Don't hold your breath waiting for an answer.
Thread after thread, some of us asked the same question of the people here screaming that he wasn't punished enough.
According to the Duggar parents and the two daughters, the boy went to the parents and confessed. So, we wondered what these people would do in these parents' shoes, if they had a 14yo son who confessed.
At first, their reply was "call the police," but they had nothing to offer past that.
Eventually, however, some of them did offer more specifics, and murder and castration were among their choices of punishment.
I’ve answered repeatedly. Perhaps you’ve missed it. I’ll say it again.
After the SECOND time, when it was clear it was NOT just hormonal curiousity but in fact predatory behavior he (Josh) should have been removed from the home. Either to his grandparents or an apartment with his father. While he received REAL therapy (Not the Gothard therapy that allowed teen toddler molesters to put partial blame on the ‘immodest sitting’ of their toddler sisters) for this. Firstly to remove HIM from temptation while he got counseling. Secondly to give his sisters a safe space again.
The fact that JimBob did NOT do anything at that point ALLOWED it to progress to felonious behavior which WOULD necessarily involve the cops.
I admit that after the FIRST time (which was in fact predatory, it involved sleeping victims) would have been even better. Sneaking into your sisters rooms at night to cop a feel is NOT normal kid behavior. We’re not talking copping a feel of the babysitter while she’s awake and walking down the hall or in the kitchen fixing a sammich, which would be normal teen kid behavior.
However, DOING anything at that point in ‘02 would have implicated JimBob as a bad parent who wasn’t in control of his family, and in the middle of a senate race, so nothing really was done. JimBob dropped the ball on this. Early and often. And for that reason his oldest son will pretty much always be remembered for nothing else. Such a gift from a father...oy vey.
I’m not the only person questioning aspects of all this
Sarah Palin foremost
Mike Huckabee
Sean Hannity
Rush Limbaugh
Mark Levin
Megyn Kelly
Decent company
Meanwhile look at those savaging the whole Duggar clan starting with the homosexual activist who brought them down as he brags now on Gawker
And including some GenX social lib libertarians like Greg Gutfeld
Some of these people are just too vile
The interview with the girls changed me and my wife
It made us question our first instincts..of which my wife’s is usually keen
She says their biggest sin or flaw besides oddness is naivete