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In reply to the discussion: Who's Defending the Duggers Girls - The Real VICTIMS! [View all]polly7
(20,582 posts)And no, it's the girls that need to be focused on. Sexual assault and molestation is something that never, ever leaves you and these girls have the added horror of parents that didn't protect them, didn't notice anything wrong and allowed their molester to be back living with them.
How do you think they see their own self-worth when not even their own parents made sure they were alright, instead choosing to keep filming as though nothing was wrong. They needed professional counseling and to be far away from him.
As brainwashed as they all are and taught to believe God has a reason for everything and to forgive will make it all be ok .... they had to have suffered badly at the hands of their own brother. It would be hard for an adult to reconcile what they endured, let alone a child.
Of course the adults need to be focused on too, but people here seem to have much sympathy for these girls and anger at how they were abused.
And, Josh didn't suffer. He was sent to a family friend's for a couple of months to help build a house. He married, got a good paying job and had children. Doesn't look to me like he suffered at all, until he was forced to apologize in public once he absolutely had to all these years later. His apology focused on himself and how he knew he had to change in order to make his life better. Not much at all about his victims.