Four homeschooled brothers pleaded guilty Thursday to molesting their younger sister from the time she was 4 years old until she was almost 15 – and their parents and two other brothers still face charges related to the case.
The oldest brother confessed in December 2012 to molesting the girl after becoming a born-again Christian, and a pastor from the Baptist church in Wake Forest, North Carolina, contacted authorities the following day.
“He confided in his pastor and his pastor told him that was wrong and not the way normal families are,” said Perquimans County Sheriff Eric Tilley.
Eric Jackson, then 25, told authorities that he and all five of his brothers had sexually abused their younger sister for a decade, and authorities say their parents knew but did nothing to stop the abuse.
An elder at Hope Baptist Church, which Jackson and another brother attended, compared the pattern of abuse to other “horrible” sins such as adultery and homosexuality.
“If Jesus had not saved Eric, perhaps the devastating culture of this family could have continued, even to more generations,” wrote elder Scott Brown. “But the gospel transforms and shines light in dark places. Jesus was the source of light that caused things to be brought into the light.”
So Jesus could bring things to light after the fact but could do nothing to prevent this child's abuse?
Not a terribly impressive deity is he?
Still I am going to give this pastor some credit for not helping to hide the secret as the Duggar family's religious advisers seem to have done.
However in this case just like the last, it is the parents who most deserve our disgust.
They knew about this and did nothing to protect their children, both the molesters who will now serve time in jail for their offenses, and the molested who will serve a life sentence in a prison from which there is not parole.
Gee two different Christian homeschooled families, kept apart from their contemporaries, and now revealed to have serious episodes of incest and sexual abuse.
Anybody else noticing a pattern?
http://www.motherjones.com/contributor/2015/05/holy-shit-how-duggars-homeschooling-curriculum-allegedly-dealt-sexual-abuse
ReplyDeleteWhere's Jesus when you need him?
ReplyDeleteI simply don't have words to describe how I feel about this story. Even swearing would not be helpful :( That poor little girl. I even have some empathy, not much, for the brothers as I believe that they truly did not understand this to be wrong since their parents obviously endorsed it. The parents should be in jail; the brothers should have counseling as well as the daughter/sister. What a horribly dysfunctional family! This would not have happened if the family was not so insular.
ReplyDeleteI would like to know why Track Menard Palin has disappeared? Is he the next one to be exposed?
ReplyDeleteThat's a very good question, one I too would like answered.
DeleteChristians say they are being prosecuted and oppressed. Up until now they have not been, but I think that it is time that they are. They hide behind "Jesus will forgive me" and think that makes everything alright. I'm soooo disgusted with that cult of assholes. ~Rea
ReplyDeleteThey should be prosecuted. Numbers are dropping considerably in the US as to folks calling themselves 'christians'! As it should be!
DeleteI've not met one Christian in my life that I respect!
3:29
DeleteThat's one hell of a statement. Good and bad come in all walks of life. While I am not a Christian, I know many wonderful people of all religions. I am proud to know them. You're as rigid in your thinking as any religious zealot.
Well, I guess Phillip Berrigan is still alive. Daniel Berrigan, Thomas Merton and Pete Seeger are dead. So no, I can't think of a single Christian I respect.
Delete"You're as rigid in your thinking as any religious zealot." Except my thinking is not based on any religion. It is based on knowing the difference between right and wrong. I suppose that could seem rigid to cult members who want to make excuses for their members when they are the ones doing the wrong.~Rea
DeleteBack up there a not Liz. I'm a huge Seeger fan. But would never have identified h as first and foremost a Christian.
DeleteJust checked Liz. Seeger was unitarian universalist formally. At some time an atheist. But claimed to feeloat spiritual when in the woods. Please don'talign the dead by ascribing to them that which they did not espouse or embrace.it's what the christianists try to do to the founding Fathers.
DeleteDr Barry Lynn, Reverend in the United Church of Christ & head of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.
DeleteAs a pagan I support this man and his battle against the Dominionists who insist he is not a 'Real Christian'.
4:14 Huh? You obviously are not aware that the christianhood number in the US are dropping and will continue doing so. Pay attention to the numbers as the years move along.
DeleteMany in our country are not like you, so get use to it and stop calling folks names that don't agree with you!
Their poor little sister! Cannot imagine what she went through and fear for how she is handling her world today. No help from her parents? That is the worst part!
ReplyDeleteThe entire family is a friggin' mess! Mine was too, but not to that degree! My heart and best thoughts go out to the girl. I so hope she is getting the care she needs.
Christians and home schooling - both such negatives!
