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I guarantee you that if my brother molested me or my sister, my dad would be in jail for killing my brother.

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I originally read chi-mo and thought some weird frat

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I didn't read article you quoted. I read another, much more big article. I might have to retract all of my statements.

At no point have I started that what he did was okay it normal.

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Well, if yours is more bigger I'm sure it's also more correcter.

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Dad reported him to police.He also went to counseling.

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According to the article in the OP, neither of these things is true.

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When the family was scheduled to appear on Oprah Winfrey's talk show in 2006, an email was sent to the show warning them about the alleged molestation. The email was written by a 61-year-old female who is not identified.

Harpo Studios faxed the letter to the Department of Human Services hotline. The report was then opened for investigation, leading to the investigation by Springdale police.

When police asked Jim Bob to bring Josh in for an interview in 2006, he attempted to hire a lawyer and refused to produce his son for questioning. At least two lawyers refused to take his case. "Det. Hignite received a voice mail from Mr. Duggar stating that [redacted] had hired an attorney and would not be coming in for an interview."

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This conspiracy is so big it goes all the way to Oprah.

And on the "counseling" good ol' Dad got for him:

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Jim Bob then "met with the elders of his church and told them what was going on." No one alerted the police or any other law enforcement agency. Instead they decided to send Josh to a "program [that] consisted of hard physical work and counseling. James said that [redacted, Josh] was in the program from March 17, 2003 until July 17, 2003."

He said the program was a "Christian program." Michelle Duggar later admitted to police that Josh did not receive counseling and instead had been sent during that time to a family friend who was in the home remodeling business.
Asked about the training center that Jim Bob said Josh was sent to, Michelle told police, according to the report, "it was not really a training center. Det. [Darrell] Hignite asked if the guy [redacted, Josh] talked to was a certified counselor. She said no. She said it was a guy they know in Little Rock that is remodeling a building. Det. Hignite asked if the guy was more of a mentor. She said "kind of."

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Not getting him the counseling tends to suggest what aggiedarlin' is saying has something to it. Real therapy might have exposed something.

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Come on! Who didn't feel up a girl or two under the bleachers at junior high school football games?

Of course, they weren't sleeping.

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I hope the family isn't too damaged and any criminals pay for their crimes. Sounds like some very dark disturbing secrets are in their household. I hope there aren't many families that look up to them

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Y'all never practiced with your cousins and such as kids?

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Y'all never practiced with your cousins and such as kids?

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No. No I did not.

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Personally, I'm glad my entire family isn't judged on what one teenager did 13 years ago.

full disclosure: I've never seen the show. Not even for a minute. All I know about the show and the family is what I've read.

(Never watched Duck Dynasty either)

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Personally, I'm glad my entire family isn't judged on what one teenager did 13 years ago.

full disclosure: I've never seen the show. Not even for a minute. All I know about the show and the family is what I've read.

(Never watched Duck Dynasty either)

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What exactly did your one teenager do?

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Yeah. Just the Mom, Dad and oldest son. You know..the LEADERS of the FAMILY

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Don't forget all those church elders who helped mom and dad decide that manual labor and getting the little girls to forgive their molester was the right way to handle things.

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Someone on twitter is re-tweeting all these pics from Josh Duggar's twitter account...pics of the pedo with GOP presidential candidates like Ted Cruz, Huckabee, Walker, etc. The best part is the pols can't backpedal from the pedo because they'll look like they're abandoning the Jesus freaks. This is like Jade Helm all over again.

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Yeah. Just the Mom, Dad and oldest son. You know..the LEADERS of the FAMILY

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Don't forget all those church elders who helped mom and dad decide that manual labor and getting the little girls to forgive their molester was the right way to handle things.

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I don't know if it was the right way to handle things or not. I wasn't there. I don't know any history that may have contributed one way or another.

I suppose it depends upon what your goal is: Punishment, or rehabilitation.

The truth is, we never really know if things were handled correctly until we see the results of what was done.

What results do we have here:
The perpetrator appears to have remorse and to have not done the same thing again
The victims appear to have been able to get over the issue and move on in a positive way with no long-term repercussions.

Yes, these are only appearances and there may be things that are hidden, but the bottom line is that we are in no place to judge.

I am not in any way defending what he did and I am just reserving judgment on how it was handled.

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How about you judge what they themselves have said?

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