As we discussed yesterday, In Touch Weekly’s latest exclusive cover story is about the Duggars. You know how Jim-Bob, Michelle, Jessa and Jill were all sticking to that talking point that everything that Josh Duggar did was in the past and the family was fully cooperative with investigators (a total lie) and everything was over, over, over? Yeah, not so much. Arkansas DHS is still investigation the Duggars. In Touch does not know (or if they know, they’re not saying) if this current DHS investigation is an ongoing thing related to Josh Duggar molesting his sisters, or if this DHS investigation is something new, related to something other than Josh’s actions. What In Touch does know is that DHS arrived at the Duggar house in late May to monitor a minor child and the Duggars refused access, so the DHS worker called 911. Here is the audio:
The new issue of In Touch Magazine reveals that the Duggar family is under investigation again by the Arkansas Department of Human Services and police were called when the family refused to cooperate. Now, In Touch has the audio of that 911 call made by a representative from the Washington County DHS on May 27 at around 11 a.m. to the Springdale Police Department asking for police assistance when DHS was not allowed to see the minor they were concerned about. In Touch, which broke the story of Josh Duggar’s sexual molestation scandal, has the full transcript of the emergency call in the new issue.
The new investigation comes as the family tries to save its TLC reality show, 19 Kids and Counting, which the network pulled off the air, while determining its fate. Jim Bob, Michelle and two of their daughters sat for interviews with Fox News, attempting to minimize the damage, but much of what they said was widely condemned as misinformation and not full disclosure.
The Duggars made no mention of the fact that they have been under investigation again, but In Touch discovered what they are hiding via another Freedom of Information Act request that produced the 911 call.
After identifying himself as a Washington Country DHS employee and stating the Duggar family address, the caller tells the 911 operator, “We have an investigation and I guess they’re not being cooperative. We have to see the child to make sure the child is all right. So we just need police assistance.” The 911 call was then transferred to Washington County authorities.
DHS records are not available to the public so it is unknown what prompted the investigation. Experts tell In Touch that an investigation can be triggered by a hotline complaint, even an anonymous one, if the trained operator determines the allegation is serious enough that it meets standards for child abuse maltreatment laws.
Huh, did someone call the hotline to complain about the Duggars? Remember, this happened on May 27th, which was a good week AFTER In Touch first began their reporting on the Duggar family. May 27th was six days after Josh Duggar admitted his criminal acts and resigned from the Family Research Council. Did In Touch’s reporting spur someone to call the hotline about the family? Or was this DHS investigation ongoing, something that began before In Touch’s bombshell reporting?
Photos courtesy of Duggars’ social media, In Touch.
TLC still silent. Wow.
I’m sure they are crying as one of their cash cows is slowly dying. Show some pity.
(FYI I’m being sarcastic, I think it’s horrible that TLC isn’t doing more to protect the kids)
Yes. Exactly what part of “You paid, and likely still pay, and profit from working with a felony sex offender and people who covered for a felony sex offender” don’t they understand?
TLC only cares about the bottom line…how much money they can or can’t make. That’s why they haven’t cancelled the show for sure yet. They are waiting to see what happens and how many fans rally around the Duggars; to see if it’ll blow over.
I guarantee that even if they cancel the main show, they will try spinoffs with the older girls who are married. They are not going to just dump a show that’s made them so much money.
As for the kids… not their problem. They pay the parents well and it’s THEIR responsibility to care for their children. Until laws are in place that require each minor on a reality tv show have their own bank account or trust fund, into which a certain percentage or amount of pay goes by law and can’t be touched until they reach the age of majority, then the parents can do what they want with it. And Jim Bob strikes me as the kind of person who would take it all rather than setting up trust funds for his kids. He’ll do stuff like buy real estate and maybe let them live in HIS house rent free for a while to ensure they stay under his thumb, but he likes to be in control of all the money.
I don’t even have the heart to listen to the call.
These poor poor children
The call is pretty bland, just a DHS worker requesting police assistance and the 911 operator transferring the call to the non-emergency number. That’s it.
The recording is just them asking for an officer to come out, nothing more. They clearly released it just so they could prove it happened since we all know the Duggars like to lie.
