Let's not forget Mike Huckabee has big connections with this family and Josh specifically.

I hope this derails Sarah's candidacy for governor.

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Anonymous wrote:Okay so let me get this straight- Anna KNEW about the investigation and still went on to have another baby with him! I had sympathy for her but no more

Why is it so hard to believe that she herself might have been raped?

this cult teaches girls/women that they CANNOT say no to their husbands

And how do you know this?

Some years ago, there was an episode of Law and Order SVU that was loosely based on the Duggar family. It’s episode 7 from season 17...

Here’s the synopsis...
I'm glad that a previous reviewer mentioned the Duggar family on which this episode was clearly based. Could not remember the name, but the family had to give up their show as too many scandals were attributed to them to sustain the all important ratings.

The Duggars were from Arkansas, the Bakers are from upstate New York and there are places upstate that are as primitive as the Ozarks and have people like Christopher Sieber and Geneva Carr and their children who number their kids in double digits.

These two have a reality TV show and during the taping their 13 year old daughter collapses and it's revealed she's pregnant. The aims of SVU to find a child rapist and the family and those associated with the show is damage control.

This was a great episode and when the perpetrator is unmasked it isn't a surprise, but it still will creep you out,

So...the rapist/perpetrator was the family’s pastor. It makes sense that the Duggar kids would be around a pastor often. Maybe Josh was abused by someone within their “home church”/religious organization. They certainly took many road trips in the early days when the kids were younger. There were probably many times when the kids were unsupervised or meeting with a church leader of some kind.

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Anonymous wrote:Jim Bob and Michelle are 10000% complicit.

I can't get over how Josh is welcome over for big family gatherings and events with all the kids and grandkids, but Jill and her family are the ones who are uninvited, because they no longer go along with JB's orders and optics.

Jim Bob is the grossest.

+1

Jill isn’t welcome bc of birth control and alcohol. But Josh molests kids and he’s forgiven. The thinking is warped. It’s very sad. Lots of therapy and distancing is needed for those Duggar kids.

This is how it works in evangelical circles.

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Anonymous wrote:Domestic terrorism.


It's really weird how some of you almost seem gleefully hopeful it's a child sexual abuse crime.

WTF?

Jesus. STFU. No one is gleefully hopeful that it’s a sex abuse crime. Josh has an established history of molesting multiple children, so it is no leap to think that this crime is in the same ballpark!!

Why you’d jump to “domestic terrorism” says more about your own bias than anything else.

He and his family are known MAGA supporters, with political ties, and ambitions, Josh even held a position in a conservative politically oriented group, one that is on record as supporting Trump multiple times. There's also his questionable financial dealings.

There's more recent evidence that points to insurrectionist ties than child sexual abuse.

Where are the Save the Children QAnoners on this one?

Not a peep. So much projection. "Save the Children" evangelicals indeed.

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Anonymous wrote:Child porn. He’s going away for a long time.

I honestly wish that the death penalty were applicable to child rapists like Duggar. To abuse a child, firstly, is monstrous. To abuse a child sexually, and damage that part of their soul and life for the rest of their lives is just beyond monstrous.

Where are you getting that he is a rapist?

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Anonymous wrote:The worst part of all this? Nothing is going to happen to him. He might get house arrest. But they will let him walk.

No they won’t. You don’t know the feds on child pornography.

I know people who had house arrest and that was it. I am serious when I say nothing will happen.

What was the nature of the CP? How solid was the evidence that they searched for and downloaded it themselves? How many files? I am sure you’re serious but not sure you know what you’re talking about.

This. I posted earlier about the many factors that could influence a plea. Feds take CP very seriously. There are absolutely reasons why individual defendants get shorter sentences or get to plea to lesser charges, but it is absolutely not because Feds would never prosecute possession without distribution or because they don't take CP seriously.

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Anonymous wrote:Jim Bob and Michelle are 10000% complicit.

I can't get over how Josh is welcome over for big family gatherings and events with all the kids and grandkids, but Jill and her family are the ones who are uninvited, because they no longer go along with JB's orders and optics.

Jim Bob is the grossest.

+1

Jill isn’t welcome bc of birth control and alcohol. But Josh molests kids and he’s forgiven. The thinking is warped. It’s very sad. Lots of therapy and distancing is needed for those Duggar kids.

The sad thing is that the Duggars and the people like them are just the extreme end of several scales like religiosity (they’re over in cult land), misogyny, general brokenness, but a lot of people share some parts of their views.

Anonymous wrote:If you haven't watched Meghan Kelly interview Jim Bob and Michelle, it will probably cement your dislike for them.

Link?

Anonymous wrote:Jim Bob and Michelle are 10000% complicit.

I can't get over how Josh is welcome over for big family gatherings and events with all the kids and grandkids, but Jill and her family are the ones who are uninvited, because they no longer go along with JB's orders and optics.

Jim Bob is the grossest.

+1

Jill isn’t welcome bc of birth control and alcohol. But Josh molests kids and he’s forgiven. The thinking is warped. It’s very sad. Lots of therapy and distancing is needed for those Duggar kids.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The worst part of all this? Nothing is going to happen to him. He might get house arrest. But they will let him walk.

No they won’t. You don’t know the feds on child pornography.

I know people who had house arrest and that was it. I am serious when I say nothing will happen.

What was the nature of the CP? How solid was the evidence that they searched for and downloaded it themselves? How many files? I am sure you’re serious but not sure you know what you’re talking about.

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Anonymous wrote:There’s more to this story. I’m betting Josh was molested as a child.

By whom? His Dad? Was there anyone else it could have been? JimBob seems to savvy to take a risk like that.

Probably not JB, the biological parents are not the abusers most of the time (note: MOST). It’s not like the Duggars were isolated away; they attended those conferences all the time, where Josh and his siblings were around unrelated adult men very often. The man in charge of their pseudo-religion, Bill Gothard, was accused of inappropriate contact with young girls. So definitely not a stretch that Josh could have been abused as a pre-teen, and there are plenty of people who could have done it.

Or he could be a sexual deviant who never got therapy or any type of real consequences for his actions and thought he could get away with stuff.

If you haven't watched Meghan Kelly interview Jim Bob and Michelle, it will probably cement your dislike for them.

Jim Bob and Michelle are 10000% complicit.

I can't get over how Josh is welcome over for big family gatherings and events with all the kids and grandkids, but Jill and her family are the ones who are uninvited, because they no longer go along with JB's orders and optics.

Jim Bob is the grossest.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Domestic terrorism.


It's really weird how some of you almost seem gleefully hopeful it's a child sexual abuse crime.

WTF?

Jesus. STFU. No one is gleefully hopeful that it’s a sex abuse crime. Josh has an established history of molesting multiple children, so it is no leap to think that this crime is in the same ballpark!!

Why you’d jump to “domestic terrorism” says more about your own bias than anything else.

He and his family are known MAGA supporters, with political ties, and ambitions, Josh even held a position in a conservative politically oriented group, one that is on record as supporting Trump multiple times. There's also his questionable financial dealings.

There's more recent evidence that points to insurrectionist ties than child sexual abuse.

Where are the Save the Children QAnoners on this one?