Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has found the real villain in the sordid scandal involving a popular reality TV family and molestation: The media, and possibly a certain right-leaning cable news network.
The Duggar family, of TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting” fame, has been fighting bad press these past few weeks after it was revealed in May that Josh Duggar, 27, had molested five girls between 2002 and 2003.
Many of his victims were his own sisters.
For the former Alaska governor and one-time Republican vice presidential candidate, however, media has behaved recklessly with the story. By interviewing two of Josh’s known victims, Jill and Jessa Duggar, media has “re-victimized” the two women all over again, she said.
“These girls are being re-victimized, for shame on the media for, under the guise of ‘Hey, gotta let them have their say anyway,’ let’s interview them and put them there, back into the fire, and let them explain,” Palin said this week in a Fox News interview. “They’re innocent!”
To date, Jill and Jessa Duggar, 24 and 22, respectively, have discussed their abuse with only one media figure: Fox’s Megyn Kelly.
“Josh was a boy, a young boy in puberty, and a little too curious about girls,” Jessa said in the interview.
InTouch magazine broke the Duggar scandal after it published a copy of a police report detailing the abuse. Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar didn’t file the police report until three years after the fact, meaning that the statute of limitations had run out by then.
No charges were ever brought against Josh Duggar.
(h/t Mediaite)
