This spotlight being shone on this non celebrity couple by embracing a horrid celebrity is going to expose the husband of the non celebrity couple.

Lacount Reber, Maria Reber

Josh Duggar

Josh Duggar Will Be Released into Custody of ‘Close Friends’ of the Family, Lacount and Maria Reber

Josh Duggar is set to be released from prison Thursday as he faces charges for receiving and possessing child pornography.

On Wednesday, a judge ruled that Duggar, 33, will be released to designated third party custodians, Lacount and Maria Reber, described in court as “close friends” of the Duggar family.

As Duggar’s custodians, the Rebers will monitor his activities to make sure he stays in compliance with court orders while his case is pending. They are required by law to report if Duggar violates any court orders.

Earlier in the hearing, a federal probation officer, Diem Nguyen, was called as a witness and recommended to the court that Duggar not be released.

During his testimony, Nguyen said that Maria had expressed concerns to the probation office about Duggar’s release into their home because her husband works full-time and there are several hours per day she would be alone with Duggar.

“Mrs. Reber was concerned regarding being left alone with Josh, because he was a male and she was a female,” Nguyen said, adding that “she wasn’t sure how she felt about being alone with him for long durations of time.”

Maria also told Nguyen that she and her husband did not know Duggar well, but they were close with his parents — Jim Bob and Michelle — who asked them to serve as his custodians.

“She and her husband felt that they should help Mr. Duggar’s parents and Mr. Duggar,” he said during his testimony. – Source

I could’ve been a Duggar wife: I grew up in the same church, and the abuse scandal doesn’t shock me

Unlike most of the writers covering the Duggar sex scandal, I was raised in Advanced Training Institute (ATI), the fundamentalist Christian organization with which the family is affiliated. Joshua Duggar’s confession of sexually molesting young girls in his family’s home when he was a teenager didn’t surprise me, nor should it surprise anyone with any intimate knowledge about this organization, because ATI’s theological beliefs and practices cultivate an environment where women and children are more vulnerable to rape and sexual abuse. Ironically, the same theological beliefs and practices at the heart of this scandal are the same beliefs that created the Duggars as a media phenomenon, and drew viewers and fans to their TLC show “19 Kids and Counting.”

Non-mainstream religious sects have certainly been enjoying a cultural moment on television: “The Following,” “Sister Wives,” “Breaking Amish.” Netflix’s dark comedy “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” explores the media hype around religious cult survivors in satirical detail. For me, though, that show should have come with a trigger warning, because in many ways, I am a real Kimmy Schmidt — a woman who spent her adolescence trapped inside a metaphorical bunker, and then was thrust into a world that she had never been prepared to be a part of. – Source


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