As it turns out Josh Duggar is not the first child molester that Mike Huckabee "palled around with." There was also the guy that co-authored his books.

Courtesy of Buzzfeed: 

John Perry, a prolific author who co-wrote two books with former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and co-wrote one with Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore, was accused of child molestation in two separate lawsuits, BuzzFeed News has found. 

A 2012 police investigation of Perry’s alleged offenses found that “the allegations of sexual battery were sustained” but that the statute of limitations had expired. 

Perry co-wrote Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That’s Bringing Common Sense Back to America about Huckabee’s 2008 presidential campaign. He also did research and writing for Huckabee’s 2007 book Character Is the Issue, a memoir of his early time as governor. Perry also co-wrote So Help Me God, Moore’s autobiographical account of fighting to keep a monument to the Ten Commandments at Alabama’s Supreme Court. 

Those books are just a few of the titles produced with Perry’s help: He wrote For Faith & Family: Changing America by Strengthening the Family with Richard Land, the president of Southern Evangelical Seminary, a book with former Southern Baptist Convention president James T. Draper, as well as a book with Frank Page, the president and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee. Perry even co-authored The Vow, the book made into a feature film starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum. Perry also lists writing two books for prominent pastor John F. MacArthur on his website.

This from the 2012 police investigation:  

“The alleged sexual battery was reported to have occurred when the victim was between the ages of 11 and 14,” said Nashville police department spokesperson Don Aaron in a statement to BuzzFeed News. 

 “As a result of the investigation, the allegations of sexual battery were sustained, but it was determined that the statute of limitations had tolled, barring prosecution. The victim was age 18 when she first disclosed the allegations to non-law enforcement and said at that time she did not want the matter reported to the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services or the police.”

Well it appears that Mike Huckabee has a real affinity for child molesters.

In Touch magazine identifies 11 things the Duggar family is still hiding.

I will provide a brief synopsis of each issue. To read more just go to In Touch Magazine:

1) The “licensed” counseling details. Jim Bob and Michelle and two of their daughters have stated the girls went through “licensed” counseling, but have not addressed why Jim Bob and Michelle apparently waited FOUR years before getting them into counseling after they had been victims of Josh. They have also refused to discuss that the counseling seems to have occurred only after the Department of Human Services launched an investigation into the family, following the police probe, which ended due to the statute of limitations having expired. Jim Bob and Michelle apparently did NOT get their daughters counseling from at least March 2002 when, according to the police reports, Josh confessed he had committed “4 to 5” separate acts of molestation, through December 2006 when Springdale police turned the case over to DHS. During that time period Josh committed at least SEVEN acts of molestation, according to police reports.

Any mental health expert will tell you that getting counseling as early as possible after a traumatic incident is incredibly important, and if Josh had received adequate counseling from the get go it would have spared his sisters from abuse.

Simply put these parents failed to do the most fundamental thing expected of parents. To protect their children from harm.

2) Downplaying the molestations as “subtle and mild.” Echoing Jim Bob and Michelle’s characterization of Josh’s actions as “mild touching,” Jessa said: “None of the victims were aware of what happened until Joshua confessed. The extent of it was mild – inappropriate touching on fully clothed victims, most of it while [the] girls were sleeping.” She also added, “In the situations where it happened and the girls were awake they weren’t aware of what was happening. It was very subtle.” But two police reports strongly contradict these assertions. 

In Touch goes on to point out that Josh's predatory behaviors increased and that he became more bold in response to ineffective attempts by his parents to curb his behavior.


The Duggars seemed to have allowed themselves to be convinced by Josh's contrition act when all he was doing was lulling them into a false sense of security while he ratcheted up the abuse.

I have seen this myself numerous times in sexual predators.

They can come across almost sickening sweet to authority figures, while carefully grooming the victims into allowing them more and more access to their bodies, and in the end even convincing their prey that it was all their fault. 

3) The escalation of Josh’s molestations is troubling to mental health experts and not to be dismissed in the manner Jessa characterized it as, “a young boy in puberty and a little too curious about girls.” Dr. Paula Bruce, a California clinical psychologist, told In Touch about the Duggars: “None of them acknowledged that this is predatory behavior. 

