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In reply to the discussion: Josh Duggar Admits Molestation, Resigns from Family Research Council [View all]LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)The report isn't clear who she was, but I've heard it was the daughter of another AR state politician. Not one with a national profile, but another bible banging Baptist who was/is? a good friend of Jim Bob's. The only fallout I'm aware of was that they canceled Josh's betrothal* to their daughter (and to be clear she was also assaulted while napping, it wasn't normal teenage touchy feely nonsense) and then resumed it after he got a talking to from Jim Bob and then canceled it permanently when he was caught in the same behavior again.
They didn't go to the law that I know of, but the whole religious and political movement these people live in is squeamish about any encroachment of the state into the family, so that's really unsurprising.
Their whole social circle knew. Probably by the usual means of the church prayer chain/rumor mill.
Hell, I'd heard about it years ago (but I figured the odds were 50/50 it was a malicious rumor that grew in the telling) and I just read about crazy fundamentalists on the internet.
*underage engagements and even marriages are a thing among these people