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How the Duggars built their custom home after family molestation
The Daily Mail ^ | 4 June 2015 | SOPHIE JANE EVANS

Posted on 06/04/2015 7:00:16 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar built their custom home with a number of measures that physically separate their sons - including molester Josh - from their daughters, Daily Mail Online can reveal.

The couple, who have 19 children, moved into the sprawling 7,000-square-foot house they designed and helped to build in January 2006 - four years after their eldest son confessed to his sordid actions.

Strikingly, they built their daughters' shared bedroom at the opposite end of their home's second floor to their sons' room - with their master bedroom situated right in front of the girls' one, 'blocking' it.

It means that their sons - including Josh, before he moved out - have to walk past their parents' bedroom if they wish to access their sisters' room. They also have to walk past Michelle's office.

And the girls' and boys' rooms are not only located at polar ends of the second floor - they are also separated by a catwalk that stretches across the family's double-height living room and kitchen.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: childabuse; incest; pedophilia
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To: bjcoop; Snickering Hound

We are going to have to agree to disagree. Yes they were his sisters, and yes it absolutely was wrong. We have different view on what is or is not sexual abuse, and what is or is not a child. The law thought so obviously as the record were sealed, and they should have stayed that way. Even Oprah should NEVER have seen them.

Hope you both have a good night!


61 posted on 06/04/2015 8:06:53 PM PDT by gidget7 ("When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: bjcoop

They never claimed to be upstanding moral people. They simply are people of faith who believe in God’s words.


62 posted on 06/04/2015 8:07:38 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: Snickering Hound

.....”The girls trauma is going to be caused by the illegal releases of his sealed files, not the incident”.....

Well actually the parents took that risk by doing the show knowing this was in their history.

There’s nothing to day that can remain “protected information” no matter what the laws say if someone really wants to make trouble for you....or get a good story they can roll on.


63 posted on 06/04/2015 8:09:54 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

Half of the two story homes in Texas have these types of “catwalks”.


64 posted on 06/04/2015 8:10:50 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (I'm very sad for my country. Personally, I've never been happier.)
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To: skr

Their discourse in the interview presents a far different version than their original testimony to police and the victims testimonies.


65 posted on 06/04/2015 8:11:12 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Before Bruce Jenner there was Mike Penner)
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To: caww

Where do they get their money?


66 posted on 06/04/2015 8:11:14 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (I'm very sad for my country. Personally, I've never been happier.)
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To: miliantnutcase

Exactly, they were a target from the get go when their first show appeared. Liberals HATE all that is God, Country and Families.


67 posted on 06/04/2015 8:11:37 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: miserare

Dang you nailed it again.
“Somehow, I think many of them are the Huckabee people who come out of the woodwork during a presidential campaign season.”

Im not ready to call them the JIM JONES Brigade but its getting real close to that.


68 posted on 06/04/2015 8:13:00 PM PDT by rrrod (Just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.)
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To: Patriot Babe

These people aren’t legitimate——they are members of a cult


69 posted on 06/04/2015 8:13:01 PM PDT by bjcoop
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To: Patriot Babe
They never claimed to be upstanding moral people. They simply are people of faith who believe in God’s words.

Wow.

Josh Duggar as Executive Director of the Family Research Council referred to his family as "The epitomy of Conservative Values".

Just for once can't we have someone who talks the talk who also walks the walk?

70 posted on 06/04/2015 8:14:50 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Bodleian_Girl

Personally I don’t think the facts are actually out there on just what he did or didn’t do.....the police, the parents, and the kid have all had differing stories.

So did the 15 year old actually have sex with the five year old?...that’s questionable as I see it.

At issue was, from a legal aspect, were the parents negligent in how they handled this happening. It doesn’t appear so to me ,with the understanding they had at the time. And apparently the authorities didn’t think so either.

All got counseling of some sort sufficient they all say they handled this 12 years ago and the girls seem to be doing ok with this as well....unfortunately the parents continuing to make this a media matter isn’t helping their situation and creating further issues IMO.


71 posted on 06/04/2015 8:17:44 PM PDT by caww
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To: miliantnutcase

It might help if the parents didn’t use Christianity to justify their own mistakes.


72 posted on 06/04/2015 8:18:07 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Chickensoup

Oh no. These things never happened in the families the anti Duggars are friends with. Or maybe, it’s fairly common but the parents deal with it without telling anyone.


73 posted on 06/04/2015 8:21:19 PM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: gidget7

“All have fallen short.”

Except for the modern day pharisees with their stones in hand, as they propel to perfection.


74 posted on 06/04/2015 8:24:15 PM PDT by ScottfromNJ
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To: MinorityRepublican


If you found what she did with her sister years ago to be disgusting and reason to hound her, then spare us the attempts at trying to run cover for the Duggar guy's antics.
75 posted on 06/04/2015 8:26:15 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Snickering Hound

....”Just for once can’t we have someone who talks the talk who also walks the walk?”......

Well I gotta say if what I did in my teens I would be judged by today then I’d be in a bit of difficulty....depending on what someone might choose to make of it....and it does come down to the critical society we live in today where it’s all upside down and nobody has common sense.

Heck I was a tom-boy so not strange I went with the guys for an overnight tent outing in a neighbors backyard.....today that just wouldn’t be allowed nor tolerated by any who might learn of it beforehand.

Fortunately for me the guys checked the behavior of the other guys regarding any advances which were “normal” for teen boys to attempt. And I was tough enough to smack a couple on my own!


76 posted on 06/04/2015 8:27:27 PM PDT by caww
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To: RIghtwardHo
Those girls were MOLESTED. The lib media bias does NOT change that.

The Liberal Media do not care about those girls. The molestation is an excuse for Liberals to attack the Duggers. Liberals have hated them since the Duggers were first on television. Liberals hate their political, moral, and religious beliefs. Liberals hate the Duggers, including the girls molested by their brother Josh.

77 posted on 06/04/2015 8:27:45 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: miliantnutcase

The media was waiting for this story. Libs HATED the Duggers long before this ever came out.

Sadly the liberals weren’t blinded by their fake facade like conservatives were. Most here were bamboozled myself included. I used to stick up for them when liberals said something horrible about them. Now I look stupid as every other conservative did while making fools of ourselves. That’s the saddest part is that we are naive in our thinking sometimes. Liberals were right on this family.


78 posted on 06/04/2015 8:28:31 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Walker for President 2016. The only candidate with actual real RESULTS!!!!! The rest...talkers!)
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To: napscoordinator

Well said!


79 posted on 06/04/2015 8:29:50 PM PDT by bjcoop
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I do, however, recognize a feeding frenzy by soulless ghouls when I see one.

The problem is that the liberals were right about this family. They were frauds and liars to boot. We overall look like dang fools for believing in this family and believing they were a good family. Liberals saw through what we missed.


80 posted on 06/04/2015 8:30:48 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Walker for President 2016. The only candidate with actual real RESULTS!!!!! The rest...talkers!)
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