Like I said.

4) Safeguards. Jim Bob and Michelle have said (and their two daughters echoed) that after they became aware of Josh’s abuse they put “safeguards” in their home. But the Springdale police report reveals that Jim Bob and Michelle first became aware of 4 to 5 separate acts of sexual abuse by Josh in March 2002 and there were more acts of sexual molestation by Josh in July 2002 and March 2003. The parents have not addressed the fact that their “safeguards” repeatedly failed and allowed at least SEVEN instances of sexual molestation during the course of a year. 

Those are not safeguards, those were simply placebos to help the parents sleep better at night.  

5) Jim Bob, Michelle, Jessa and Jill all made a point to say that Josh “paid for his own counseling.” But Jim Bob and Michelle did not admit – and were not questioned – about why Josh apparently did not get counseling from a mental health professional for at least FIVE years after his first four acts of molestation, and only after the Department of Human Services opened an investigation into his activities. 

I think it is pretty clear that the Duggars did not want any word about Josh's "problem" getting out into the public, since dear old dad was still focusing on a potential political career. So the only real therapy they would have received was the therapy that they were pressured by the state to receive.

6) The family has continued to give the impression of cooperation with authorities, but fail to offer a detailed explanation of why they did not produce Josh for a police-requested interview in 2008. Josh, 18-years-old at the time of the Springdale police interview, hired a lawyer and refused to be questioned. 

Now that certainly does not sound like cooperation does it?

7) The family strongly implied that details from the DHS investigation were leaked. Jessa said of talking to DHS: “We did you know, we told them, we were honest. We said here’s what happened and we told them the complete story and my parents said, ‘This isn’t something people are going to blab around, you can tell them, you can trust them. Tell them your story. It’s a safe place to talk.’ Unfortunately not.” The reality is that no details from the DHS investigation or what the victims told DHS investigators have leaked or been reported. Cooperation with DHS is mandatory. 

This is yet another attempt to play the victim. And WHY do the Duggars all seem to have the same story about leaked documents, and betrayal by public officials?

8) Public records spin. Public records obtained by In Touch of a plane used by the Duggars show that it flew to the location of their crisis public relations specialist prior to giving these interviews in an attempt to save their TLC show. A source confirms to In Touch that the Duggars met with their own PR team to create a strategy for the interviews. 

Ahh, well that explains it. They were all coached by a PR team so that they would all be on the same page, and nobody would contradict the parent's version of events.  

9) The family has continued to float the possibility that they will take some legal action against the city for releasing the records. But a deeper analysis of the situation reveals top experts say they have no basis for such action.

But damn, do I WISH they would try to sue.


10) The Duggars have continued to mischaracterize the FOIA-released police reports as juvenile records and say there were “illegally released.” Jessa told Fox: “Freedom of Information Act is not, you can’t FOIA juvenile cases, everybody knows that.” Her characterization of what was released via FOIA is wrong. 

11) The order to destroy the police record. The order to destroy the police report was entered by Judge Stacy Zimmerman. Neither Fox nor the Duggars have acknowledged that the judge heard only an emergency argument from one side (via a lawyer hired by the Duggars) and no media outlet or other entity challenged the ruling, which many legal experts believe was overly broad and a wrong interpretation of the law. Even Springdale’s police spokesman noted the highly unusual nature of the judge’s decision.

So the question on this last one is what compelled the judge to have these records destroyed? 

After all it seems the only people who would want these kept from public scrutiny would be the Duggar family itself, so who would pressure this judge on their behalf?

And does his name rhyme with Fuckabee?

In Touch magazine reports on the lies the Duggars told during their interview with Megyn Kelly.

You can read the entire article here, but let me offer a few of the highlights.

On cooperating with the authorities:

One of the most glaring omissions by the family concerns their statements about the 2006 Springdale Police Department investigation. The Duggars gave the viewing audience the impression that they fully cooperated, saying, “We trusted them, we trusted the police department.” But the Springdale police report, obtained by In Touch through FOIA, reveals that Jim Bob refused to produce Josh for a police-requested interview and stopped cooperating with the probe.

