It depends on the state. They’re in Arkansas, I think, so 16 would be the magic number. Josh is the eldest so any of the sisters involved would have been, let’s see… 13 or younger.
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christian womb
I think you mean meat clown car.
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Yeah, I’m not advocating he be thrown in jail at this point.
BUT the hypocrisy of them robodialing Arkansas voters to kill LBGT non-discrimination by warning that if it passed trans people would molest your children in public restrooms - while they knew their own super white heterosexual firstborn male child was an actual child molester - makes them completely fair game for the brutal shaming they’re getting now. It doesn’t matter how old he was at the time.
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I came to kind of say the same thing, but if that was the case, the story wouldn’t be printed. If he had been 15 and getting it on with his same-age girlfriend, sure the parents might flip out and bully him into repenting his sinful ways - but then the story wouldn’t be “breaking” all these years later.
In fact, the law in many states allows for a four-year age difference between consenting teens, which can allow for some pretty creepy couples being technically legal. That might explain why he is deeply ashamed but yet a free man. How his parents handled the situation might also have an impact on his attitudes as an adult. Of course none of that ever stopped the internet from convicting somebody and demanding the death penalty.
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So when they start killing cats…
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I believe the statute of limitations may have something to do with that (though I’m not sure if it’s the statute on the acts themselves, or if it’s that combined with the fact that he was a minor at the time). He could have been arrested at the time, but, “Oh, he’s a good boy at heart, this is just one (five+) mistake” is always a factor. Also, apparently the cop that was sent to “talk some sense” into him…is now in prison for child porn charges, so, likely he was by nature a lot more sympathetic to the predator than to the victims.
From what I understand, some of these molestations occured while the victim was asleep (or he believed them to be, anyway), so ‘consent’ is right out the window anyway, age-window or no.
I mean, he was 14-15 at the time and it seems hypocritical to me to say “Kids this age are too young to understand consequences, except when we want to throw them in jail” so I don’t advocate them necessarily sending him to prison or a lifetime on the sex offender registry over this anyway, but he certainly should have, at the time, gotten some kind of record and court-mandated therapy, as well as for the victims, and, as it stands now, nobody should take seriously him claiming some kind of moral high ground when he attacks homosexuality.
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That is absolutely true. It’s right to bring this up. But since we know he was raised in a sexually perverse home, we have a lot more background knowledge about this particular underage offender, so we are in a position to have a more informed opinion about this case.
I’ve read a couple more local newspaper articles on the situation. The girls did not get counseling. His “treatment” was to go work for a family friend’s construction company (the concept of idle hands, I presume). Many of the girls were asleep when he sexually abused them. This is not the best case to argue giving the guy the benefit of the doubt because he was young.
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Good questions, but yes, he and his family have admitted there were non-consensual acts.
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Yeah, I found it interesting that one article stated the statute of limitations for this crime (I guess in that state) was 3 years, which pretty much guarantees that by the time a child is mature enough to speak out, it’s too late for legal prosecution.
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I’m sticking with my policy of not knowing who the hell these people are and staying as far away as I can.
They don’t come to New York, do they? We have a lot of teh gays here. And just plain ol’ regular sinners. Let them know we’re a modern Sodom and Gomorrah, would you?
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Well that’s messed up. The linked article didn’t go into detail just who the girls were and what happened, it was just about his public contrition.
FWIW there doesn’t seem to be a statute of limitations for molestation - people get prosecuted for things that happened over 40 years ago.
One of the girls, I believe, was 4 years old at the time. This isn’t a Romeo and Juliet thing.
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So what did we learn about the Duggars and The Learning Channel? That The Learning Channel will do anything fucking thing for a buck - they ran a “19 and Counting” Marathon yesterday, even after hearing about this; and that the Duggars are a sick bunch of fucks.
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What is actually in my head with this family is…Are we surprised? I think of things like being a sexual predator, or having a psychological diagnosed issue, or a physical permanent ailment as really a matter of odds. There are nature and nurture contributing factors to most if not any of these things…so as a parent of 3 kids I always thought that with each child the odds of having one with some sort of issues of any kind increased. My youngest has ADHD and my middle one has anxiety issues (My oldest remains seemingly perfect which is a different issue wherein her ego runs rampant on how perfect she is).
So if you have 19 kids…aren’t you essentially running into greater odds one might be a predator?
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Amd I have to wonder if you’d develop the same feelings of attachment to siblings if you’re just one in a crowd and don’t get so much parental attention. Growing up s Dugger has got to have more in common with being a Fundamentalist Mormon or a member of a cult like the Family.
Especially when the one person they are ordered to look up to as the perfect role model (their father) is a sexual predator.
That it’s time to check off the next one down the list.
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I’m confused, I thought this was about the oldest of the 19 kids? Or is the dad also a predator? I really don’t follow this closely.
What’s the deal with the father? The “trusted family friend” is a convicted pedophile, but I wasn’t aware of any specific allegations that concern the head of the family other than covering up his offspring’s serial abuse.
and of course, promulgating the sort of lifestyle that makes it easier for males to predate on females–but it would be useful to know if there’s anything more specific–one is free speech; the other is a criminal act.
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