Thoughts On The Duggar Scandal

Okay, so in an attempt to avoid negativity and heartbreak in my life, I usually avoid all news. I am an empath and it takes but even a mention of some tragedy somewhere, and I am a crying mess. I don't watch any news broadcasts, I turn off the radio at news hour, and I never even glance at newspapers. Some people think I'm essentially burying my head in the proverbial sand. My response to that is usually:

Anyway, some news is pretty much unavoidable, since it's splattered all over social media like the vomit of a drunken coed. Such news I am here to talk about today is the Josh Duggar molestation incident. 

I haven't kept up with every detail of the case, since I really don't want to know. But one thing I heard through the grapevine about it is that the molestation was committed against the girls while they were asleep.  This struck me right in the feels, because in my own past, I was molested in my sleep by a youth minister of a Baptist church. I was not a child when it happened, which is I guess the one good thing I can say about the man who did it. But it did make me wonder how safe any kids were around him after that.

The scary/odd thing is that this is not the first or second or even third time that I have learned about a so-called man of the cloth molesting someone while they sleep. What is it about? Does the shame of what they are about to do make it impossible for them to assault someone while they're awake? Is there some kind of religious kink I don't know about associated with people who are sleeping? Psychologically speaking, this is very interesting to me.

Spiritually though? It makes me pretty sick.