On not being "mandatory reporters": 

Not so. While they are not mandatory reporters, the law does not allow them to do what they think is best for their child in this situation, multiple legal experts tell In Touch. 

By not reporting the at-least SEVEN instances of abuse on at least THREE occasions during a period of more than a year, they could have faced felony charges for child endangerment, with a six-year prison term.

On the idea that the Springdale police were bribed into releasing the police report: 

The records were obtained through Arkansas' Freedom of Information Act, which is one of the most liberal open records laws in the country, according to the state’s attorney general.

On the never mentioned HHS investigation:  

The Duggars did not address the fact that they were investigated by the Department of Human Services after the 2006 police probe was terminated due to the statute of limitations. They have not said what the results of the DHS investigation were.

On Jim Bob's assertion that he took his son to the police station and only randomly ended up talking with a police officer that he knew slightly:  

Jim Bob made it clear that he took Josh to talk to the police and randomly happened to end up with Trooper Jim Hutchens. (Hutchens is now serving a 56-year-prison term on child pornography charges, as reported exclusively by In Touch magazine.) 

“We didn’t know anything about this guy except he was an officer there for the headquarters,” Jim Bob said in Wednesday’s interview. 

But Hutchens was interviewed from prison by a representative from a local law firm hired by In Touch and contradicts Jim Bob’s story. He said he knew Jim Bob well from his job and had even taught a couple of classes to car dealerships with him.

Hutchens also claimed that Jim Bob called him directly to talk to Josh, and that there was nothing random about it.

I don't think any of us are surprised that the Duggars lied during their interview, but it interesting that they lied about things that are so easily demonstrated to be false.

However their defensiveness over their son's actions, and their pathetic response, are one thing, the fact that Jessa, one of his victims, said this is another: 

"I do want to speak up in his defense against people who are calling him a child molester or a pedophile or a rapist, some people are saying,” Jessa told Kelly. “I’m like, ‘That is so overboard and a lie really.’ I mean people get mad at me for saying that, but I can say this because I was one of the victims.” 

"I can say this (That Josh is not a child molester) because I was one of the victims."

Just allow that to roll around in your mind a little bit.

THAT is what the Duggars did to their family.

They made the victims feel guilty for being victims. Victims who now feel it is their duty to defend a person who took advantage of them while they slept, and who undoubtedly did it far more times than have been reported so far. 

The Fox News interview with Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar is troubling on so many levels.

The above clip is quite difficult to watch mostly because it demonstrates just how badly the Duggars failed their daughters and their son, Josh.

The first thing I noticed is that Michelle cannot seem to get an answer out without looking at her husband's face to see if he approves of it. When he doesn't he simply interrupts her and takes over.

During this first interview we learn for the first time that not all of the touching happened over the clothes as previously reported, nor happened when all of the victims were asleep as was the initial story. (All told the victims included four daughters and a baby sitter, some of them wide awake while being molested.)

So now we have a predator who is becoming increasingly bold in his molestation attempts and is undoubtedly engaging in grooming behaviors that his parents are too undereducated to notice. And keep in mind that the parents are ONLY aware of the incidents that Josh confesses to, and have no real idea if that is the extent of the abuse.

At one point Megyn Kelly alludes to the fact that the "final" victim was a child that was very young, a single digit age, and that it was only then that the parents had Josh removed from the home. Which is, in my opinion, inexcusable.

In this second portion of the interview, the Duggars claimed that they got professional counseling not just for Josh but for his victims as well, and alerted the authorities well after the fact.

The interview goes on to discuss the decision to participate in the reality show, and Jim Bob seemed to feel that they were protected by a sealed juvenile record which would keep the incident from sabotaging their new career path. The revelation about that juvenile record seems to be one the thing that Jim Bob finds to be the most unforgivable.

At one point Michelle Duggar says that her daughters "have been victimized more by what has happened in the last couple of weeks than they were 12 years ago because, honestly, they didn't even understand and know that anything had happened until after the fact when they were told about it."

