Shocking Take Away (Duggar Interview)

From what I understand, this family made the decision to appear in the show AFTER Josh sexually assaulted the girls. To me it seems to be another smack in the face for the girls to go on television after being sexually abused by their brother, to pretend they are a happy family living the perfect life.
Would it not be hard for the girls to realize that their parents are putting them on television and showing the tv-audience how 'perfect' their lives are?

Then there is the smack in the face that comes this week, with all of this being released to the public. So yeah... honestly, the girls are the ones suffering from this coming out now.
But I truly hope this will also start a process for the girls where their story comes out, someone believes them, someone does not shame them and guilt them for this happening. From what I have read so far, it has been all about Josh. I hope now, the girls will have someone in THEIR corner actually telling them they did nothing wrong and Josh is a molester, and that's all on him.

These girls need to start healing. And it must be extremely hard trying to heal when your molester is paraded on television like the perfect son and father, and you just have to sit and smile and not say a word about what he really is.
Is it beneficial that these reports are coming out now? It's probably really hard for the girls RIGHT NOW. But at least there is a chance of being heard, being believed and ending the adulation of the molester, and those who defended him, on a world-wide syndicated tv-show.

Oh but wait.............Jim Bob said the girls didn't even know they had been touched until they were told by the parents. And then all those *safeguards * were put in place like, all the girls sleep in the same room fully clothed. No hide and seek games, no two children going off alone together. Josh being watched constantly ( although I agree with that one).

Ugh makes me sick.

I agree with everything you said with one exception.

Five people who were abused are now exposed to the public attention and this media circus. They had no say in that. 

After all of this goes away, and it will, the public will move onto the next scandal where does it leave the victims? Can any good come out of this for them? If not, then what does publically destroying this family accomplish?

Had this happened back in 2006 maybe it would be different. These victims have been failed not only by their parents but by the system over and over again. I can't help but think if they wonder if this nightmare will ever end for them.

It's entirely possible it was one of the victims that finally reported it to someone who DID the right thing.

As we've been discussing this over time on here, I know I have mentioned that when I was in practice, I did not have a single child molestation case where the defendant and victim or victims did not know each other well, and in all of the cases except for one, the victim and defendant were related by blood or marriage.

What you are watching in slo-mo disgusting action is why the only one of my cases where the defendant was convicted was the one with the unrelated defendant (although, again, the defendant was well-known to the victims and their families and the victims had actually left their preteens in the care of my late-teen client on purpose all day every day for several months). We think of child molesters as creeps lurking under bridges because evidently those are the only people we're actually willing to prosecute.

See, I think it DID need to be put out there. Josh was working for a very big anti-LGBT organization out there and was voraciously campaigning against gay marriage, and his mother was campaigning against LGBT interests as well. They were publicly calling these people perverts and deviants and yet they had a legitimate deviant pervert right in their own family. They NEEDED to be exposed for their utter hypocrisy. The fact that the girls have gotten caught in the fallout is entirely the responsibility of Josh, Michelle and Jimbob.

In this day and age, with all the information resources out there, we should no longer be surprised by that fact.  Sadly, most victims know their abuser.  It's time for helicopter parents to stop worrying about the evil strangers out there and take stock of those they know and trust around their children.

It doesn't surprise me. I was fondled as a child by my step-grandfather (didn't really know he was a step until I was older). In talking with friends, quite a few were also fondled by step-grandfathers.

If this crime had been reported to the police and been allowed to go through the court system, the records would have been sealed because the victims were minors. Because the Duggars "dealt" with it their way (whatever the hell that means) the police record remained public.

Don't blame the messenger. Blame the Duggars.

I still feel very very sorry for those girls to have been placed on that show to act like they were a big happy family. I think that was extremely cruel of their parents to do to them.

I thought the same thing (1 in 4 and 1 in 6) as well as hearing it happens to boys more often than we know because they are less likely to come forward.  Also, I have read that those that abuse may have been abused themselves.  I do wonder if anything ever happened to Josh as a child.  So sad for the other girls and boys in the family. 

Well that sounds like a nice normal childhood. "Here darling daughters, you must sleep fully clothed so your brother doesn't molest you again."  As if he couldn't feel them up through the clothing.  Asshats.