It wasn't one sister. It was 4 of them and one of their friends.
DeleteAnon 3.18, different families. This is a different family than the dugger dipshits.
DeleteHome scholing did not work in this case. I read that the older brother could hardly write his name!!
DeleteHomeschooling and religious homeschooling are two very different things. You sound very stupid if you conflate the two.
Delete3:18 This particular article reflects these brothers abusing their 'one' sister as I already said. Please reread...think you are mixing this story up with the other religious family that is on TV - Duggars? Think that is their last name! He abused more than one sister in his family and they are taking their family show off TV which well they should!
DeleteBill Gothard "Counseling Sexual Abuse":
ReplyDelete#8. If you had to choose...no physical abuse or mighty in Spirit--which would you choose?
Evangelical education/counseling disgustingly teaches that abuse may even be desirable. Samantha Field wrote an excellent post on the guide and how evangelical culture 'allows abuse to flourish'.
https://defeatingthedragons.wordpress.com/2015/05/22/how-josh-duggar-is-getting-away-with-it/
omg. his name is Got hard? egads.
DeleteHurry for a photo op with the Duggars, Sarah. BWAHAHAHAHAHA all media whores.
ReplyDeleteAn associate Minister in my hometown in Michigan just resigned because this anti gay minister was caught trying to pick up guys on a gay web site, complete with photos oh himself shirtless and his boxer shorts half off. I sent the story to my gay brother and his words were "I"m only shocked that people are shocked".
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to point out that I read the source article and it didn't say the family homeschooled their children because of Christianity--it sounded like the father was a whack job all around. This entire story became known when the oldest brother joined a Christian church, so whether Jesus is real or not, Jesus was the reason we learned about it.
ReplyDeleteWonkette has a post about TLC cancelling the Duggars show. But the interesting thing is how the post ends!!!
ReplyDelete"So, again, did they know? Because we’d hate to think they did, and just decided to hope against hope that nobody ever found out (capital letters are Wonkette's).
"And if so, when did they know about Mama June’s child-rapey boyfriend? AND WHAT ARE THEY HIDING ABOUT THE PALINS?"
http://wonkette.com/586363/tlc-pulls-gross-duggars-off-the-air-because-honey-boo-boos-mom-wanted-equal-molesting-time
Deletehttp://wonkette.com/586359/huckabee-that-duggar-boy-made-a-mistake-just-like-when-my-son-murdered-that-dog
Many already suspect incest within the Heath family - specifically ole Chuckie boy! We know that Chuckie Jr. likes young ones because he got involved with one when a teacher - left his wife and married the young one who was pregnant.
DeleteSo much about the Heath/Palin clan to talk about....wonder why the press doesn't investigate them more and publish their dirt?
Two families aren't statistically significant nor is it a pattern. Certainly, there are good Christian people who do a great job home schooling their children and raising them as there are sexually deviant non-Christian families who home school and sexually deviant non-Christian families who don't home school. You have unfairly portrayed all Christian home schooling parents as having sexual deviancy in their families.
ReplyDeleteTo me, all "Christian home schooling" is by definition deluded.
DeleteThe examples I've seen I'd characterize as child abuse.
I would not be surprised if their is a higher incidence of sexual abuse in Christian home schooled families than in all families.
But admittedly, I have now lost patience with all Christians as there are virtually no Christians denouncing the hateful and hate-filled actions of the Christian right. I don't care if they practice their religion but stop trying to deny my rights because of their delusions.
I personally don't trust ANY religiously brainwashed people any further than I could throw them. The "god brain" just messes people up, any of 'em and all of 'em.
DeleteMy sister and I attended Catholic grade school through grade 8 and then we attended the local public high school, because our parents rightly believed that it was important to learn how to live and work with people from all different backgrounds.
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Duh, all religions repress sexuality and create just the kind of predators that you highlighted in your post.
ReplyDeleteFree your children from the chains of both fairy tales and religious doctrine. They will thank you for it.
WTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteRaw Story states that the eldest of the six brothers, the one who made the first confession, is so poorly educated that he had trouble writing his name.
ReplyDeleteWTH! What kind of sick perverted sons did those parents raise. There has to be something really sinister in that family for all of those sons to turn out they way they did, as incestuous perverts.
ReplyDeleteSorry, just read earlier post about the name writing. Please don't post mine.
ReplyDeleteThis should not be ok, but in Arkansas, it's all very incestuous, eh?