That statement reveals just how ignorant these people are concerning the long term effects of sexual abuse.

There is a lot to talk about concerning this interview.

First I would like to say that Megyn Kelly did a better job than I thought she would, and that her approach got the Duggars to say very incriminating things which might not have cropped up during a more aggressive interview.

Second I have little confidence that the Duggars actually got their children the counseling that they needed. If they received any counseling at all it was undoubtedly Christian counseling which is often unlicensed and focused mostly on spiritual reparation, more than psychological problems.

Thirdly the Duggars kept trying to minimize Josh's actions as being "curious about girls." But in fact he was a sexual predator who molested his sisters multiple times, including one that was younger than ten years old.

And lastly it is beyond clear to me that Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar failed to protect their daughters from a sexual predator, and to protect their son from his own impulses.

There is a reason that child protective services exist, and it is to step in and handle things with which parents are ill equipped to deal.

Ultimately the Duggars seemed more concerned with protecting their reputation (Don't forget that Jim Bob was either holding or actively seeking political office around this time period.) than they were protecting and caring for their family.

Here is more from Salon on this interview.

Leave it to Mike Huckabee to creep everybody out with a tasteless joke at the expense of transgendered people.

[These] ordinances [say] if your 7-year-old daughter—if she goes into the restroom—cannot be offended and you can’t be offended if she’s greeted there by a 42-year-old man who feels more like a woman than he does a man. Now I wish that someone told me that when I was in high school that I could have felt like a woman when it came time to take showers in PE. I’m pretty sure that I would have found my feminine side and said, “Coach, I think I’d rather shower with the girls today.”

Slate has more:  

Huckabee has long enjoyed bashing gay people and marriage equality, but this disgusting joke suggests the former Arkansas governor has lately discovered the joys of ridiculing trans people—who already face a stunning amount of discrimination and harassment. For what it’s worth, no state that has passed trans protections has seen Huckabee’s bathroom fever dream come to pass. But, of course, Huckabee isn’t really concerned about facts: He’s concerned about finding the kind of red meat Republican voters still care about. It seems that, by his calculation, maligning one of the most reviled and marginalized groups in society will still push GOP voters to the polls. 

You only have to listen to the reaction of the crowd to realize that Huckabee is not alone in his feeling that transgender people are disgusting sexual predators looking for an opportunity to prey on small children.

Of course the sexual predators are almost never a transgendered person. Instead they are far more likely to look more like this:

And how did Huckabee respond to an actual child molester (Link has much more graphic report.) once he was outed?

Like this of course:

Janet and I want to affirm our support for the Duggar family. Josh’s actions when he was an underage teen are as he described them himself, 'inexcusable,' but that doesn’t mean 'unforgivable.' He and his family dealt with it and were honest and open about it with the victims and the authorities. No purpose whatsoever is served by those who are now trying to discredit Josh or his family by sensationalizing the story. Good people make mistakes and do regrettable and even disgusting things. The reason that the law protects disclosure of many actions on the part of a minor is that the society has traditionally understood something that today’s blood-thirsty media does not understand—that being a minor means that one's judgement is not mature. No one needs to defend Josh’s actions as a teenager, but the fact that he confessed his sins to those he harmed, sought help, and has gone forward to live a responsible and circumspect life as an adult is testament to his family’s authenticity and humility. Those who have enjoyed revealing this long ago sins in order to discredit the Duggar family have actually revealed their own insensitive bloodthirst, for there was no consideration of the fact that the victims wanted this to be left in the past and ultimately a judge had the information on file destroyed—not to protect Josh, but the innocent victims. Janet and I love Jim Bob and Michelle and their entire family. They are no more perfect a family than any family, but their Christian witness is not marred in our eyes because following Christ is not a declaration of our perfection, but of HIS perfection. It is precisely because we are all sinners that we need His grace and His forgiveness. We have been blessed to receive God’s love and we would do no less than to extend our love and support for our friends. In fact, it is such times as this, when real friends show up and stand up. Today, Janet and I want to show up and stand up for our friends. Let others run from them. We will run to them with our support.