I’m just…appalled. WTF are they thinking? I really hope that entire network tanks. They would only have themselves to blame for not taking immediate action by cancelling the f*cking show and issuing a public statement condemning the Duggars. But I assume they didn’t do the latter because they knew all about the molestation before they inked a deal with this awful family.
F*ck TLC.
But Kitten,
They’ve been fairly silent in every other child exploitation/abuse case they’ve come across. H3ck, their brand is all about exploiting children — name me one reality show they produce and promote that doesn’t exploit the children involved? I can’t. Hopefully someone else can.
@Kitten, F*ck TLC.
Exactly, they SUCK MORE.
You guys are 100% right—TLC is straight-up trash. This is why I wish we could do cable channels a la carte. I don’t want that garbage to be part of my cable package.
And Investigation Discovery is done for me. Too bad because I enjoyed all the cheesy reenactments but there’s no way I will support any channel owned by Discovery Communications.
So wish we could protest with our money and have cable service a la carte. I would cancel them in a second.
What Not to Wear was a good show, I still miss that one.
But either than that, TLC really does exploit people (hell, even on one of the last ever episodes of What Not to Wear, there was a woman on there who clearly had gender identity issues). They even brought back that friggin Kate Gosselin and her children this year!!! That woman is clearly an abuser, but you know, $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
littlestar
Clinton and Stacy were everything together! Together they were the show. Seperate it wasn’t great at all. And yea… That episode was tough.
And it’s all about the money… But selling out like that doesn’t mean you have to employ the worst of humanity. Thinly veiled child abuse is not the correct route to ratings.
IMO this is a temporary victory for TLC, but will becoming their undoing. Or at least I hope that.
Kitten thank you. I cancelled my cable and told the rep verbatim that I’m not paying for garbage. I can binge watch -what i want- on Netflix or Amazon or whatever. I also cancelled my land line because the phone company sold my information to telemarketers. We can change the world with consumer power.
Business-wise, TLC is caught in an impossible situation. They have their highest rated show tanking because most people are extremely disturbed by these revelations. However, the people who are most upset, aren’t really the demographic of those who watch the show. Those viewers are all over social media DEFENDING this family. This would tell them (if they could find sponsors — good luck with that!) they could continue to enjoy good ratings with this show because the same people who watched it will continue to watch it.
Unfortunately for TLC, they have other shows who’s viewers don’t watch the Duggars and are not emotionally invested in this family, but are outraged. If they keep the Duggar circus on the air, those viewers will leave TLC in protest.
They are just trying to figure out how to keep the money flowing from the Duggar well.
That might be true but when do you do the right thing and PROTECT the children??????
IMO – TLC could care less about the children/families. They’re a business and all they care about is their bottom line. Look at their programming. Exploitation of families with children. Drama brings in ratings. A toddler throwing a tantrum because she doesn’t want to perform on stage for mommy and a crown. An obese family who coupons, does pageants and hey, the mother dates the man who molested her oldest daughter. A man with four wives and Lord knows how many children. All they care about is enough people watch to keep the money flowing.
I didn’t watch the show. I barely watched TLC. I did watch Discovery and many of their side networks. I cancelled my cable recently and made it clear it was because of the Disc package and me not willing to pay anything towards those who would directly or indirectly defend a pedophile/rapist/molester.
General Mills pulled their funding too.
And sadly it really does come down to the wallet. Not protecting children they film. Not investing in their safety. Just exploiting the young while protecting the assaulters.
You make your bed, you lie in it, as the saying goes. There’s a very high possibility that they were aware of this situation when Oprah knew. They had time to cut loses and go in another direction. But SOMEHOW, they are the child abuse channel. How does that keep adding up as a coincidence?
The sponsors are defecting–that’s where TLC is powerless. They can’t run a show with no sponsors.
@Kiddo – You know darn well TLC knew when Oprah did. When she flew that family to Chicago for the interview, then declined to put them on the show and afterwards promptly dropped a dime on them to the Arkansas PD, TLC KNEW. Someone at TLC would have demanded to know why the family was not interviewed as booked and would have been told. They knew and as you said, went ahead and made that foul bed to wallow in.
It still blows my mind that anyone is supporting and defending this mess. And there is no doubt TLC knew about this since day one and the Duggars probably reminded the execs of this fact again and again when this first broke.
