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kpete

(71,986 posts)
Sat May 23, 2015, 09:05 AM May 2015

Dugger Cover-up: Arkansas Police ORDERED To DESTROY Records of Josh Duggar's Alleged Molestation

Arkansas police have destroyed the records of the investigation into Josh Duggar's alleged molestation of five underage girls, a police spokesman announced Friday, a day after the reality TV star resigned his position as head of FRC Action.

Springdale Police spokesman Scott Lewis said Judge Stacey Zimmerman ordered the 2006 offense report destroyed Thursday. Zimmerman didn't return a request for comment on Friday.

"The judge ordered us yesterday to expunge that record," Lewis said, adding that similar records are typically kept indefinitely. "As far as the Springdale Police Department is concerned this report doesn't exist."

Neither Duggar nor his father, a former state representative, returned calls seeking comment Friday.


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/josh-duggar-s-police-records-destroyed

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leftofcool

(19,460 posts)
3. What did you expect? Pedophilia laws don't apply to the Duggars. Dontcha know?
Sat May 23, 2015, 09:14 AM
May 2015

Do I really need a sarcasm tag here?

randys1

(16,286 posts)
4. RWNJ, ie entire Teaparty, (is it coincidence they are mostly white) dont have to follow the
Sat May 23, 2015, 09:23 AM
May 2015

rules made for everybody else.

KansDem

(28,498 posts)
8. Check out this comment from Mike Huckabee
Sat May 23, 2015, 11:18 AM
May 2015

From the article--

"Those who have enjoyed revealing this long ago sins in order to discredit the Duggar family have actually revealed their own insensitive bloodthirst, for there was no consideration of the fact that the victims wanted this to be left in the past and ultimately a judge had the information on file destroyed_not to protect Josh, but the innocent victims," Huckabee wrote.


"...a judge had the information on file destroyed_not to protect Josh, but the innocent victims"

Ya' think, Mike? Got any bridges for sale?

Stryst

(714 posts)
9. So, this is about innocent victims
Sat May 23, 2015, 11:28 AM
May 2015

and yet Josh Duggar is allowed to walk free, and because he's not going to be a registered sex offender, nothing stops him from working with children in the future.

 

B2G

(9,766 posts)
11. Why bother?
Sat May 23, 2015, 11:41 AM
May 2015

It's all over the internet now and everyone knows the identities of the victims.

Which is probably devastating for the girls.

calimary

(81,227 posts)
13. Sometimes, I guess all one can say is "God bless the internet!"
Sat May 23, 2015, 12:00 PM
May 2015

There's no way the GOP can wipe all of that out.

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