bogged down in a ton of food fighting but his back story is sort of interesting as a former IFB.

Full disclosure, I dislike a lot of IFB’s but I am one.


229 posted on 06/07/2015 1:52:56 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Gothardism-The cult that created the Duggar train wreck)
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To: Snickering Hound

Complete with messy-sexy bedhead. Very modest.


230 posted on 06/07/2015 1:53:08 PM PDT by jimbo807
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To: Snickering Hound
Sorry NOT interested in watching people ogle at other peoples body parts on ‘youtub’ or on this site. Something strange about how obsessed some are in all the nitty-gritty details of this mess. Evil Josh, but to repeatedly put on the internet the ugly acts are cool.

I am actually evolving my thinking about those that claim superiority over the Duggars.... I think they are bjClinton voters.... green eyed envy they missed out on getting themselves on tv.... so they play like it on the internet.

I am NOT a fan of the Duggars. They have NO influence upon me and my life. However, I do come to FR and find the ‘GET Duggars at all cost’ bullies and creepy. I intentionally did not go read the leaked document because to me I am invading the victims privacy. I want no part of causing these victims more harm.

None of the bullies and creeps have anything on the Duggars, Christian or otherwise. I can tell just how much you really care about what that daughter thinks/feels.... NOT!!!!!

231 posted on 06/07/2015 1:54:02 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

I have not, but I will check it out.

My problem with the IFB’s was the leadership. There were plenty of good people there, but the men running it were evil and hateful. Lots of congregants knew and didn’t like the way things were run, but they were afraid to say anything.

I voted with me feet, after I shook the dust off at them.


232 posted on 06/07/2015 1:56:04 PM PDT by jimbo807
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To: Just mythoughts

I’m just curious.

When you write these holier than thou scribes do you sit up a little more straight and puff your chest out a bit?

And what is your obsession with Clinton and bj’s? How did that ever come up in this discussion?


233 posted on 06/07/2015 1:59:31 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Snickering Hound

I think it is pretty obvious that since Bill Clinton got a blow job in the oval office, we are attacking the Duggars because we voted for him.

Duh.


234 posted on 06/07/2015 2:01:14 PM PDT by jimbo807
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To: Talisker

You are just defending Duggar who’s a pedophile. He should have to register as a sex offender. Many on here seem to love those in a cult that proclaim to be christians.


235 posted on 06/07/2015 2:07:29 PM PDT by bjcoop
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To: Ann Archy

Pedophiles don’t change their ways.


236 posted on 06/07/2015 2:09:01 PM PDT by bjcoop
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To: mountn man
Gothard TEACHES that victims of sexual assault are partly responsible for their assault (what did they DO to arouse their assailant?)

Might want to find out THE TRUTH about things, instead of what you have heard from biased sources.


Here's the TRUTH: the Duggars are adherents of the Advanced Training Institute, a Bible-based homeschooling program run by Bill Gothard.

Although Gothard was forced to resign as the head of the Advanced Training Institute due to the accusations, the Duggars apparently still follow the organization’s teaching plans, which include lessons on how to deal with sexual abuse in the home.

ATI’s Counseling Seminar curriculum also includes a handout on “Counseling Sexual Abuse,” which examines the many ways that a victim could have brought abuse on him or herself by “defrauding” God: Did you dress immodestly? Were you, perhaps, associating with “evil” friends? You should consider whether you’re guilty and apologize to God.

Here is a page from that handout. Read it and weep for the girls brought up in this cult.



Read more about this at Recovering Grace.
237 posted on 06/07/2015 2:09:29 PM PDT by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender! REMEMBER NEDA)
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To: Snickering Hound
I’m just curious. When you write these holier than thou scribes do you sit up a little more straight and puff your chest out a bit? And what is your obsession with Clinton and bj’s? How did that ever come up in this discussion?

Generally speaking Christians have compassion for victims. NOT one shred of compassion for these victims by the 'GET the Duggars' now crowd. And if that makes me holier than thou in your view so be it!.

bjClinton drug this nation and its children through the sex gutter. How old was Josh Duggar during clintonsim administration of sex? Yet the Reverend Billy Graham cult followers told me that Jesus said 'love the sinner, hate the sin'. I just do not understand why this same bunch are not out there demanding the same of the acts of a 14 year old that confessed....

Further I am sick of the outright LIES, spewed by the GET Duggars NOW bullies and creeps. To disagree with your crew means one is defending the crimes committed. A LIE.

238 posted on 06/07/2015 2:12:35 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: Exit148

These were 5 year old girls. 15 year old boys know right from wrong. Many are charged as adults in murder cases! There’s no possible way you can blame hormones for this. He should have to register as a sex offender.


239 posted on 06/07/2015 2:12:43 PM PDT by bjcoop
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To: Louis Foxwell

He was not a child, he was a teenager. These were 5 year old girls. He should’ve been taken out of the house and charged as a sex offender. Teenagers are charged many times in murder cases, and I’m willing to bet if he committed murder you’d advocate for being charged as an adult. It seems to me that you’re defending them because they claim to be upstanding christians.


240 posted on 06/07/2015 2:14:31 PM PDT by bjcoop
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