I imagine their legal department is busily flipping out trying to find a way to slither out of this mess.
Yup. This is enforced silence. It may confirm they’re in deep.
TLC is holding it’s collective breath waiting to see how this goes. It’s all about the money for them, same as with Ma & Pa Duggar. If public opinion swings in favour of the Duggars, you can bet the show will be back on the air, at least in some form. If it goes the way it should, with the parents & Josh facing civil or criminal prosecution for their crimes, TLC will drop them ASAP with an appropriate “we knew nothing” statement to cover their butts.
On day, I’m telling you, Jana is going to go rouge and tell all.
Why Jana? Just curious.
Red cheeks and all?
Nice!
I see what you did there
She just looks like her soul has been killed slowly. Ugh, I feel so bad for her.
OMG I hope so!
NorthStar
Because she’s the oldest daughter. The one who’s been treated like a live in maid cleaning up around the family this whole time. The one being a mother to her siblings. If anyone knows all this family hides it’s Jana.
And on another note. I hope she gets out and sells that info for a lot of money.. Money she can use to go far away and live a life where she’s not treated as an old and undesired 25 year old.
Can you feel the seething rage I have for the oldest Duggars?
Thanks Florc, I don’t watch the show so don’t know the ins and outs of the family like others do.
I personally dislike ALL reality shows and avoid them like the plague as their “reality” is just so…weird.
THIS X 1,000! Jana seems to get the Cinderella treatment by her family more so than anyone else. TBH, I hope the Duggar kids disown their parents and go off to pursue some type of education and carve out their own lives, independent of and far from the Quiverfull-of-sh*t cult. I read an article recently (I think it was from Gawker), in which a TLC staff member mentioned that one of the Duggar boys had been caught, * ahem * , exploring himself, and Jim Bob threw a kanipshin and tied the kid’s hands together for the duration of the day. I can’t even begin to imagine how humiliating and psychologically damaging this experience must have been, but the Duggars have doomed their kids to become really f*cked up adults.
I read in the comments from yesterday that one of the boys – Josiah/Joseph?- has been repeatedly sent to a Jesus camp to correct his behaviour in the past 2yrs.
I wonder why?
LAK
That’s troubling. Textbook/AK law/Federal law molestation gets you a pass in that family. So what has this boy done to justify a camp where there’s likely strict schedules and programming of sorts…?
The odds 1 child is homosexual are good odds. I hope that isn’t the reason.
Kat, maybe the boy was being punished because his body belongs to Daddy and Josh, not to himself.
I’ve never seen the show either but the InTouch reports prompted me to read about them.
Jana supposedly is or was trying to talk her dad into letting her move away to attend a 4 yr Christian college. She has a younger brother who already attends that same school or another one that requires him to live away from home. But to your point Sarah, it makes sense to me that she is the best candidate for going rogue.
People who are open and have nothing to hide cooperate.
Exactly. If this is from May and Josh is no longer living in that home could it be one of the other children has fallen victim to another sibling? They seem to be specifically interested in checking up on a particular child so I don’t think this is just a residual effect of what happened with him. Their denial of access to that child insinuates they have something else to hide. They know they are under the gun right now and another molestation/incest scandal would destroy them and possibly land them with some jail time. If the walls of that house could talk.
I can’t believe the JimBoob and Michelle can’t see that they themselves are fueling this sh*t storm. They’re practicallty begging the media/ DHS to dig further. If they have nothing to hide, let the authorities in to do their jobs. They sure aren’t very bright. Keep digging, In Touch.
I know it was mentioned before, but there has to be another motive for TLC to still have not said a word. Why do they want to keep this show going this badly?
It’s likely that their lawyers told them not to comment during what may turn into an ongoing investigation.
That said, why haven’t they cancelled the show? Are they afraid it would look like an admission of “guilt” somehow? Like, cancelling would make people sit up and take notice of a situation *that is already public* and getting moreso?
Then again, TLC packaged this insular and predatory cult as entertainment. As one celeb once famously said about another celeb, “There’s a sensitivity chip missing…”
Probably because Honey Boo Boo, Toddlers In Tiaras, John and Kate Plus 8, and OctoMom just weren’t up to the intellectual standards of the network so they really want to keep the Duggars on air for the betterment of their reputation.
