Duggar Scandal Deepens With Lawsuit
A non-Duggar family molestation victim is preparing to file a civil suit against Josh Duggar, sources tell In Touch magazine exclusively in the new issue on newsstands today.
The shocking development means that Josh and his parents Jim Bob and Michelle could be forced to give depositions and testify about Josh’s molestation scandal.
The Duggars likely will have to answer every question as they will not be able to invoke their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination because the criminal statute of limitations has expired.
The family is once again under investigation the Department of Human Services and the fate of their reality show 19 Kids and Counting is still undecided.
The impending lawsuit sets up a nightmare scenario for TLC: if the network brings back 19 Kids and Counting, the show could be on the air while the Duggars are fighting a lawsuit that exposes all of Josh’s secrets surrounding the molestations and how the family covered it up.
To those who claim that this story is somehow not newsworthy or some sort of attack on Christians, it needs to be emphasized that Jim Bob Duggar has for years used multiple media platforms to market his family as exemplars of conservative Christian values above and beyond the family “reality” series, while not only concealing the seamier side of the family’s reality but engaging in an active cover-up of alleged crimes by Josh Duggar in an apparent conspiracy with their cult-like church congregation’s elders.
Oh – there’s this, too:
Tontitown, Arkansas, cops recently took off-duty paid jobs guarding the Duggars while the department has an open investigation into the family.
E-mails obtained exclusively by In Touch through a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that the interim police chief of Tontitown OKed the off-duty work.
Kate Gosselin’s longtime bodyguard Steve Neild — who’s now working for the Duggars — paid off-duty officers from the local force in Tontitown, Arkansas, $25 an hour to provide security at the Duggar family home on May 21, 2015, and Josh’s new home on May 20 and 21 when Josh returned home from Washington, D.C., after In Touch broke the story about his sexual molestation scandal and he resigned from the Family Research Council.
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By: dave-dr-gonzo
David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.
* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.
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tracey marie July 1st, 2015 at 12:48
It is about time, this is not about phoney christians being attacked this is about real children being sexually molested by josh duggar.
whatthe46 July 1st, 2015 at 13:05
yes it is!!!
Bunya July 1st, 2015 at 14:05
The problem I have with the Duggars is that they put themselves up as a pillar of morality, while at the same time trashing those they thought were beneath them (gays, for example). That angers me, and I usually don’t say things like this, but I hope that family goes down – big time.
tracey marie July 1st, 2015 at 14:14
I am with you…but I want them shamed and shunned for allowing sexual predation of children as young as 4 years old and lying and hiding the pedophilia.
Bunya July 1st, 2015 at 15:16
That would be nice, but as you can see, the Catholic church is still going strong after all the atrocities they’ve committed. Unfortunately, low level thinkers are so easily frightened by threats of eternal damnation, that just by muttering the words “Jesus forgave me” is enough to send the sheeple rushing to the Duggars with open arms again. Truly sickening.
tracey marie July 1st, 2015 at 16:43
So true.
cecilia July 1st, 2015 at 17:44
just like to point out that some priests are in jail for touching children. so, not ALL over them got away with it.
and pedo priests is one of my TRIGGERS (“Slowly, I turn…”), so I’m not making excuses. Yes, I wish they had ALL been caught.
But it’s not as if nothing has been done..the work continues….
Bunya July 2nd, 2015 at 10:50
Yes, NOW they’re in jail – after they got caught. NOW the Vatican is in full damage control. The abuse has been covered up for centuries, but instead of doing anything substantial about it, the Vatican just shuffled the rapist priests around from parish to parish, hoping the public wouldn’t be the wiser. And that, to me, is unacceptable.
Chris July 1st, 2015 at 19:54
Cross reference with “see Palin, Bristol.”
Mike July 1st, 2015 at 14:20
If the Duggars are gonna be around for a while I’m demanding an English word for schadenfreude.
ExPFCWintergreen July 1st, 2015 at 15:25
Duggardelight
Merlin July 2nd, 2015 at 12:23
You learned that lip in the “Army air corps”?….:)
Dwendt44 July 1st, 2015 at 15:02
I hope they make them swear on the bible. And the Fifth Amendment doesn’t apply to civil suit depositions.
Bunya July 2nd, 2015 at 11:09
Do you think that by making them swear on the bible, that they’ll tell the truth? Not likely. They follow the bible only when it suits them.
ExPFCWintergreen July 1st, 2015 at 15:24
As the Good Book sez, “Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy publicity into its place; for all they that take the publicity shall perish with the publicity” — or words to that effect.
amersham46 July 1st, 2015 at 18:05
Will the Duggars lawyers offer a group rate
F_cons July 1st, 2015 at 19:51
Maybe Huckabee will give them some of his will never be needed campaign funds
Warman1138 July 1st, 2015 at 20:19
The chickens are coming home to roost.