Originally I didn't know much about what happened and not being one that watches their program I also wasn't aware that this happened before the show. I was under the (incorrect) impression that they made decisions about this to avoid having the show cancelled but that's not the case. These things happened before the show ever began.
Regarding the word hypocrite ... seems to me that there is a great deal of hypocrisy on the part of those who are condemning them and being so critical of them yet NO, not a single word, about those who (with an agenda) released these police documents and also no condemnation against the magazine that made it public. All the talk is as if this son, and the father, and seemingly the whole family, should be banished and punished in the most horrendous way for the son touching these girls. What he did wasn't right and non one is saying it was but there is silence about the releasing of this information and use of it publicly and no one saying that those who did the releasing and publicizing of it needing to be punished. What Josh did was a poor decision made many years ago, as a child (himself) and revealed only because he had remorse over it and sought forgiveness. Those who released the information and are making so much about it today are doing so purposely and are adults who know that these girls are being damaged by it. There are many hoping that the release of this information can in some way shut up the family and cause them to lose their TV series. There is no doubt that there was an agenda behind the release and use of the information yet no condemnation that the original victims are now made victims again and this time deliberately.
The real hypocrisy here is how people are saying this is so bad yet having absolutely no problem with these girls being used and victimized again in order to try and strike out at the Family, most certainly because of their Christian beliefs and advocacy for those beliefs when it comes to Gay Marriage and abortion and other issues. People are pointing fingers at them claiming they are judgmental yet at the very same time the very same people are making judgments about them. They are doing exactly the same thing that they are accusing the family of doing.
Personally I hope that the family and the kids individually, have suits against the State of Arkansas as well as the employee that released the documents and certainly against the publication that made it public. The State employee that released the papers should suffer financially for certainly that's why she waited to release it. Wait until she was to retire and nothing could be done about it and potentially resulting in her losing her job.
After hearing the interviews and getting the information from the Family and direct from the Girls the real horrible people are the ones using this, from the standpoint of having an agenda, and have no concern or (REAL) care at all for the Girls or actual victims of the touching, acting as if the Family are the evil ones while having no concern or condemnation about those who would release the information that was promised to be kept private due to their ages.