ReplyDeleteDuggar Police Records Destroyed Just Yesterday
http://www.alan.com/2015/05/22/duggar-police-records-destroyed-just-yesterday/
Holy Shit. This Is How the Duggars' Homeschooling Curriculum Allegedly Dealt With Sexual Abuse.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.motherjones.com/contributor/2015/05/holy-shit-how-duggars-homeschooling-curriculum-allegedly-dealt-sexual-abuse
Apparently they simply tore up the report about a girl who is still a minor in Arkansas.
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‘Boys are curious': Meet the Duggar defenders using religion to excuse fondling your sleeping sisters
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/boys-are-curious-meet-the-duggar-defenders-using-religion-to-excuse-fondling-your-sleeping-sisters/
I found the "E News" reporting of the story to be very troubling. Lots of sad faces, not outrage, as they told the story. Poor Duggars, they might lose their television show - that seemed to be the message. And Josh was said to work for the Family Research Council, a "non-profit" in Washington. In fact, it is a lobbying body for faux-Christian fundamentalists and anti-gay propaganda.
DeleteBeaglemom
PS. But then I would not pander to the Kardashians either.
’19 Kids and Counting’ isn’t the only TLC show that had a brush with child molesters
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/19-kids-and-counting-isnt-the-only-tlc-show-that-had-a-brush-with-child-molesters/
Conservatives Falling All Over Themselves To Defend Kid-Toucher Josh Duggar Because He’s Better Than LIBERALS, D*mmit (SCREENSHOTS)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/05/22/conservatives-falling-all-over-themselves-to-defend-kid-toucher-josh-duggar-because-hes-better-than-liberals-dmmit-screenshots/
Authorities say that the school’s administrator, Joan Dayton, knowingly employed a man convicted of two counts of sexual offenses against an 8-year-old child. Paul Leroy Connor was convicted of “taking sexual liberties with” and committing a sexual offense against the child in 2001. He served two years in prison and is barred under state law from being on school property.
ReplyDeleteThe investigation revealed that Dayton knew of the conviction, and willfully hired Connor, in spite of it.
A former teacher discovered Connor’s status as a registered sex offender, while preparing to teach a lesson to students on safety. When performing a routine sex offender search, Connor’s picture came up. She went to Dayton, along with other school officials.
In an email sent in February, Dayton confirmed to the teacher that she was aware of Connor’s conviction, saying, “Yes, it’s a long story they obviously don’t want out.”
After being informed that it was against state law to allow Connor on school property, Dayton reportedly said:
“I don’t care. It doesn’t matter. He is a reformed man. I know him personally.”
She is also quoted in documents, reviewed by the Fayetteville Observer, as saying:
“This is my school. I’m in charge here and I can do whatever I want.”
Dayton later instructed the teacher to stop teaching students how to look up sex offenders online, saying:
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/05/22/freedom-christian-school-faked-grades-knowingly-hired-child-molester-video/
wow.
Deleteall in the name of their lord!
“This is my school. I’m in charge here and I can do whatever I want.”
DeleteUntil a judge sends you to jail. I hope.
This story is so sick. I absolutely feel like throwing up.
ReplyDeleteThe Duggars are disgusting..they don't deserve any publicity.
ReplyDeleteChild abuse happening while the matron was busy making babies. Sick, sick,sick! I wish they would disappear with the Pallins.
Where was Jesus for the entire time this little girl was being abused?
ReplyDeleteOr does Jesus only care about male children? Which seems to be the case in these fundie Xian families.
Belief in nonsense is a first sign of a sick mind.
ReplyDeleteAnd the Duggars fail from TV grace, but something tells me right wingers will still hail them as heroes, since they won't be prosecuted...
ReplyDeleteOne of the problems with homeschooling is that children, especially girls, do not learn that certain kinds of touching are wrong. In some families, I fear, they are instructed by their parents (in the guise of teachers) that men or older boys are always to be submitted to. The Duggar guy keeps insisted that he never kissed his wife before he married her. That fact does not nullify the fact that he "messed around" with his younger sisters and at least one girl not from their family. People who do not learn how to live in society get some very peculiar ideas.
ReplyDeleteBeaglemom
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/05/23/matt-barber-subterfuge-deception-prove-subterfuge-deception.html
ReplyDelete“If Jesus had not saved Eric, perhaps the devastating culture of this family could have continued, even to more generations,” wrote elder Scott Brown. “But the gospel transforms and shines light in dark places. Jesus was the source of light that caused things to be brought into the light.”
ReplyDeleteActually, it was a man who shone a light on this darkness. If Jesus were going to do anything about it, I suspect he would have struck them dead in their tracks decades ago.