A much-needed chuckle in the middle of this sordid mess.
🙂
I didn’t realize these were all on the same network. Someone needs to pull the plug.
Octomom had her own show?
Someone from DHS should have known to call the non-emergency number for the police — not 911. Unless DHS wanted the call recorded….and the emergency services were/are aware of them needing/wanting the calls to be recorded.
I imagine it was done purposefully to ensure the call was recorded considering the situation
Yeah.I think they need to protect themselves, too, so we don’t end up with a case of outrage over DHS not doing anything or any follow-up. Putting the call on the record immediately stops any speculation that they weren’t doing their jobs. I think that’s probably more the motive for the 911 call, rather than it being an attempt at getting the call out to the public, for sensationalism-sake.
So I found this out! In very rural communities, there really isn’t a non-emergency police line. I apologized to the 911 operator when I couldn’t find the non emergency number in our phone book. She said it was okay that our county didn’t really get a lot of calls.
That could be the case. Makes sense.
This is the case where I live. My neighboring county is larger and has a non-emergency number.
And yet another shoe of ewwwww drops: BuzzFeed has an article stating that the co-author of Mike Huckabilly’s books (and a ‘prominent Christian author’) has been accused of child molestation in two separate legal cases:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/co-author-of-mike-huckabee-books-was-accused-of-child-molest#.xuqoq0aWk
“Spokespeople for Huckabee did not return a request for comment.”
Oh GAWD.
As we said yesterday, like attracts like.
Those poor children. 😥😢😪
(And no wonder they see this as “normal” and “happening in other families” — they surround themselves with child molesters)
This doesn’t surprise me. A lot of these holier then thou people are the biggest weirdos.
aims, it’s the old “Look over there at those sinners!” while being the biggest one there is.
just like all the politicians (ex: Larry Craig) who rail against “the gays” and equal rights for gay people, and then end up “toe-tapping” in a public bathroom. so much of that extremist stance is rooted in distracting others from one’s own terrible behavior.
The world IS full of sinners — so what’s one more sin????
I’ve heard that from people like this too. Justifying their behaviour is a full time job.
aims
It’s those who claim these things so loudly it makes you wonder why they need to exclaim so much. They’re hiding things. They’re on a power and respect high feeling extra boastful and untouchable so they do as they like.
Ugh this family…
And Huck? What are you hiding having so many close ties to people with the same sketchy behavior…
That’s exactly what I thought, florc. What is Huck doing associating himself with so many sketchy people?………. What’s he hiding?…
Remember the good old days when we could use quaint expressions such as “What a surprise! (Not).”
Wow. Gross.
Whoa.
So did the police show up to the Duggar home? We’re the folks from DHS able to see the child?
Isn’t it something that all subscribers to TLC can see the kids doing what their parents want them to show the world, but people actually concerned with child welfare can’t see them affected by what their parents don’t want to show the world?
Exactly. It’s not as if the younger children ever had privacy.
Maybe they had to delay so they could get the kids’ scripts ready.
Why is he still being allowed around his kids? Someone should take his damn kids away, the boys but most definitely the little girl.
I have a question… Why do reality tv families, I’m thinking Honey Boo Boo, The Duggars, Duck Dynasty, ACCEPT to become celebrities and welcome cameras in their home, knowing they have such squeletons in their closet???? I don’t understand 🙁
Ego. Ego. Ego.
And money. Money. Money.
Duggars also – esp. the father and his political buddies – think they are exemplars and the world needs to see them and act like them.
Which brings it back to ego.
You’re right!
And money.
They worship the Allmighty Dollar and It reigns supreme. (Any other religion is used to prop up their beliefs)
Money and arrogance.
Anyone who does a reality TV show possesses some level of arrogance. Add the prospect of wealth to a narcissistic personality and you have the perfect fuel for delusions of grandeur and an almost sociopathic disregard for everyone/everything else.
I think these people get so much smoke blown up their asses by these profitable networks that they start to think they’re bulletproof.
I have nothing in my life to hide, but I sure as hell would never sign up to do a reality show. Sure I’ve sinned, but I’ve never done anything remotely reputation ruining, and there’s not enough money in the world for me to expose my, or my family’s, life to the world.
