Something that happened over a decade ago?
From the failure of society to tell everybody that they were molested? (Hey, I know if I were molested I'd be telling everybody as many embarrassing, humiliating details as possible. And really appreciate it if others went around getting outraged or horny as they related the details I left out.)
I wonder if they'd want their brother prosecuted at this point. Some people value repentance and forgiveness as a Xian virtue. (Surely nobody that's really a Xian. I mean, Jesus went around helping the poor. But forgiveness played no part in anything he said or did, and at no point did he think anybody could or should change. That's so ... uh ... Squirrel!)
What this guy did was wrong. Sentencing a 14-year-old to jail as a felon is probably a bit harsh. (But here we're in the twilight zone: for some things, a 12 or 13-year-old is capable of making adult decisions, but 17-year-olds need to be protected from zero-tolerance regs.)
The problem is nobody liked the Duggars or their defenders/backers/supporters/fellow-travellers to begin with. The girls are tools to be exploited for political points. The guy--now in his mid-late 20s--is also a tool to be exploited for political points.
Otherwise the focus would be on the victims. And the first thing that the magazine that broke the story would have done, if not after readership, money, and prestige, is ask the girls if they wanted their privacy violated. (And then probably said, "Ah, false consciousness, we know what they want better than those poor, weak, pathetic, duped creatures ever could."
I put all of this under the category of politically expedient gossip or using others without their permission to further personal goals. Neither strikes me as particularly virtuous.
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