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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think anyone is using the lack of education and access to money as an excuse.

Even if they know better, the system is designed to keep them down. Imagine you have no education, no résumé, no job history, no access to funds, and your family of origin who you might turn to you for support would blame you if your husband did anything like got arrested for a sex crime. And you have five kids. What are your options? Not many and that is by design.

Highly recommend people read about or listen to podcasts featuring Tasha Adams, the wife of the founders of the oath keepers, and Tia Levings memoir about how they really had nothing and had to figure out how to leave. It took years. At least they both had drivers licenses, which is a start, but I’m betting some women in these cults don’t have that.

I’m not saying women get a pass. I’m just saying the system is designed so that they have very few options.

Tia Levings had even fewer resources than Anna Duggar, and her husband wasn't a pedophile, and she still managed to get out and get her kids to safety.

I do not have sympathy for Anna.

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Anonymous wrote:More details on his arrest.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/19/joseph-duggar-arrested-child-molestation-charges

Lawyer side of DCUM, is his confession likely to hold up if he didn’t know a detective was on the line when he said it?

I'm a lawyer but not a criminal lawyer. My understanding is that if the police obtained a warrant for the wiretap or it's a one-party consent state, then it's admissible. One of those two things is probably true because otherwise the cop secretly listening in would be criminal wiretapping.

This is such a weird procedure, to me. In what world is it appropriate to ask the father of a molestation victim to call the abuser, who happens to be his son-in-law, and ask HIM to do the confronting while they're on the line recording. Why wouldn't the police confront him?

I know Arkansas is a shithole but wtf.

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Anonymous wrote:OMG. Absolutely crazy. Am I the only one who kind of feels bad for the wife? I don’t agree with their beliefs but geez…married off in her teens and has five kids with a man who abused a 9 YO?

Maybe she will be the one to leave and write a tell all. Do it, Kendra, you’ll be set for life.

Anna didn’t leave Josh and he has federal charges. These women have minimal job skills and I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t have anything in their name. Not only this but they have to deal with the social pressure from their communities and families about divorce. They aren’t going anywhere.

Not just minimal job skills, the cult does not believe in educating girls so don’t even believe that they have a high school degree. Certainly no college. And just no experience navigating the outside world outside of their homes so it must be very daunting to think of leaving and of course they start having kids really long young so good luck leaving with a bunch of kids on top of no skills.

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Anonymous wrote:All the people who have married into the family are also from cultish families. Just incest and sex abuse all around.

I believe the oldest daughter, who, btw, also has a criminal charge of child neglect because she was left with too many siblings/nieces/nephews to care for and one managed to escape, married a non-cult person. Mind you, she also didn't get married until 34 or 35 which was shocking in their cult.

Nope, he is from a fundamentalist cult family as well.

https://19andcounting.fandom.com/wiki/Stephen_Wissmann

His sister is married to Jeremiah Duggar. These people don't really let their kids marry normals. I think the best you can hope for is to leave the cult together or put some distance between them and your new family once married. I think one of the Duggar girls kind of has this?

I think it’s Jill that married a semi-normal guy with a college education and a normal job.

Yes, Derrick is a lawyer. Was an ADA for awhile and now has his own firm. He seemed to realize that the Duggar kids were getting fleeced by Jim Bob and demanded they give Jill the money she was entitled to. It drove a rift in the family and they have gotten way more mainstream during the quasi-estrangement. No longer in the cult vs a more mainstream sect, moved away, Jill wears jeans, etc.

Jinger wears pants now too! They have both been on-and-off estranged from their parents at various times over the years but I do think Jill's slightly more "worldly" than Jinger, as the fundies would say. Jinger's husband is a pastor and she wrote a book about "disentangling" from "fear-based religion" for women. Jill has a nose ring and talks about buying sex toys lol.

I think Jessa is estranged too but maybe not.

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Anonymous wrote:More details on his arrest.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/19/joseph-duggar-arrested-child-molestation-charges

Lawyer side of DCUM, is his confession likely to hold up if he didn’t know a detective was on the line when he said it?