Right? Privacy is so f*cking underrated these days.
Why? I think Michael Jackson said it best.
“Anything….anything… Anything for MONEY, lie for you, die for you…even sell your soul to the Devil!”….. The “Devil” being TLC….. Smh
What everyone else said above me.
And to add, the Duggars aren’t particularly bright and thought they could manipulate us all. Jim Boob is exactly what his name says he is, a boob (no offense meant to all the actual smart boobs out there).
Assuming this investigation was the result of an anonymous call to the hotline (which it might not have been), surely the “trained operator” has to get some sort of sufficient corroboration or specific evidence before sending in the authorities, right?
I could totally see Jim Bob and Michelle refusing to let the investigator in, claiming that some rando called the hotline and made stuff up when in actuality that isn’t what happened. I think it will be harder for outside people to protect those kids now, even with all the scrutiny, because Jim Bob and Michelle are on red alert to rebuff outside intervention.
IF there’s substantial evidence that a child or children is/are in danger, cooperation from the parents becomes a moot point.
The fact they were checking on one child in particular makes me think this was already an on going investigation. I’m sure since the story broke they (child protective services) have gotten hundreds of calls from random people reporting the parents. Wonder how they handle that.
That’s what I was thinking. A person who has studied the show would have info about the family, house, routine, etc. They would need to cull out those type of callers somehow.
All calls on the hotline get follow up unless determined to be a prank call, child playing with phone etc. If the caller says the child is in danger, neglected, or abused, by law they must follow up. Think of the legal ramifications if the operator decides not to send someone to check. Better to check 100 false accusations than to miss a chance to save a child. Also, the same anonymous caller can call in again after the check and they will follow up again even if the accusations were determined to be false the first time.
This is not exactly true. The people who work on the hotline are trained to evaluate claims and weed out the ones that are not credible. There’s limited resources, they can’t go knocking on every door because of a nosy neighbor or ex-friend with a grudge. While I’m sure they err on the side of caution they also can’t go around traumatizing half the kids in a county on a whim.
God Bless the USA.
In Canada it’s next to impossible to get these kinds of records released.
Shh. We don’t want people like the Duggars here.
We have people like the Duggars here, though mo
st of them were made uncomfortable enough to leave.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/lev-tahor-ultra-orthodox-jewish-sect-quietly-moves-to-guatemala-1.2744971
Uh oh, now at the risk of getting all political.
Canada requires a massive overhaul of its FOI. Trust me, I work with it on a daily basis.
It would be helpful in various ways to get more records released in Canada, not just criminal matters, but all kinds of transparency matters. The Duffy matter is the tip of the iceberg.
I’m wondering if all countries within the Commonwealth have increased privacy laws when compared to USA. Yeah, the Loyalists and all that. They needed protection. It’s difficult to change history which dictates law, but more legislative changes are needed to keep up with the times.
We do though :(. The people in Bountiful, BC have plenty of similarities to the Duggars – female subjugation being #1.
Citresse – I read just this morning how now that the Duffy trial is underway, some people want MPs to be audited too now, considering how easy it is for regular people to “pay” for senators expenses.
I’m late, but it’s weird to have the government overly tight-lipped yet at the same time medical records of various individuals were released to the US border services – some Canadians with prior mental-health issues that left them no threat to anyone were denied entry. How did agents of one country get medical records from another? Shakes head…
Even worse when FOI and certain other records are corrupted. But I believe if you keep at it long enough and you have some help, the truth wins.
Hate InTouch with a passion, but I want them to keep digging with this story. This needs to be made public and I hope that TLC gets bombarded with this and they cancel, but they just can’t let go of this cash cow, no matter how much dung they expose and this cow is laying a steaming pile!!
I think InTouch will keep digging. I think there is much more to come.
Those poor kids. The shock of the awfulness of this all does not seem to be wearing off for me. 🙁
They talk about being pure & chaste and yet they’re one of the most hyper sexualized cults out there. Sex is such a focus all the time because they attempt to supress everything that’s normal leading up to the act. Teenagers can’t be teenagers, everything is monitored & controlled. Of course there will be acting out. Even the way Jim Bob jokes about wedding nights with his children is creepy. I wonder if he’s hiding something himself. Perhaps the son learned from his father.
