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ELI5: the duggars scandal

What's going on that is getting them canceled?
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One of the family, Josh Duggar, was found to be molesting his younger sisters while they slept; it began when he was 15 and continued for several years, while the victims were as young as 4. Jim Bob, the family's father and leader, knew about it, but declined to do anything at first. A year later, he found out that Josh was still doing it, not only to family members but to unspecified other girls in the neighbourhood; he took Josh to church, where he and church leaders decided to punish him with 3 months of working construction on a friend's home. He then had his friend, a state trooper, give him a talking to about what would happen if he continued.

As a state trooper, this friend was what's called a mandated reporter: he had a legal responsibility to notify the police about child abuse he knew of. But he didn't do this; he was later caught himself for possessing child pornography, was convicted, paroled, and then re-convicted again for possessing even more.

4 years after Jim Bob first found out what his son had done, the family were due to appear on Oprah, but an anonymous source called the police and Oprah herself to say that Josh Duggar had raped or abused her. Police looked into it, but Josh only confessed to the incidents in 2002; under Arkansas law, you have 3 years to prosecute child rape or abuse after a law enforcement figure is alerted. Because Jim Bob's friend in the state troopers had been told years earlier, this time limit had expired, and nothing could be done.

Pieces of testimony and allegations have circulated since 2006, but no one had evidence until this week, when the police report and other details came out and Josh publicly confessed. The incidents took place when he was 14 to 18 and involved him fingering and licking girls aged 4 to 11 while they slept. 

TLC don't want to run a show starring Josh, nor his father who has come under criticism for not reporting events, exploiting statute of limitations laws, and for keeping a known child molester in his home with a dozen other children, where they continued to be abused for years. Additional condemnation has come from the fact that Josh Duggar is a representative of the Family Research Council, who has gone on the record stating that gay people should not have the right to adopt because they are sexual perverts who will likely molest children.