Antigay activist and former reality star Josh Duggar keeps on losing, and losing.
Last week, the Arkansas Supreme Court declined to review a lower court’s ruling dismissing his lawsuit against police for releasing his criminal records pertaining to that time he molested two of his sisters in their sleep.
A little backstory: In 2015, the celebrity gossip rag In Touch reported that, in 2006, Josh fondled several young girls, including two of his own sisters, while they slept. Not only that, but his parents, Jim Bob and Michelle, knew about it and tried to cover it up.
At the time the story broke, the Duggars were at the peak of their popularity with the hit TLC reality series 19 Kids and Counting, which chronicled daily life in their extremely antigay Baptist household.
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Afterwards, Josh admitted to the molestations but insisted that God had forgiven him. Then he checked into a sex rehab clinic. But not before losing his cushy job as at the antigay hate group Family Research Council.
Meanwhile, TLC canceled the Duggars’ show.
Josh quickly filed two lawsuits, one against In Touch for outing him as a child molester, and one against police in Springdale and Washington counties for invasion of privacy after they released his criminal records after receiving a Freedom of Information Act.
In 2017, a judge threw out his lawsuit against In Touch, noting that the First Amendment protected the magazine because the information it published was factual.
Then in 2018, a different judge threw out his lawsuit against Springdale and Washington counties, noting that state law does not prohibit the release of a person’s criminal records, even if they were a juvenile at the time of the offense.
The judge also questioned why Josh was complaining about invasion of privacy when he and his family had been the subjects of a reality show for years and years.
Josh appealed the dismissal and, in April, the Arkansas Court of Appeals ruled that, nope, sorry, the lower court’s decision would be upheld. That’s when he went to the Arkansas Supreme Court.
Now that the state’s Supreme Court has weighed in on the matter, it appears Josh has exhausted every legal option available to him and will just have to live with the fact that he molested his sisters, that’s gross, and there’s nobody he can blame for it but himself.
Since the scandal, the Duggar family has managed to rebrand itself by launching a new reality series called Counting On; however, Josh does not appear on the show. Instead, he purportedly earns his living selling used cars while stewing over his poor life choices.
Cam
“The judge also questioned why Josh was complaining about invasion of privacy when he and his family had been the subjects of a reality show for years and years.”
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Nice to see an anti-LGBT bigot getting shade thrown at them by a judge.
CurtisIsTheOne
Oh, SNAP, girlfriend!
peteinpa001
Selling used cars. That’s a slap in the face to the good guys trying to make a living doing that.
Kaaper
As a victim of child abuse, I absolutely DESPISE this person! He should be put down like the dog he is!
Donald Dork
Cry me a river
Cam
The scary thing about that family was, when Josh molested his two sisters it turns out that the father took him to talk to two different friends.
BOTH of those friends have been implicated in kiddie porn or child molestation.
So, the father had two “Friends” he took his son who molested kids to, who just HAPPENED to be child molesters.
Also people who molest (Josh) are very often people who were molested themselves.
This is the problem with this ultra religious home schoolers. The dangerous ones find each other and there is nobody to protect those kids. This whole family is dangerous.
rockland2u
you cant publicly admit to a horrendous crime, and then complain anyone reports it or wants to talk about it, idiot, a little shaming is the least of your problems
Tombear
Usually men, most men, get better looking in their 30s and 40s. God has NOT been kind to Josh Duggar!
@dusyk
Damn dat Duggar get fat and disgusting!
Cam
Even better apparently the used car lot he opened was cited for not having proper permits and he was ordered to do improvements and get the proper certifications, then recently Homeland Security apparently raided it for an investigation they’re keeping quite about.
Invader7
PERVERT Sicko.. Seems a number of CHILD molesters originate from overly religious, home “schooled” families. Maybe there’s way more going on with the father and his children..Just saying… And Josh gets his knickers in a twist cause the authorities LEGALLY release his police records. Well, bitch too fricking bad – you fricking SICKO PERVERT. You MOLESTED your own sisters when they were very young. You should be chemically castrated and then put in prison for life for what you did !!! You belong in HELL eternally !!! LOSER schmuck d-bag PERVERT …
WSnyder
Food for Thought: A family who touts religious morals as the lynch-pin of their family values and celebrity status has managed to raise an amoral son who molested 2 sisters and other young girls and tried to cover it up.
I don’t believe this family is truly driven by morality. At All.
Bob
Their version of morality is meant to show to other people. It has nothing to do with family members or their behavior.
Kevan1
L-O-S-E-R!
Jaroslaw
Of course this guy is a piece of dirt and I dont have any sympathy for him …….but It is worth noting that many FOIA requests are thwarted by the government on what could be arguably more important issues or at least ones that affect exponentially more people. And don’t juvenile offenses get expunged? Seems like this is just keeping the pot stirred about gay related issues.
Eric R. Wilson
Incestuous pervert.!!
Low Country Boy
I think people need to boycott TLC for allowing these heinous people to “rebrand” the show without child molester, Josh, and continue to make money off of their hateful views.
CityguyUSA
Amazing that he can get legal help for molesting his sisters but I can’t get legal help when my insurance company defrauds me.