Josh Duggar Records Destroyed By Arkansas Police At Judge's Request

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

If a record is expunged then why would it be "kept indefinately"?

Someone is wrong and/or lying.

OR you don't know how the legal system works.

An expunged record simply means that if he were arrested for something later on down the road , the juvenile charges wouldn't be used as a basis to lengthen any sentence. In other words, he wouldn't be deemed a repeat offender.. Expunged does NOT mean that all records of the events are destroyed.

So the article is wrong, ad the OP is wrong. The judge ordered the record EXPUNGED, he did NOT order it DESTROYED.

 

[Muhammed]

So, the father covered it up, then the mother lied about his punishment, and their Republican friends have now destroyed all the records.

Conservative values, indeed.

And wingnuts complain about Hillary?

Josh Duggar Records Destroyed By Arkansas Police At Judge's Request

Police in Arkansas have destroyed records detailing the investigation into sexual abuse allegations against TLC's "19 Kids and Counting" star Josh Duggar.

“The judge ordered us yesterday to expunge that record,” Springdale Police spokesman Scott Lewis told The Associated Press on Friday. "As far as the Springdale Police Department is concerned this report doesn't exist."

Lewis also told the AP that these types of records are usually kept indefinitely.

A 2006 police report, which was obtained by In Touch before its destruction, indicates that family patriarch Jim Bob Duggar knew as early as 2002 that Josh Duggar -- who was 14 at the time -- was accused of sexually abusing an underage girl. The teen was ultimately accused of inappropriately touching five underage girls, some of whom were his sisters, between 2002 and 2003.

Police did not find out about the allegations until 2006, when they were tipped off to a letter discussing the incidents, the AP reports. A family friend had lent another person a book, and the letter was stuck inside.

The police report obtained by In Touch indicates Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar told police in 2006 that they had disciplined their son themselves.

The couple allegedly said that they sent Josh Duggar to a “Christian program” that “consisted of physical hard work and counseling.” Michelle Duggar later admitted that they actually just sent him to live with a family friend to help with a home remodeling business, according to In Touch.

Why do you have such a creepy hard-on for that Duggar kid?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Now you guys are getting desperate.

Why does it matter? He was a juvenile at the very least the records would be sealed. The charge would have been fourth degree sexual assault. A victim requested the records destroyed. The statute of limitations expired.

This is just gossip of the old ladies. Time to get a life folks.

Ask yourself why one of the victims asked that the record be destroyed.

He's joking about incest and the fundies are making excuses for him but, the victims don't get the luxury of forgetting.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Destroying records, who does he think he is, a Clinton?

 

[hortysir]

Now you guys are getting desperate.

Why does it matter? He was a juvenile at the very least the records would be sealed. The charge would have been fourth degree sexual assault. A victim requested the records destroyed. The statute of limitations expired.

This is just gossip of the old ladies. Time to get a life folks.

Ask yourself why one of the victims asked that the record be destroyed.

He's joking about incest and the fundies are making excuses for him but, the victims don't get the luxury of forgetting.

Don't need to ask. It's already answered.
She was a minor and didn't want her name leaked.
A sealed juvenile record should have never been leaked. The "journalist" that revealed it has zero ethics.
The girl had every right to think that her name might come out.

 

[Papageorgio]

Now you guys are getting desperate.

Why does it matter? He was a juvenile at the very least the records would be sealed. The charge would have been fourth degree sexual assault. A victim requested the records destroyed. The statute of limitations expired.

This is just gossip of the old ladies. Time to get a life folks.

Ask yourself why one of the victims asked that the record be destroyed.

He's joking about incest and the fundies are making excuses for him but, the victims don't get the luxury of forgetting.

I understand your feelings, but the police record provided nothing. Why a victim asked is suspicious but it isn't your business or anyone else's you honestly think that all this attention to this story is going to help the victims.

I see the liberals as giddy over catching a conservative in wrong doing. I see conservatives minimizing. But over the years I see no difference in the two sides. Liberals dismiss wrongdoing of liberals, conservatives dismiss the wrongdoing of conservatives.

I see neither side as taking the high ground in this issue.

 

[Synthaholic]

Sealed is not the same as destroyed.