Josh Duggar Wants To Be Made Whole

Josh Duggar joined the family lawsuit against Arkansas authorities and In Touch Weekly for the former giving the latter copies of 2006 confidential interviews. The ones the Duggars gave about how Josh used to diddle his little sister and her friends in their beds.

The entire slaughter of Duggar kids were told their police interviews would be kept completely confidential if they all told the truth. Including Josh, who confessed to the nasty incest you just knew was going on behind closed 19 and Counting doors. Duggar was never arrested, but told sternly that Jesus loves a sinner, but hates the tiny vagina touching.

In 2015, In Touch Weekly filed a Freedom of Information Act to get hold of the 2006 Duggar confessions. It’s unclear if the authorities were or were not compelled to hand the interview transcripts over. It is clear In Touch published them five seconds after they received them.

According to Josh Duggar’s attorney, this hurt Josh, it hurt Josh a lot:

[Duggar] endured harsh and unwarranted public scrutiny. Defendants’ actions forced Plaintiff-Intervenor to relive painful memories and experiences that occurred almost ten years prior, resulting in Plaintiff-Intervenor suffering severe mental anguish and distress. [Duggar] was also subject to the humiliation and extreme mental anguish of being publicly identified nation and world-wide as the perpetrator of sexual contact as a minor and having the details of the most private and painful aspects of his life released and published.”

This is a twist on the typical assignment of victim versus perp in a child molestation case. Never judge a young man who touches little girls until you’ve walked a mile in his shoes. 

Through all the domestic criminal activity, TLC escaped with only a three month hiatus before spinning the Duggars out into a brand new show minus the kiddy diddler. The insidious rot of basic cable is like turning the water temp up on a frog in a pot so slowly it barely recognizes it’s boiling to death.

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