Posted on 05/25/2015 10:05:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
Although I always got the feeling they kept churning out kids to keep sponsors happy and the show on the air. When there is no camera around to ensure a profit from continued drama the pressure is off the older kids and they can finally start to slowly break away. Must be an incredible relief to actually live a little after those many years of programmed nonsense.
Wasn’t that nice? /S
And that’s the family whose females have a code word to whisper so that the males can quickly lower their eyes and not be “tempted” by a female. Yet it was perfectly fine for the girl’s fiancee to witness that.
I’ll be honest, Michelle’s baby voice made me clench my teeth.
I bet she could swing a paddle with the best of them though.
From what I have read, the church elders “disciplined” Josh, whatever that means. But his father is also an elder, and there was some blame laid upon the victims as well...something along the lines of cautioning them to be modest. That advice is a joke considering the boy entered their rooms at night and forcibly fondled them while they were in bed.
The problems were indeed covered up. They were given a TV show to portray themselves as moral examples, and nothing was known about it until now. Only the Gothard cult and fellow members knew.
Also, the Gothard counseling material for sex abusers has become widely distributed online. It lays quite a bit of blame on the victim. It was said that Josh underwent counseling; if so, that’s what he would have received.
I suppose the girls slept suggestively. Vile Vixens.
Wow I’m sorry they should have told you first. They did not cover it up. This was to be handle privately. The only cover up is that the public was not inform about it. Well tough luck, like I said this is a private matter that should be handle privately and they did.
This happen before they had the show so why bother to bring up the past?
Also what wholesome image? They never said they were perfect. Anyone who watched their showed and think they were perfect got rocks in their head. I enjoyed their show, because they demonstrated self reliance, family, and Faith. I do not recall 1 episode where they said they were perfect.
So you are saying that a criminal matter is to be handled internally? Based on what exactly?
The father brought the son to that state trooper back in 2003, immediately after the son returned from the three-month "treatment program." Click here for page 14 of the police report.
Then, in 2006, someone else found out what happened back in 2003, and that person called the police department (click here), which started an investigation. By then, the statute of limitations had expired (click here).
Where did you see that information?
So why was it not acted on when first “reported”? Maybe some good ole boy network?
Reminds me of why I refused to jump on the Newt bandwagon with the rest of the FR back in 2012, after Newt reinvented himself as a devout Catholic from Virginia.
And the five year-old. Ugh.
Well she did sit on his lap in her nightie. Someone should have told her that was not modest.
I wish I could give you a source, but I've been reading different accounts over the past couple of days. I know I read that in more than one place.
i think I might have lost a friend over this mess. She and I have been emailing back and forth since before 9/11. I told her what I thought of the Duggars, and she seems to have stopped speaking to me.
I really don’t get the worship of this family.
Probably. Maybe he just wanted to teach the son a lesson by scaring him a little bit. I hope it worked.
I actually pity Josh in a way. He grew up in that stifling hellhole with no outlet. He went way to far with his desires, for whatever reason. That said, what is done cannot be undone.
Had Gothard had the good sense to recommend that young men be taken to the local whore house with 500 dollars, this may not have happened.
It was 4th degree sexual assault. Are not Christians bound to obey the governing authorities? Why didn’t anyone involved contact CPS?
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