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http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/tlc-pulls-19-kids-and-counting-off-the-air-over-molestation-claims-against-josh-duggar/#.VV9yFwim_IU.facebookPolice in Arkansas, where the family lives, said Duggar had fondled the breasts and vaginas of multiple young girls, sometimes as they slept, around 2002.
His father, a former Republican state lawmaker and failed U.S. Senate candidate, posted on Facebook this week, after the claims surfaced, that his son had made some very bad mistakes but the experience had drawn the family closer to God.
Jim Bob Duggar said he disciplined his son and took him a year later with church elders to meet with a state trooper and family friend, Jim Hutchens, who gave the teen a very stern talk but did not take any official action.
Hutchens is currently serving a 56-year sentence for child pornography.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)I heard he was a trooper but I didn't know that he was a preacher as well.
MADem
(135,425 posts)They oughta let "Josh" be the creep's cell mate. They can talk over old molestations together...
Heavy for the irony-impaired.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)That was my first thought. He probably made that kid tell him every detail and enjoyed himself immensly.
central scrutinizer
(11,637 posts)That's pretty stern
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)diabeticman
(3,121 posts)notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)nt
rpannier
(24,328 posts)Honey Boo Boo was pulled after she (june Shannon, the mother) resumed a relationship with Mark McDaniel, who served a 10-year prison sentence for molesting another one of (Mommy Boo) Shannons daughters
Thye pulled Cheerleader Perfection Andrea Clevenger turned herself in to police in Arkansas for allegedly raping a 13-year-old boy and sending him nude pictures
Last August, Will Hayden, the star of the Discovery Channels Sons of Guns, was arrested and accused of raping his then-14-year-old daughter three more victims later came forward saying that Hayden assaulted them, including his co-star and eldest daughter, Stephanie Ford.
Stephanie Ford and her husband, Kristafor Ford, were also arrested last October and accused of beating a 9-year-old boy with a belt
One TLC show that has survived similar incidents is Cake Boss, which was renewed by the network this past January. A former cast member, Remigio Remy Gonzalez, was arrested in March 2010 charged with sexual assault for attacking a 13-year-old girl on two separate occasions.
sounds like they do just awesome background checks
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)I sent an email to the Dish president today asking him to pull the channel from their line-up.
I hope Oprah pulls out of the Discovery Family. Most of their channels suck.
samplegirl
(11,465 posts)they got for the girls!
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)slumcamper
(1,604 posts)Stryst
(714 posts)Isn't there probable cause to check Josh's computer for child pornography? He's an admitted child molester who was associated with someone who was arrested for child pornography.
Quackers
(2,256 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I'm sure they're similar personalities--moralistic religiosity all for show, of course. Birds of a feather, etcetera and so forth.
LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)He Molested his SISTERS -- as in Josh felt up his Sisters, and that is all we know because the girls have not been able in anyway to tell their story of events. Then, they "kept this in the family" until the darn near the legal Statue of Limitations ran out, intentionally.
Next Jim Bob and Michelle worked in unison with their sick, pervert Son Josh - to consistently judge the "Moral Character" of other folks, while hiding what Josh did to his Sisters. WTF?
Thank GOD TLC pulled their show and what a joke of a lying piece of filth show it was. This is disgusting behavior plan and simple. The reality is this -- the Duggar's "protected" Josh to ensure the income from TLC would continue, period at the sake of their Daughters mental and likely physical (we have no idea YET) well being - who were molested by their Son.
I don't know how many of you watched the early seasons of "16 Kids and Counting" but sadly, I admit I did. In particular, years one and two. The Duggar's originally were living in what can best be described as a shack with multiple kids sleeping in the bedrooms together. I believe the house had at best, four bedrooms and numerous structural issues to count.
These SICK, PERVERTED people transformed from the TLC Income from that too small shack of a home with Eighteen folks in it (counting all the kids, along with Michelle and Jim Bob) to a mini mansion based on Arkansas standards, on acres of land.
Mind you, Josh Molested is Sisters TWO YEARS prior to the TLC show start on the air -- as the show has been one the network 10 years. The incident are claimed to have taken place 12 years ago.
Folks really need to digest just how SICK this Duggar family is. Personally, I believe Josh disgusting secret - now exposed - is just the tip of the iceberg/