According to a new report, a recently uncovered police report shows reality son Josh Duggar was the “alleged offender” in a shocking underage sex abuse probe — and his own father turned him in to authorities!
Jim Bob Duggar caught Josh, then 17, leaving a young girl’s bedroom and called the authorities after he “learned something inappropriate happened.”
A source told the tabloid: “I saw and read the report and it clearly stated that Jim Bob brought his son Josh into the Arkansas State Police and spoke to a state trooper about Josh’s involvement in alleged inappropriate touching with a minor.”
According to reports, Josh was suspected of sexual assault in the fourth degree but the state trooper who took Jim Bob’s statement never followed up.
the magazine claims the officer was later convicted on child pornography charges himself and sentenced to 56 years in prison.
Eventually the Arkansas State Police alerted the Crimes Against Children Division and Springdale Police Department about the situation, but by then the three-year statute of limitations ran out and the case couldn’t be pursued any further.
“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.”
Sgt. Darrel Hignite — identified by multiple sources as the officer who led the investigation into the allegations about Josh — told the magazine: “I can’t comment or discuss [this case] because of the sensitive nature and because it involved a juvenile.”
Now 27, Josh is the executive director of FRCAction, the lobbying arm of the rabidly anti-gay Family Research Council, which works tirelessly to fight against marriage equality, hate-crimes laws, anti-bullying programs and the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.
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Duggar and his fellow FRC leaders routinely accuse LGBT people of child molestation, domestic violence and worse.
“Natural marriage is something that has been clearly defined over the years,” Duggar said at the March for Marriage in April, “Marriage is essential to the American family, and every single child deserves a mother and a father.”
At the same event, Duggar declared that “people of faith are being silenced.”
Ironically, an FRC spokesman declared in 1999 that “one of the primary goals of the homosexual rights movement is to abolish all age of consent laws and to eventually recognize pedophiles as the ‘prophets’ of a new sexual order.”
In an statement to PEOPLE, Josh Duggar, his wife Anna, and his parents Jim Bob and Michelle are speaking out in response to reports that Josh was once accused of molesting five underage girls as a teen.
“Twelve years ago, as a young teenager, I acted inexcusably for which I am extremely sorry and deeply regret. I hurt others, including my family and close friends,” Josh, 27, tells PEOPLE in a statement. “I confessed this to my parents who took several steps to help me address the situation. We spoke with the authorities where I confessed my wrongdoing, and my parents arranged for me and those affected by my actions to receive counseling. I understood that if I continued down this wrong road that I would end up ruining my life.”
Honestly, I’m not surprised…..he comes from a family that freaks out when an unmarried couple HUGS. HUGS. I can imagine all the bs they were taught about relationships. Obviously that doesn’t excuse what he did (and where are people hearing it was his sisters that he touched, I’ve been reading that it was “random” girls)…..and his parents obviously covered it up. Interesting that their “family friend” was a pedophile AND that Jim Bob basically waited until the statute of limitations ran out before bringing him in……
Why has the FBI not gotten involved? Why have his kids not been placed in protective custody? He keeps knocking up his sheep wife, and she’s just serving up kid after kid for him to molest. This entire family needs to be investigated and interrogated and any child under 18 should be removed immediately.
don’t think it is right to destroy this man for a mistake he made as a teen. I also don’t think it is right for people to drag his wife and kids through this. I wonder if the person/persons who released the police report and dug up this dirt even bothered to think about how the victims and his children would feel about this private info being released. This may just open up old wounds for the victims. People are so vindictive and mean.
His behaviour was that of a pedophile. They admit that he never received any real treatment for his seriously deviant acts with his sisters and another girl. The odds are that he is reoffending, possibly with his own child. Do some research about pedophiles.
SORRY? He is apologizing now and sorry only because he is exposed!!! Him, his family elders, his church congregation, and one corrupt and child porn loving Arkansas Police trooper all knew of this, hid him and his sick crimes of multiple molestation against multiple different younger family children for years!!!
Hell!!! They would have NEVER told anyone!!! It only came out be a letter; which was being hidden and buried deep inside a family book, being loaned out and it found!!!
That person contacted Oprah Winfrey ‘ s producers!!! They notified D.H.S. and they notified the police!!!
THIS IS EXACTLY what secretive religious groups, organizations, governmemt, law enforcement, wealthy people, politicians, people of positions, etc. get away with!!!
Him, his aware family members, knowing church members, law enforcement, and anyone else deserve whatever comes to them from this!!!!
Statute of limitations my ***!!! Child molesters are the sickest creatures in existance!!! There is no punishment great enough for them short of taking them out of existance with a legally a appointed sentence in court!!! There should NEVER BE TIME FOR ONE OF THE SICK S.O.B.’S to get away with this sick ****!!!
His father, mother, and others knew it, hid him, helped him avoid punishment, and let these victims never be defended!!!! I hope the entire N.W. Arkansas and Little Rock, Arkansas; (where they sent him from March 2003 until JULY 2003 to work/hide out with a family friend) will shame and outcast those involved in protect and hiding him!!!
I love this family.. We all make mistakes when we are young ..going above and beyond to bring up this man TEENAGE past is crazy!!!!how many of you out there are so innocently you were a teen
Regardless of what it is you did. NONE OF US . His father did what he was suppose to do by taking him and handling the matter. I’m truly going to miss the show it was one out there that still held up to Wholesome values that I could watch with my child. All you haters out there just want to watch tv with things that are degrading. But I hope their children will be fine and the family n hope their faith in a God pull them through
That’s why we have Christ sacrifice for forgiveness as long as we don’t continue to do what we ask forgiveness for. That’s why we need God cause humans one minute love this family and next can hate them for their mistakes they never came off perfect it was the world perception of what they thought of them!!!
They are humble family !!! And that’s what I have to say.
Reply to Jarred Smith
I agree with all you have posted. Everything you have said makes sense. I was a fan of that show, but these allegations are making me sick. All pedophiles are child molesters as far as I’m concerned. Although Webster dictionary claims that is not true. Once a child molester, always a child molester. And when this all happened, Josh was 17, I do not consider that a “young teenager”. It is closer to being an adult, and at that age, this is not curiosity, this is clearly child molestation. And he now has three children of his own, to do as he wants with? That is a complete travesty. He should never be left alone with them, EVER. To think his wife knew about this two years before they married, and went thru with the wedding and promptly reproduced three children is just ludicrous to me. Child molestation is not something you grow out of. I would think it was his dream come true to have the ability to now produce as many offspring as posible for his own “enjoyment” let’s say. Those children are in a serious danger and something needs to be done now. To hell with “the statue of limitations”. This is way to serious of a situation to just let it go away.