Lawyer Reacts to Josh Duggar Release
I have so many feelings about this that I don't even think that I can communicate all of them. But I'll try to be brief.
Anna's responsibility, as an adult, has the responsibility to protect her children, not her husband. From a religious standpoint, I don't agree with this garbage about putting your husband before everyone else. Your children cannot protect themselves against a predator. As their mother, that is her responsibility. Even if that predator is her husband and their father. There's no evidence that he has physically abused his children. According to this video, the court is going to want a forensic examination of the children, and that will only happen if their mother allows it. Josh doesn't have any say in that, at this point.
Emily (from video) gives a very good account about why Josh was released from jail, but I don't feel good about it. Josh knew about these possible charges for more than a year and half. If he was going to flee, he had a passport, he had siblings that fly planes and have access to them. He has the funds (from Jim Bob). Josh's lawyer's point was that it he was going to flee he would have done it already. He hadn't purportedly done anything else illegal after that point. And of course they reminded the court that he didn't have a record. Now, my argument was that he admitted to molesting his sisters. The counterargument was that this happened more than a dozen years ago, Josh was a juvenile at the time, and even if he had been convicted of that
at the time, the record would have been expunged because he was a minor. I didn't like it, but those are all facts.
The "friends" that are taking in Josh are friends of Jim Bob's. The wife spoke in court and basically said that she was free-speaking, had a mind of her own, that they were going to do this (allow Josh to stay with them) because Josh was someone in need and they wanted to help him. The judge was apparently very strong with her wording, telling her in no uncertain terms that if Josh broke the terms of the agreement that she was to consult Probation herself
first, not her husband, not Jim Bob. She agreed to this, knowing that the consequences of not following the rules of the court would be severely consequential to her directly. I think that this is a terrible position that her own husband is putting her in.
She is the one that is going to be spending the majority of the time with Josh alone. I can't believe that she's not worried about her own physical safety. Not that he might try to molest her, per say, but what if she caught him doing something unsavory and she was to try to report it and she was at home alone with him. There's not enough friendship in the world that would make me participate in this. Sorry.....
Someone also mentioned upthread that this woman is the piano teacher. Is she just going to stop earning a living for the next 6 month to a year while Josh is living in the house with them? I've seen on other threads where the community is extremely protective of the Duggar clan and will go to whatever lengths necessary to keep him out of jail. When I say the community, I'm referring to several counties in northern Arkansas. Some people are concerned that if this went to trial, there's no way they'd ever get a conviction, which is incredible, given how damning the evidence against him is.
The one thing that no one mentioned in court was the amount of the bail. They did discuss that Josh was paying for GPS monitoring in order to be out. The family did tell the court that they were not receiving any monetary benefit for allowing Josh to stay in their home. There hasn't been any indication anywhere about how much bond (if any) that Josh had to put up. I'm just going to say that if we have to wonder, then there is reason to doubt that he didn't pay a dime, and that opens a whole discussion about privilege. But that's belongs in the PI thread. It's just something to keep in mind.
Emily also said something else that I knew in the back of my mind, but wouldn't swear to it because I'm not a lawyer. She's a former CA Asst District Attorney, so she knows better than me. Paraphrasing her, if the Feds bring charges against you, the evidence is strong, and he will only be able to fight it and win on two fronts. The first would be if there was an evidentiary issue, meaning that evidence was collected improperly and didn't follow procedure and secondly, if they are able to prove that it wasn't him on the computer. The second theory goes out the window, considering that the investigator got on the stand and said that the log-ins used on these websites were Josh's own birthday, the same ones he used to access his banking info. You can't get more incriminating than that......It looks like there's a plea deal in his future, and he will get less time if they can get some of the evidence thrown out.
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️ or ignores responsibilities toward the kids. Any good parent should leave it their kids are in danger.
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