Oprah was the one who let the police know about Josh Duggar

[RockaFowler]

Oprah Winfrey wasted no time in canceling an appearance by the Duggar family on her former talk show when she received an anonymous email pointing to allegations of Josh Duggar’s molesting underage girls, some of who included his sisters.

According to a report from TMZ, the email was received by a Harpo staffer on the morning of December 7, 2006. In addition to revealing Josh Duggar’s past, the email also alleged that his parents, Jim Bob and Michelle, covered up their son’s past crimes.

SNIP

The day the email was received, the Duggars were already in Chicago preparing for their taping on the show later that day. By 1:17 pm, an Arkansas State police officer, alerted by the tip from Oprah’s staff, called Josh’s mom Michelle and told her to bring her son back home immediately for an interview.

By that time, the taping of the Duggar’s appearance on Oprah’s show had already been canceled.


http://deadstate.org/oprah-winfrey-canceled-duggar-familys-taping-and-sent-them-home-after-learning-of-joshs-past/

So, TLC went through with this farce of a family even though the allegations were out there before the show started?? Glad that they yanked the show now, but it shouldn't have been on the air at all before all of this.

[In_The_Wind]

1. Thank you, Oprah.

[longship]

30. Oprah?

Do you mean the person who made the career of Dr. Phil who went into jury consulting after he realized that he was the worst marriage counselor on the planet. So what has that utter kook Oprah have him doing? That's right, marriage counseling. Way to go, Oprah.

Then there's John of God, in Brazil, who does scam psychic surgery along with Jesus healing, which never works, BTW. Yup! Oprah supports him, too.

And don't get me started about Jenny McCarthy's anti-vaccination kookery. Yup! Oprah loves her, too.

And then there's Oprah's favorite physician, Dr. Oz, who promotes abject quackery on his program while holding a surgical professorship at the prestigious Columbia University.

And then there's John Edward who claims to talk to the dead, also endorsed by loony, loony Oprah.

Oprah is utterly evil!

[Renew Deal]

2. Has it been proven that TLC knew about what happened?

I mean knew for a fact. Not just an anonymous email.

Oprahs show did the right thing. I bet most would just delete it as conspiracies.

[RockaFowler]

3. Not sure, but how did Oprah know about it??

If she got it anonymously and acted on it, clearly TLC would have gotten something similar when it came time to start an entire Television Show about this family.

All she was doing was a feature on them on her show and she did the right thing in 2006!

[Renew Deal]

5. It was an anonymous email.

It was sent to a generic mailbox. We don't know if a similar message was sent to TLC, if it was viewed/read, and if anyone with decision making authority knew about it.

A lot of those generic mailboxes are not monitored.

[snooper2]

4. They would know that the Pedo wasn't on Oprah's show, I'm sure the producer was with them

They got some 'splainin to do

[Renew Deal]

6. What is the timeline?

Did they start the TLC show before or after the Oprah appearance?

[RockaFowler]

7. After Oprah canned them

The show started in 2008

[cilla4progress]

8. 2006?

WTF??

[RockaFowler]

9. Check out Gawker

http://defamer.gawker.com/the-web-has-known-about-josh-duggar-for-years-when-did-1706258269

They have the whole timeline on this horrible family

[Segami]

10. "..A bizarre turn of events prevented police..

"...and prosecutors from finishing their investigation and possibly prosecuting. The state trooper who originally took the report about Josh shortly before 2005 never followed up. That state trooper was later convicted on child pornography charges and is serving a 56-year prison sentence.


When the state trooper ran into trouble, someone from the Arkansas State Police alerted the Child Abuse Hotline about the Duggar situation that had been sitting inactive. That’s when the Crimes Against Children Division and Springdale Police Department got involved. By then the three-year statute of limitations had passed and it would not have been possible to pursue prosecution of Josh if the allegations warranted, so the investigation was discontinued. “A technicality prevented any further action,” a source familiar with the case told In Touch. “That’s been the biggest regret in all of this.” (The statute of limitations has since been lengthened.)

http://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/19-kids-and-counting-son-named-in-underage-sex-probe-58751

Hmm, the investigating State Trooper was convicted of 'child pornography'..? He allowed this case to sit inactive allowing the three-year-statute-of-limitations to lapse?.......I think there's a lot more to this story......