I'm a lawyer but not a criminal lawyer. My understanding is that if the police obtained a warrant for the wiretap or it's a one-party consent state, then it's admissible. One of those two things is probably true because otherwise the cop secretly listening in would be criminal wiretapping.

This is such a weird procedure, to me. In what world is it appropriate to ask the father of a molestation victim to call the abuser, who happens to be his son-in-law, and ask HIM to do the confronting while they're on the line recording. Why wouldn't the police confront him?

I know Arkansas is a shithole but wtf.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More details on his arrest.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/19/joseph-duggar-arrested-child-molestation-charges

Lawyer side of DCUM, is his confession likely to hold up if he didn’t know a detective was on the line when he said it?

I'm a lawyer but not a criminal lawyer. My understanding is that if the police obtained a warrant for the wiretap or it's a one-party consent state, then it's admissible. One of those two things is probably true because otherwise the cop secretly listening in would be criminal wiretapping.

This is such a weird procedure, to me. In what world is it appropriate to ask the father of a molestation victim to call the abuser, who happens to be his son-in-law, and ask HIM to do the confronting while they're on the line recording. Why wouldn't the police confront him?

I know Arkansas is a shithole but wtf.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More details on his arrest.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/19/joseph-duggar-arrested-child-molestation-charges

Lawyer side of DCUM, is his confession likely to hold up if he didn’t know a detective was on the line when he said it?

I'm a lawyer but not a criminal lawyer. My understanding is that if the police obtained a warrant for the wiretap or it's a one-party consent state, then it's admissible. One of those two things is probably true because otherwise the cop secretly listening in would be criminal wiretapping.

This is such a weird procedure, to me. In what world is it appropriate to ask the father of a molestation victim to call the abuser, who happens to be his son-in-law, and ask HIM to do the confronting while they're on the line recording. Why wouldn't the police confront him?

I know Arkansas is a shithole but wtf.

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Anonymous wrote:More details on his arrest.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/19/joseph-duggar-arrested-child-molestation-charges

Lawyer side of DCUM, is his confession likely to hold up if he didn’t know a detective was on the line when he said it?

I'm a lawyer but not a criminal lawyer. My understanding is that if the police obtained a warrant for the wiretap or it's a one-party consent state, then it's admissible. One of those two things is probably true because otherwise the cop secretly listening in would be criminal wiretapping.

Anonymous wrote:More details on his arrest.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/19/joseph-duggar-arrested-child-molestation-charges

Lawyer side of DCUM, is his confession likely to hold up if he didn’t know a detective was on the line when he said it?

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in a somewhat similar cult that was very insular and without a lot of outside influences (and before the days of the internet) or access to more appropriate outlets for sexual energy.

All sex (other than married couple sex) was evil and bad and wrong. There was no distinguishing between consensual and non consensual or any act. Basically sexual attraction, masturbation and rape were the same. Any sexual desire or sexual urge or need or arousal was just the work of Satan and a personal failing. Nothing was talked about in any detail at all - it was just that anything related to sex in any way was evil. There were a lot of young teen boys who engaged in inappropriate sexual behavior around the ages of 13-15 ish. But even in this environment, the older boys would tell them not to and by the time they were mid teens, almost all of them had stopped.

These guys are men, adults, and with access to the internet and and information and don't even have the excuses the boys in my church / cult did growing up. There is no excuse related to education or religion for the Duggar men.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think anyone is using the lack of education and access to money as an excuse.

Even if they know better, the system is designed to keep them down. Imagine you have no education, no résumé, no job history, no access to funds, and your family of origin who you might turn to you for support would blame you if your husband did anything like got arrested for a sex crime. And you have five kids. What are your options? Not many and that is by design.

Highly recommend people read about or listen to podcasts featuring Tasha Adams, the wife of the founders of the oath keepers, and Tia Levings memoir about how they really had nothing and had to figure out how to leave. It took years. At least they both had drivers licenses, which is a start, but I’m betting some women in these cults don’t have that.

I’m not saying women get a pass. I’m just saying the system is designed so that they have very few options.