Been thinking along these lines myself – something doesn’t add up here. *Shudder*
I’m just waiting to hear Fox News has given them their own Osmond-style family hour program. Because the lib’rals are just sending us all straight into the clutches of Satan, by golly. And they must save us, one lie at a time.
As for that In Touch cover, that really is the most life I’ve ever seen in Michelle’s eyes. And to think, all it took was endangering her Ogilvie home perm fund!
I think she looks manic on that cover, and hope it doesn’t give me nightmares, lol!
I don’t like the Duggers, but I find this a little too odd. A call placed in the midst of all of this coming out. I don’t lend it too much credence, truthfully.
I see where you are coming from – I wonder if it was some random that called the hotline.. but their refusal to cooperate is what gets me. That’s not ok.
Unless it was from someone inside the family, hoping that with the exposure, they could finally find someone to help them? One of the kids (or grandma) could have found a few seconds of privacy to place a phone call, knowing that since this has all been made public now they have a chance of getting help for the younger kids in the home.
The abuse was so well known within the Duggar’s church community, for all these years, that I’m sure there are many people who’ve been watching them closely and might be driven to report if they thought there was something new.
Just to speculate here, it could possibly be someone from their own Quiverfull community. I imagine a lot of Quiverfulls are probably resentful and jealous of the Duggars money and success, considering most Quiverfulls live in poverty (and how could they not live in poverty with minimal access to education and dozens of children to feed).
Littlestar
Great point!
Yea, there’s always jealousy. Always. I wouldn’t be beyond shocked if someone in their own community did that. The Duggars live a lavish lifestyle for their community. You just know there’s someone who can’t stand them for it.
Whether or not the allegations had credibility, one would hope that since they had four daughters that were molested (and one babysitter), that they would want to know about any new situation and thus let the DHS agent come in and give them information and allow the TRAINED agent to talk to their child.
One of the Duggars’ excuses is that they didn’t know what was happening. So you’d think that especially now, they’d want to know everything a.s.a.p. Also, because of how they wrongly dealt with the situation before, you’d think they’d want the expertise and assistance of the DHS agent and learn how to take care of the situation properly.
This could have been used as a learning experience by the Duggars, but they seem to fall back into their pattern of keeping everything in-house or in-community, which didn’t work all that well for them, did it.
I know the phone call was pretty tame, but I felt sick to my stomach listening to to anyway. I think there may be a lot more sexual abuse going on at the Duggars than we have heard so far.
I am not pro-Duggar at all, but I wonder just how many crazy fans and haters call DFS on them just for the hell of it and make claims. i can’t even imagine. I know people do it with reality stars A LOT. So, hopefully this was a legit concern and not just some nutty fans trying to “get them in trouble.”
From the article:
“Experts tell In Touch that an investigation can be triggered by a hotline complaint, even an anonymous one, if the trained operator determines the allegation is serious enough that it meets standards for child abuse maltreatment laws.”
I’m taking this to mean that they don’t go out based on just any call. It has to be one that a “trained operator” believes that the allegations have some kind of basis, enough for them to send out an agent.
Conversely, if a DHS agent goes out, then it should be the Duggars’ parental responsibility to allow them in and let them see what’s going on, because apparently, one of the Duggars’ excuses is that they didn’t know what was happening and wouldn’t know and thus they had to have locked bedrooms and rules on if and when the boys can play with the girls.
One would think that if there was a chance that something bad was happening to one of the younger kids, the Duggars would want more information and thus allow the DHS agent in and research it thoroughly.
Man oh man, anyone who works for In Touch will want to be sure to have a body guard if they’re ever in Arkansas! I bet Jim Bob is having a FIT that they won’t let it go.
The parents need to spend about 2 years in jail. Perhaps it will self-correct their insane, cult beliefs. Worse than the Trash Family; cause at least they are ‘honest’ about all their grifting.
Some of the younger children belong to Jana and Josh probably, wait and see…. smh…
First- ” In Touch’s bombshell reporting”- I always thought this would be the phrase to usher in the end of days, and maybe it has, but if these are the ends of days, its remarkably calm… faulking matrix.
