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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTLC Network: A spinoff of the Duggar family show is cool, right?
I can see why TLC doesn't want to cancel the Duggar show.
"Morally hypocritical" is a huge demographic in the USA.
19 Kids And Counting Spinoff May Be Spawned As TLC Wades Through Duggar Mess
http://deadline.com/2015/05/19-kids-and-counting-josh-duggar-spinoff-tlc-1201433404/
As advertisers bail, petitions abound, and the media feasts on the story, odds of TLC being able to bring back its hit series 19 Kids And Counting without Josh Duggar just got a lot slimmer with a new report patriarch Jim Bob Dugger initially may not have told that Arkansas state trooper the whole story as to what Josh had been doing at home. But with such a large cast to work with, and a hit franchise at stake, TLC is mulling the efficacy of plucking popular newlyweds from the now tarnished Duggar family setting, and launching them in a show of their own, sources say.
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Meanwhile, further dinging the mothership shows squeaky clean practically-perfect family image, the 2006 Arkansas police report about their eventual investigation as to what had been going on at the Duggar home includes an interview with one then-underage family member, whose name was redacted, and who reported parents Jim Bob and Michelle have a rod they use on their children.
The Arkansas state trooper who was first alerted to the child molestation allegations has contradicted Jim Bobs account of how he handled the discovery his son had allegedly fondled several underage girls, including some of his sisters. In 06, Jim Bob told Springdale, Ark. police he had taken Josh to see State Trooper Joseph Hutchens, during which Josh admitted to Hutchens what [he] had done. This account was written up in the police report obtained by In Touch, through a Freedom of Information Act filing, before a judge ordered the police report destroyed.
Hutchens now says Jim Bob only told him about one such incident, not multiple incidents as is now being reported. Hutchens says the fact that he only was told about Josh touching one girl one time, through her clothing while she slept, factored into his decision not to report Josh to authorities. Josh Duggar allegedly molested several underage girls when he was 14 and 15 years old, though the claims were not reported to police until Josh was 18.
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elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)durablend
(7,460 posts)JI7
(89,248 posts)and made a deal with the other kids and focused on just them. but there is no way i can see jim bob allowing it so they would have to go against him and i'm not sure if any of them are up to that.
spanone
(135,830 posts)TeamPooka
(24,223 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)The women whose lives have been ruined by this extreme fundamentalist sect, the children who have been abused in the name of their "GAWD" and the men who have an inflated sense of their value to society. Reality shows that actually cover the REAL facts and not some sanitized version of this perverted cult might be worth watching.