Duggar Scandal Cover-Up: Family Stonewalled DHS Investigators Recently As May 27, New Report Says
The Duggar scandal took a shocking new turn Wednesday, with suggestions that the cover-up stemming from child molestation reports against Duggar scion Josh may be continuing.
According to newly released documents, a Department of Human Services investigator was sent to the Duggar home as recently as May 27 — just two weeks ago.
But the Duggar family was so uncooperative that the DHS employee had to call 911 from outside the Duggar residence in Springdale, Ark., according to a the documents uncovered with a Freedom of Information request by In Touch Weekly Magazine — the publication whose reporting broke the Josh Duggar molestation scandal in the first place.
Earlier this week, In Touch reporter Rick Egusquiza told The Advocate magazine, “I don’t think we’re done with the Duggars yet.” Three days later, the magazine published the newly uncovered 911 call from two weeks ago.
“We have an investigation and I guess they’re not being cooperative,” the DHS investigator tells the 911 operator in the newly released call transcript. “We have to see the child to make sure the child is all right. So we just need police assistance.”
The new document reveals only that a 911 call was made by the investigator. Why the investigator was sent to the Duggar home to “make sure the child is all right” was not revealed, and DHS records are not public record and therefore not subject to Freedom of Information requirements.
Whether police were able to force the Duggar family to cooperate with the new investigation was also not made clear.
In their June 3 Fox News interview with anchor Megyn Kelly, Duggar parents Jim-Bob and Michelle, stars of the TLC reality show 19 Kids and Counting, made no mention of what appears to be a current DHS investigation targeting the Duggars.
Instead, the Duggars lashed back at the media outlets that have reported on the scandal, accusing officials in Springdale of illegally releasing documents pertaining to the Josh Duggar child molestation incidents — and implying that the town’s police chief Kathy O’Kelley may have been bribed by the magazine to make the documents public.
On June 8, city officials fired back at the Duggar clan and their allegations.
“The City will not dignify suggestions of misconduct in this matter by Chief O’Kelley with any comment beyond labeling them as outrageous and categorically false,” a statement on the city’s official online site read. “Chief O’Kelley is a dedicated public servant whose career in law enforcement has been committed to duty and the adherence to the law.”
The Duggar scandal began when In Touch revealed that the 19 Kid and Counting family had been investigated in 2006 and 2007, and at that time did not fully cooperate with police looking into the child molestation allegations.
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