And now, as Paul Harvey said "the rest of the story": Dunham also admitted to using her sister as a "sexual outlet," bribing her to kiss her, and masturbating while in bed with the child - every bit as disturbing as Duggar's actions. Both should be condemned. The fact that Rifle would even try to justify one over the other is proof of his ridiculous agenda. Both should have faced consequences for their actions.
can we all agree, as the american academy of pediatrics states, that the incident at 7 years old is "common and normal" for children to do? if so, lets discuss the other two incidents that im aware of:
1) she bribed her sister with three pieces of candy to kiss her on the lips for five seconds. how old were they? if kissing on the lips, closed-mouth, with a sibling is considered inappropriate/abuse, im pretty sure we all are guilty of it as children.
2) masturbating while in the same bed as her sister; unless the girls are touching each other, making the other watch, etc., this leaves a lot of unknowns. is the younger sister asleep and dunham rolled over facing away from the sister? does the presence of the younger sister have anything to do with the masturbation or was it simply a coincidence/norm that they slept in the same bed? an ex of mine used to have an issue because she babysat twin girls (from the ages of 6-8). one of the girls would constantly grind her genitals against the arm of a couch. she would literally straddle the couch arm and grind back-and-forth against it. she had been scolded about it and knew she wasnt supposed to do it, but she did anyways because she said it felt good. was this girl inappropriate by doing this in front of her sister and others? show me these book excerpts.
taking those two instances and trying to tie them into the same thing as what the duggar guy did is quite a huge leap without more information than what was reported. the duggar kid, many times, would put his hands on the genitals of four of his younger sisters and a younger girl they babysat both on top of and under their clothes, both while the girls were asleep and awake.
without even discussing the disgusting actions, or lack thereof, of his parents, you think duggar's actions are anywhere near dunham kissing her sister on the lips for 5 seconds and masturbating while in the same bed (which could be very innocent to very bad depending on the unknown details of it).