To sum up, Christian child molesters are okay, but a transgendered woman who has to pee is a menace to society.

Megyn Kelly admits that she plans to lob softball questions during interview with the Duggars.

Courtesy of Mediaite:  

Fox News’ Megyn Kelly warned viewers Monday night that her upcoming, exclusive sit-down with Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar might not be as “tough” as the hosts of The View and others have predicted it will be. 

“I’ll take that reputation as a tough but fair journalist,” Kelly said. “However, this isn’t going to be a cross-examination of a family. It’s going to be an interview. I want to hear their story. And I think America wants to hear their story now.” “Nothing is off limits,” Kelly said of the Wednesday night interview. 

But, she added, “I don’t plan on getting into the specific details about what was done, because my understanding is the victims don’t want to discuss that either.”

So pretty much as we all suspected.

After all why would the Duggars go on if they did not know that Fox was going to coddle them, and allow them to spin their story to make it seem that THEY are the victims?

And remember this is a family that even a Christian PR firm refused to take on as a client.

Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar to appear on Fox News next week to discuss their son's sex scandal.

This courtesy of the Duggar Family website: 

Next week we will sit down with Megyn Kelly on Fox News to share our hearts with you about the pain that we walked through as a family twelve years ago, the tears we all shed and the forgiveness that was given. We appreciate the outpouring of love and prayers for our family at this time.

 -Jim Bob & Michelle Duggar

Gee Fox News, what a surprise. 

Made even less surprising by the fact that Fox News has all but ignored the scandal, allotting it less than two minutes of air time.

Perhaps the first question Megyn Kelly will ask is; "What? There's a scandal?"

Creationist suggest that if we believe in Evolution that Josh Duggar did nothing wrong.

Eric Hovind, son of imprisoned tax evader and fellow creationist Kent Hovind, declared on his Creation Today website the following:

If evolution is true, then there is no absolute right and wrong. If evolution is true Josh should not have admitted his faults over a decade ago because what one evolved bag of molecules does to another bag of molecules just doesn’t really matter. If evolution is true there is no ultimate Judge on the bench who will hold every man, woman, and child responsible for their actions. And if evolution is true you will not give an account for every idle word you speak.

So to be clear, as far as Hovind is concerned, if there is no supreme being forcing us to resist the urge to molest our little sisters, then there really is no good reason not to molest our little sisters.

Well that is a fairly disgusting point of view.

Hovind also has a "great punishment" in mind for Josh Duggar: 

A good punishment for Josh Duggar? 

Since Josh molested girls, which could damage their trust of men, which could damage their future marriage, which could damage their future family, we should make Josh Duggar work the rest of his life to help families stay together and help them recognize how twisted the world is and how God offers instruction on how to live righteously! He should be forced to push faith, family and freedom in the public showing the Christian worldview has the answers. We should force him to get a job at the Family Research Counsel who's mission is "to advance faith, family and freedom in public policy and the culture from a Christian worldview." 

That would be a great punishment!

Yes let's pay this former (Well hopefully former.) child molester, who has never received any formal therapy, to tell others how to live a righteous life and to push his version of a Christian worldview on unsuspecting families.

Apparently this makes perfect sense to Hovind.

Here let me clear up a little something.

People who accept the teachings of evolution, embrace secularism, or even self identify as Atheists, have NO problem understanding the concept of right and wrong.

We are more than capable of feeling both guilt and shame for doing bad things, and though we do not believe that there is a powerful sky parent waiting to punish us for our sins, we do recognize and understand why there are rules and laws governing our society and how we interact with each other.

We may in fact be "bags of molecules," but these bags of molecules often live quite moral lives without the fear of eternal damnation being held over our heads.

Which, by the way, makes us the moral superior of anybody who is only acting in a moral fashion in order to avoid punishment, either legal or spiritual. 

Four of the six Christian homeschooled brothers who molested their younger sister for a decade plead guilty.

Courtesy of Raw Story:

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?

