Much like In Touch Weekly, People Magazine put the Duggars’ House of Horrors on this week’s cover. Unlike In Touch, People Magazine is in bed with the Duggar family, and has been for several years. When last week’s scandal broke, the Duggars gave a series of exclusives statements to People Magazine – People is their media outlet of choice, which is enough reason to side-eye the crap out of whatever People Mag says about them. So what is this week’s People Mag cover story about? Not much, honestly. It’s a recap of all the crap that’s already gone down, with a few sprinkles of new info, like this:

The future of TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting is on shaky ground following the revelation that a felony investigation was opened in 2006 after Josh Duggar was accused by his victims of molesting five underage girls. In statements to PEOPLE, the Duggar family indirectly addressed the closed investigation by referring to the multiple incidents listed in the report unearthed by InTouch Weekly as “teenage mistakes.”

Michelle and Jim Bob are “devastated” over the leak, a source close to the family tells PEOPLE. “They know that they did the best they could, but it doesn’t mean they’re not filled with regret.”

While TLC has pulled reruns of its massive ratings success from the schedule, the network has yet to make any official decision about the future of 19 Kids moving forward.

However, as the source tells PEOPLE, Michelle and Jim Bob are not currently focused on the very real possibility that they’ll lose the TV show on which they’ve built a veritable empire: “Right now they’re just focused on their faith – and each other.”

[From People]

Do you believe that Jim-Bob and Michelle are not concerned about the fate of their reality show? I wonder. People Mag also did a separate story about how TLC is thinking about just making 19 Kids & Counting into a spinoff show about Jessa and Jill and their new families. TMZ’s sources have been saying the same thing for a week, so I believe it. TLC are trying to figure out a way to salvage something off of the sinking Duggar ship. Meanwhile, even more advertisers have announced that they will not air their ads if and when TLC puts 19 Kids & Counting back on the air. So far, this is the list of advertisers pulling out of Cult Duggar: Ace Hardware, David’s Bridal, Pure Leaf Iced Tea, General Mills Inc., Payless Shoesource Inc., Choice Hotels International Inc., CVS, H&R Block, Jimmy Dean, Walgreens ConAgra Foods, Party City, Behr, Ricola and Keurig. Word.

Meanwhile, you know how Jim-Bob took Josh Duggar – who was then 14, I think – to a cop buddy and the buddy didn’t investigate Josh and basically told Josh that it was all good? Later that same cop buddy was found guilty of child p0rn charges and sentenced to jail for more than 50 years. And that same cop buddy is talking to In Touch Weekly. His name is Joseph Hutchens and he was a state trooper at the time of the Duggar incident. Hutchens says that Jim-Bob and Josh lied to him about how many times Josh abused his sisters:

Joseph Hutchens, in his only interview since the Duggar scandal has been uncovered, says that Jim Bob told him about only one incident of molestation and that, in part, is why he decided not to report Josh to the abuse hotline. Hutchens is serving 56 years in prison for child pornography and admits his “reputation is shot.” He was interviewed by a representative of a local law firm for In Touch and promised nothing in return for his recollections.

Hutchens’ failure to report the abuse caused the police to halt their 2006 investigation because the statute of limitations ran out. In the new interview from prison, Hutchens said he was told by Jim Bob and Josh that “Josh had inappropriately touched [redacted] during the time she was asleep. He said he touched her through her clothing and he said it only happened one time.”

He said the fact that it was a one-time incident influenced his decision not to report it. “I did what I thought was right and obviously it wasn’t,” he says. “If I had to do it over again, I would have told him immediately I am going to call the hotline and contacted the trooper that worked those cases and have a full report made. I thought I could handle it myself. I have lost a lot of sleep over it. I am a Christian myself and I worry that something else may have happened. I would be responsible for it, in my opinion, by not reporting it. The young girl should have been my first priority.”

[From In Touch Weekly]

That’s a good lesson for all state troopers, cops, detectives, whatever: stop thinking about how an investigation is going to affect the “poor” perpetrator of said sex crime and think about the actual victims of the crime. As we’ve seen so often, rape culture sadly extends to too many investigators and law enforcement types who care more about how a young rapist/child molester’s life is going to be “ruined” rather than the actual victims.

Cover courtesy of People, photos courtesy of Duggar social media.