Has Josh Duggar really checked into a good rehab facility? And is he really there in the first place?
Josh supposedly entered Reformers Unanimous, apparently with the urging of his parents, last Aug. 25 after he admitted being unfaithful to his wife Anna following the disclosure that he had two paid accounts on the hacked cheating website Ashley Madison. Earlier, he was exposed for molesting five underage girls when he was only 14 years old, with his younger sisters Jill and Jessa among his victims.
The questions on Josh's stay at the Rockford, Illinois, Christian rehab facility arose when RadarOnline reported that the disgraced TV reality star hasn't been seen in any of the meetings in Reformers Unanimous, sparking concern on his whereabouts.
An eyewitness told the online news site that Josh was not seen in the company of a large group of students who arrived at the North Love Baptist Church, the facility's affiliate, for a meeting.
Josh was also not seen in last Sunday's church services. "Josh definitely wasn't there," an onlooker said. "It was very strange."
Patients at Reformers Unanimous are required to attend church services in the morning and in the evening.
Moreover, reports came out that Paul Kingsbury, the co-founder and chair of Reformers Unanimous, helped a man accused of sexual assault remain on a religious mission overseas to avoid prosecution in the United States.
According to Patheos, the man Kingsbury helped was Richard DeVall, a missionary currently serving in Bolivia with Baptist Pioneer Mission Agency. He was accused of committing sexual assault in the 1990s while he was a student at Bob Jones University (BJU). Even though he was expelled as a result of the allegations, he was later readmitted.
His unidentified female victim talked to authorities only in 2012. She also contacted Baptist Pioneer Mission Agency, expressing concern that DeVall might prove a risk to other people. She then asked that he be removed from field work.
However, when she made this request, she was told the missionary agency would protect him. DeVall adamantly refused to return to the US, saying the matter would be handled "in the Biblical way."
"One would think that accusations of sexual assault leveled against a missionary would lead a church to have second thoughts about sending them into the field, but it appears that this has not occurred in DeVall's case," Libby Anne writes in her blog. She wonders "how an individual alleged to have such a troubled relationship with both legal accountability for sex offenses and established best practices for handling cases of sexual abuse can be expected to run an affective and above-board rehab programme for individuals."