It does not look like Jerry Sandusky is going to have a very easy time of it while in prison. Bummer!

Courtesy of The Daily:  

Other prisoners were barred from communicating directly with Sandusky, but they could see him. And when the lights went out, inmates serenaded the disgraced coach with a famous line from Pink Floyd’s “The Wall.” 

“At night, we were singing ‘Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone,’ ” Josh said, adding that everyone knew who Sandusky was because inmates had access to television and newspapers. The jail can hold 349 inmates.

I have to imagine that having a bunch of inmates serenade him is soon going to be the LEAST of Sandusky's problems. Child molesters are often targeted by other inmates and if he is sent into general population I don't think it will turn out well for the 68 year old rapist.

On a somewhat unrelated note guess who has something in common with the Centre County Correctional Facility prisoner? Bristol Palin, that's who!

Apparently according to the Huffington Post, both a note that Sandusky wrote to one of his victims and Bristol's ghostwritten book, share the same 1910 quote from Theodore Roosevelt.

Here is the quote from Sandusky's mash note to victim #4: Teddy Roosevelt -- The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena -- whose face is marked by dust, heat, and blood; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best if he wins knows the thrills of high achievement and if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat. 

It's your song, your choices, your life. Id like to feel a small part of it and will be there, if you want. I have believed and stuck up for you.

And here it is as it showed up on the dedication page of the paperback release of "Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far:"

To all you underdogs 

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Now we all know that Bristol did not actually write her book, and it is even less likely that she chose a 1910 quote from Theodore Roosevelt for her dedication page, but how eery is it that the quote shows up in a letter from a rapist to his victim, as well as in a book that spends a number of its pages accusing an ex-lover of BEING a rapist?

I am not one to read too much into a coincidence, but I have to admit that THIS one made the hairs on the back of my neck stand straight up.

Self proclaimed "America's toughest sheriff" only tough on illegal immigrants, gives child molesters and rapists a free pass.

Courtesy of the Boston Globe:

The 13-year-old girl opened the door of her home in this small city on the edge of Phoenix to encounter a man who said that his car had broken down and he needed to use the phone. Once inside, the man pummeled the teen from behind, knocking her unconscious and sexually assaulting her. 

Seven months before, in an apartment two miles away, another 13-year-old girl was fondled in the middle of the night by her mother's live-in boyfriend. She woke up in her room at least twice a week to find him standing over her, claiming to be looking for her mother's cell phone. 

Both cases were among more than 400 sex-crimes reported to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office during a three-year period ending in 2007 -- including dozens of alleged child molestations -- that were inadequately investigated and in some instances were not worked at all, according to current and former police officers familiar with the cases. 

In El Mirage alone, where Arpaio's office was providing contract police services, officials discovered at least 32 reported child molestations -- with victims as young as 2 years old -- where the sheriff's office failed to follow through, even though suspects were known in all but six cases. 

Many of the victims, said a retired El Mirage police official who reviewed the files, were children of illegal immigrants. 

The botched sex-crimes investigations have served as an embarrassment to a department whose sheriff is the self-described "America's Toughest Sheriff" and a national hero to conservatives on the immigration issue. 

Arpaio's office refused several requests over a period of months to answer questions about the investigations and declined a public records request for an internal affairs report, citing potential disciplinary actions.

This is unconscionable!  The idea that this asshole will harass and aggressively pursue people coming to this country looking for work, and their shot at the American dream, while allowing children to be victimized sexually with no protection whatsoever should forever destroy what is left of this pompous prick's credibility!

I cannot speak for the people of Arizona, but if it were me I would be MUCH more concerned with the safety of our children than I would be concerned about whether my neighbor's landscapers were in the country legally or not.

This should be all the evidence that people need to finally realize that this man is a racist who uses his position to further his xenophobic agenda while caring little for the most vulnerable among the citizens in his county.

Well it is certainly a good thing that none of the current GOP candidates were dumb enough to accept an endorsement from this weasel. What? Oh that's right.

"Sheriff Joe endorsed me! This is going to work out great for me!"