opened the investigation in 2006. Or maybe he just invoked his 5th amendment rights against self-incrimination.

happened to that report but it did open this can of worms. If not for their report this would still be covered up....Wish I could find that blurb I first read this...

I also have to wonder how he was ever in a position to molest anyone, given the tight leash that the kids are kept under. I always assumed that they are not allowed out of the house alone, lest they be tempted to sin. But maybe that is only the girls.

minors whose parents were named as JimBob and Michelle Duggar. They were his sisters -- all 12 or younger at the time.

his sisters. One more wasn't. She is the one whose parents pushed for action. But it appears that by then it was too late because the statute of limitations had expired. Actually, they ran out the clock with the help of a cop (who is now in jail for possession of child pornography). I think that the case was re-opened when someone from Oprah's staff notified law enforcement.

All their accusations against gays are projection.

I see a lawsuit by the duggars.

Obviously a minor is supposed to be sealed of all crimes. I think he needed help but now at his age this is not helping anybody.

no way would I allow any minor children near him.

Child predators are impossible to "cure".

He was not 30 or 40 or 50 -- or even 21. He was a kid, and molesting girls not that far from him in age (since they had breasts).

What he did was wrong, obviously. But I hold the parents more responsible than the 14 year old.

is beyond redemption? No matter what circumstances might have led to criminal acts?

confusion and hormonal turmoil of puberty needs parents who will explain what is going on, why he is experiencing unfamiliar urges, and how they can be dealt with in appropriate ways.

In his family he learned that any possible sexual outlets (and probably sexual feelings or thoughts as well) were sinful and cause for shame. With no guidance and no supervision, he acted out inappropriately, because he had several potential victims available and as the oldest in a family in which the parents expected their kids to pretty much raise each other, he was probably given a lot of authority over his siblings--and as a male, he also absorbed the family's assumption, reinforced by their religion, that females exist mainly to look up to, serve, and obey men.

I have a (now adult) son. We have always communicated comfortably about everything. As a teen, especially a young teen, he was full of questions and concerns, but he always could bring them to me with no fear of being mocked or shamed. In fact, his teenaged friends, both male and female, also brought me the questions and problems they didn't feel comfortable asking their own parents about, because their parents were either too unavailable or too embarrassed to help them.

Heck, one of my college students, a freshman girl away from her fundamentalist family and church for the first time, asked me to help her buy sanitary pads (not tampons, because she'd been taught she wouldn't be a virgin if she used them). She had been made to feel furtive and embarrassed about menstruation, and since her mother always provided her pads, she was too embarrassed to go into the store and buy them herself.

I bet that a lot of boys who are not offered information or guidance to help them understand and deal with the overwhelming feelings and urges they suddenly experience as they go through puberty--especially in our hypersexualized, misogynistic, patriarchal culture--end up crossing the line in their early adolescence as Josh Duggar did. And his family's religious extremism sure wouldn't have helped any, either.

do not offend again, but they must always avoid trigger points.

No matter his age then or now, incest is CREEPY.

and then the subjected the accused to abuse. These people are twisted.

And any minor children removed from the house.

What did Arkansas's mandatory reporter law look like in 2003?

Note the word "felony." And the year, 2006, nine years ago.

http://hollywoodlife.com/pics/josh-duggar-pics/#!1/josh-duggar-police-report-sex-offender-19-kids-1/

When you live and breath and only think of the Bible as literal truth it...I'm not surprised....


Dinah---
When Jacob's family prepares to descend to Egypt Genesis 46:8-27, the Torah lists the 70 family members who went down together. Simeon's children include "Saul, the son of the Canaanite woman."[10] The medieval French rabbi Rashi hypothesized that this Saul was Dinah's son by Shechem.[10] He suggests that after the brothers killed all the men in the city, including Shechem and his father, Dinah refused to leave the palace unless Simeon agreed to marry her[10] and remove her shame (according to Nachmanides, she only lived in his house and did not have sex with him). Therefore, Dinah's son is counted among Simeon's progeny, and he received a portion of land in Israel in the time of Joshua. The list of the names of the families of Israel in Egypt is repeated in Exodus 6:14-25.


Lot and his daughters---

Genesis 19:30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.


And just were did Cane and Seth get their wives when Adam and Eve and children were the ONLY people on the earth..

Genesis 4 tells of the birth of Cain and Abel, Adam and Eve's first children, while Genesis 5 gives Adam's genealogy past that. Adam and Eve are listed as having three children, Cain, Abel and Seth, then "other sons and daughters".[Gen 5:4] According to the Book of Jubilees, Cain married his sister Awan, a daughter of Adam and Eve.[25]


When children are taught that males are to be worship and listen too like they have the voice of God and you have a mother too business doing her ONLY duty God placed her on earth for to bring forth children it makes one wonder what OTHER skeletons are in the Duggar closet.

Palins, Duggars, Donners...

All the same.

TLC? Continuing your roster of freak shows?

"molest kids in public restrooms" if given rights...

OK, I have some vague idea of who these people are, but damned if I haven't tried my hardest not to.

(either that or coming from repressed family that he does, he confused wanting to get laid with being in love).

What is scary is that I think he has a little girl and I doubt that the doormat he married will be able to protect her.

who is called Cinderella Duggar. Jana is the oldest girl and they need her to take care of the younger kids.

Josh has one daughter and another one on the way, due in July. And they plan on following in his parents' footsteps--no birth control, God will decide how big their family ultimately becomes. So he is going to have a lot of daughters. A lot.

Considering that there's no chance of an intentionally childless marriage in their belief system that seems disgustingly reckless.

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