[R. P. McMurphy]

11. I read here earlier that the State Trppoer was a family friend. n/t

[StevieM]

12. Yep, Jim Bob knew him personally. The case didn't get lost in the shuffle.

It was swept under the rug. The trooper gave him a stern talking to and then sent him on his way.

[Warpy]

14. Isn't the trooper in jug for kiddie porn?

Thought I read that somewhere.

[StevieM]

17. Yes he is. And that speaks volumes. (eom)

[mythology]

27. About what?

How not to get caught while victimizing children?

[wryter2000]

19. Why is there a statue of limitations for this horrendous crime

Sometimes victims remain silent for years. Good Lord.

[Warpy]

13. Oprah Winfrey knows first hand about being molested

so I'm not a bit surprised about this.

I've been disgusted with TLC for years, it's degenerated into a freak show and its prime freaks were a sanctimonious family whose only claim to fame was that Mom had a clown car vagina and didn't mind being bred every year of her life.

Word has it that the Duggar girls who were assaulted have had "counseling." I just hope it wasn't the Christian variety that blames everything female as sinks of iniquity put on earth to trap young Christian men into sin.

That they're finally getting their show yanked is a good thing. Maybe TLC will run something educational for a change.

.....nah.....

[calimary]

15. Even aside from this horrid disgusting mess, it's still beyond me why this family has been

held up as some sort of wunnnnnnnnderful all-American role model family - when the dad suffers from can't-keep-his-pants-zipped syndrome maybe with challenged-manhood issues, or overcompensating for something - in which he's either so damned self-involved or insecure that he feels the need to sire whole townsfull of kids, and mom is nothing but a human hatchery.

What kind of example is that? Is that single-family overpopulation problem something we're supposed to admire? Or emulate? What am I not getting here.

But this, on top of that - with that unapologetic repeat molester CRIMINAL (sorry, but that's what he is. A CRIMINAL) - and letting them get away with it and pass themselves off as this "saintly" "Godly" "wholesome" "family" - makes me wanna !!!!

[Initech]

21. It's truly disgusting isn't it?

White Christian men can get away with some of the most evil, disgusting, perverted, and downright criminal shit and get away with no punishment as long as they repent.

[Thinkingabout]

26. There are lots of all races who gets away with this crime.

[Initech]

16. Now that we got rid of the Duggars, can we get rid of the Robertsons too?

[Dont call me Shirley]

18. Oprah is a class act.

TLC = The Lecher Channel

[GoneOffShore]

20. Almost makes up for her support of her coterie of woo-meisters.

The Great and Powerful Oz, Deepak Chopra, "Dr" Phil, et al.

[Ineeda]

22. I wonder how good ol' Jim Bob

will support his brood without TLC. I know he's supposedly a real estate agent and 'investor', but just to feed them all would be a financial challenge. Good for Oprah, and an investigation is warranted for the authorities' ball drop.

[Bluenorthwest]

23. Word is Cardinal Dolan is advising them on how to hide the wealth from the victims....

Religion is very well practiced at this.

[REP]

29. The victims are mostly his daughters

Or, if you take Jim-Bob's view, the victim is poor widdle Josh.

[libdem4life]

24. I've thought about Oprah...her history...her commitment...and I'd guess she would ask the parents

and confront them with the information straight up...hard to lie to Oprah. All she could legally or morally do was turn it over to law enforcement...and she did. That must have haunted her over the years.

[Omaha Steve]

25. Good job Oprah

K&R!

[dflprincess]

28. I would imagine Josh is in more trouble with his parents (and someof his siblings)

for derailing the gravy train than he ever was for molesting his sisters.

I only wish this would give one of those kids - especially one of the girls - the nerve to jump ship and go public.

[libdem4life]

31. Another angle bothers me.

"a family friend wrote down the accusations in a letter that was then placed in a book in the Duggars’ home. Sometime during 2006, the Duggars loaned the book to another person and the letter was discovered."

How bizarre is that? How would anyone who takes such pains to write this garbage down, a family friend?, put it in a book in the home, in the first place...and the Duggars just happened to loan that same book to "another person" who then alerted LE.

Doesn't pass my smell test. It would seem more appropriate if one of the girls wrote down the story, slipped it into a book and loaned it to someone who would be able to help. Kind of like a message in a bottle/book,