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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In reality, what could the police have done to a 14 year old who fondled girls? I don't think it would be more than counseling. [/quote]

Um, it's a felony.

I would be HORRIFIED for anyone that simply suggested counseling for any teenager that repeatedly sexually assaulted girls. [/quote]

Fourteen year olds aren't usually charged with felonies. They're not usually incarcerated either. [/quote]

...and their records are typically sealed.[/quote]

I think that's my issue with this scandal. The privacy of all of the children involved should be respected, and it wasn't. It certainly could have been, but everyone would rather expose them as hypocrites than think about the emotional cost to the victims by making this national news. [/quote]

While privacy should be respected, so should the safety of girls in their own home. Nor should they be paraded in front of TV as one big wholesome perfect happy family, and forced to smile for the cameras while being sexually abused in their own home. Or "forgive" their abusers. That is appalling to me.

I don't like the privacy of victims being violated, but my hope is that this can be a teaching story for (1) the impracticability of isolated living and religious fundamentalism, (2) for victims to not be forced to put on a smile and "forgive" their abusers (as is recommend by the Duggar family, mentors, religious "leaders," etc), and hey, maybe get off your moral pedestal and properly deal with things in your own home, with the necessary outside help. Molestation by a sibling is not some "private family matter" that you deal with alone, or with your insane cult methodology. [/quote]

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