SECOND-Are we really surprised that TLC is silent on this? I have always been suspicious of TLC (ok, ok not in the trading spaces/what not to wear days), but let’s face it, TLC is run/operated/programmed by Brits who apparently have some long standing bet with Ryan Seacrest to see who can dredge up the the absolute most heinous, functionally stunted, illiterate, pathetic, vapid, worst of Am’rka they can find and put these train wreck monsters on television AND then not only laugh at. mock, humiliate, abuse those they have televised, but also the american public who watches that shit, and the marketing world who believes Americans want to watch that shit. the TLC programming team has ethics and scruples on par with Mr. Murdock and the rest of the British entertainment machine. The only thin Murdock has up an over them, is he’s cause death from his trash. How long before TLC follows suit, and which TLC monstrosity will it be- dance Mom Lady, the Little people? Who will TLC off? TLC is no better than the vaudevillian freak shows. Maybe they can resurrect john Merrick
wow, I had no idea I felt so strongly about TLC…
When I was in Indonesia last year with my husband, we had a lot of downtime during the days – hiding from the sun and heat inside. So we watched a lot of TLC Australia. I was SO surprised at how different Australian TLC was from the American one. TLC Australia was mostly cooking shows!!! Tons and tons of cooking shows! Versus American TLC, which exploitation of trashy and questionable people. They obviously have very different demographics.
We ot a preview of that channel for a weekend! My husb and I were shocked! The programming was somewhat educational and very little commericial interruption.
The whole time… “what are we watching? Have you seen a commercial yet? When did TV become interesting?”
On behalf of my fellow Brits…..hey!!!!
And Murdock is Australian if you want to blame a nation for Fox News.
But, but, but did the police come?! Did they get to speak with the child they were concerned about?
It doesn’t surprise me at all that those two monsters didn’t cooperate – guess they needed time to further brainwash the children into providing the ‘right’ answers.
The fact that tlc still haven’t cancelled the show is beyond comprehension. I understand it’s all about money for them and that they have a lot of morally questionable programmes, but still. People at tlc should be losing jobs for this. And there should be no statute of limitation on child molestation. Never.
They should have been investigated for this, something in the comments section I found of Fox. I had read about this also in an article talking about Michelle’s belief system.
“”Blanket training”:
It’s one of those Bill Gothard (/Michael and Debi Pearl) child abuse cloaked as “discipline” techniques. Michelle Duggar has admitted to doing it on the FAQ page of her “duggar family blog”.
What it is is putting a baby on a blanket then smacking them when they go off the blanket out of natural curiosity. The idea is to do it over and over until the baby complies with staying on the blanket so then they can be left on a blanket unattended without getting into stuff. It’s so terrible I can’t believe anyone would ever admit to it and why CPS isn’t called on anyone who does it. This is supposed to be started with young babies when they first learn to crawl (despite Michelle Duggar calling it “toddlers” on her blog, a baby kept from “crawling” off a blanket would be an infant, not a toddler). It is a “training” technique, much like using pain and fear to control a dog, done to happy babies who are doing nothing wrong.”
OMG.
I’m speechless.
That explains why no one speaks up — they’ve been taught very early to stay within the box. Literally.
OMG.
That is child abuse and it proves that they start brainwashing their children from day 1. Those poor kids. (Not Josh because he was old enough to still know better. I grew up in an emotionally and physically abusive home and by his age, I definitely knew that it wasn’t right to attack other people when I was mad.)
Those poor kids. 🙁
The story about how the DHS agent had to call the cops in order to see the child(ren) reminded me of the Josh Powell case, in which the agent called 911, the call recorded, how the operator kept arguing with the agent, and all the while, Josh bashed his sons in their heads, and set the house on fire.
I’m not saying that’s what the Duggars would do, but it’s odd how with all the molestation that went on in their family to several young people, that the Duggars would push back hard enough against a trained investigator that the cops had to be called.
You’d think that the Duggars would encourage their children to speak to a trained expert to find out what more may have happened to their children, but their old habits of secrecy and in-house ‘fixing,’ which didn’t work so well for them at all.
I’m not defending the Duggars at all, but to lump this situation in with what happened to the Powell boys isn’t right. They were murdered in an absolutely gruesome manner.
If Megan Phelps can escape Westboro Baptist, Jana Dugger can escape this mess. Run, Jana, run!
These people!!!!