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Thursday, February 1, 2018
Jessa Duggar: Mom-Shamed Over Spurgeon"s Bad Behavior
Mom-shaming the Duggars seems to be one of the internet’s favorite pastimes these days.
The ladies just can’t do anything right in the eyes of some of their “fans,” and the parenting experts of social media have been happily doling out their wisdom and advice at every opportunity.
Lately, it’s Jessa Duggar who’s been the favorite target of Instagram mom-shamers.
Just last week, Jessa was slammed for her failure to properly homeschool her kids.
The Duggars educate their children in-house, and based on a short video of 2-year-old Spurgeon standing near a whiteboard with some misspelled words, some of Jessa’s IG followers determined that she’s not up to the task.
This week, it’s Spurgeon’s behavior that’s under fire, and the evidence is just as dubious.
Jessa recently posted the photo below on her page, along with a lengthy description of a humorous incident:
“Out shopping for groceries – AND – a new phone for Dad, since the 2-year-old did an experiment of sink or swim… in the toilet,” she wrote.
“It did not swim.”
Jessa even gave fans a hilarious snippet of dialogue to really set the scene:
“Mommy, fix it!” “Umm…did you spill water?” Ben: There’s water on the rim of the toilet.” she wrote.
“Screen was black. Phone was boiling hot and completely fried,” Jessa added.
“Ha! Parents can attest, sometimes you gotta laugh so you don’t cry. Can’t stay mad for more than a sec tho… he’s such a cute little stinker!”
Not surprisingly, the shamers came out in force for this one.
Most simply lobbed half-hearted criticism at Jessa, accusing her of failing to properly discipline her children.
But one follower shared a story about the dangers of neglect with a potentially tragic outcome:
“I’m just sending out a warning that it takes 10 seconds for a child to drowned in a toilet and I know this from personal experience so yes if he was allowed to be in there with the toilet seat open unattended that they didn’t know what he was doing I feel the need to give a fair warning,” the fan wrote.
We’re sure Jessa doesn’t mind real advice that comes from a place of genuine concern.
It’s the vitriolic, seething hatred that gets old in a hurry and makes one wonder why these people continue to follow her on social media.
Fortunately, for every hater, there was at least one fan willing to come to Jessa’s defense.
“It hurts my heart to scroll past some of these nasty comments above,” wrote one fan.
“You’re a great mama, don’t ever forget that.”
This is far from the first time that Jessa has shared her parenting challenges with fans in a charmingy self-deprecatin fashion.
Last year, Jessa posted photos of her messy house and was attacked in a similar fashion.
That’ll teach her to reveal details of her personal life in a forum that’s intended for that very purpose!
Watch Counting On online for more on reality TV’s most controversial family.
Mark Salling: Why His Suicide May Screw Over His Victims
Prior to Mark Salling committing suicide this week, the former Glee star pleaded guilty to a number of child pornography charges.
In December, Selling entered a guilty plea in court, faced with mounting evidence against him that included the discovery of 50,000-plus images of prepubescent children on his personal devices.
Moreover, authorities reportedly found a video of a five-year-old girl performing a sex act on Salling.
We’re talking truly heinous stuff here.
It’s why many people out there were not sad to read that Salling took his own life via hanging on Tuesday.
However, it’s now come to light that Salling’s decision to kill himself may have a negative impact on those who suffered at his hands.
As part of his plea deal, it had been agreed to months ago that Salling would pay each of his molestation victims $ 50,000.
But this had not been made official by a judge.
Now that the actor isn’t actually around to make any payments, an insider explains to Us Weekly why the victims may never see this money.
“Restitution would be a part of his sentence,” the source explains. “The amount of the restitution is determined by the sentencing judge.”
The problem is that Salling was due to be sentenced in March.
“He will not be sentenced,” the tabloid’s expert continues.
“Therefore there will be no restitution order… I doubt that there is anything to take to civil court. Any restitution order would be allocated among multiple known victims.”
In other words, as cited above, the plea deal had been reached, yes.
Restitution had been agreed upon.
But Salling killed himself before a judge could actually order it paid.
“The amount allocated to each would be different based upon, for example, therapy expenses they have incurred,” this source expounds.
“No such order has been entered. I am unclear as to how anyone feels that they could go into court to enforce an order which has not been entered.
“I’m not saying that there isn’t some lawyer out there willing to file suit on behalf of someone claiming to be a victim.
“But I am saying, that there is no order to be enforced, for $ 50,000 or any other amount on behalf of anyone.”
A coroner has confirmed that Salling died by hanging himself on Tuesday.
He was set to be sentenced to a minimum of four years in prison on March 7.
According to E! News, Salling had been isolated for quite some time before his suicide, having lost contact with almost anyone close to him.
“He had demons he was wrestling with for many years,” this outlet writes, sort of stating the obvious.
After Salling’s body was found in a park near his home, his lawyer made the following statement:
I can confirm that Mark Salling passed away early this morning. Mark was a gentle and loving person, a person of great creativity, who was doing his best to atone for some serious mistakes and errors of judgment.
He is survived by his mother and father, and his brother.
The Salling family appreciates the support they have been receiving and asks for their privacy to be respected.
Riverdale Season 2 Episode 12 Recap: Two Murders Rock the Town
Maybe everyone in Riverdale should just stop sinning.
You would think that all of the drama with the Black Hood would mean everyone in town would stop sinning.
However, that does not appear to be the case and Riverdale Season 2 Episode 12 concluded with two shocking murders.
When the episode got underway, Veronica was preparing for being introduced to the family formally, and Hiram invited Archie to a poker game at Pop’s.
Veronica grew concerned that Archie was getting too close to the family business and tried to warn her boyfriend off of her father.
But Archie was too busy trying to keep the FBI at bay in order to care about all of it. The officer wanted Archie to wear a wire to the big event, but the teenager shut him down.
At the poker game, one of the men tried to make fun of the food, and Archie heard him outside conferring with another gangster about taking Hiram out of the equation right after Veronica’s communion.
Archie managed to tell Hiram in the nick of time, and Hiram put a plan in motion to have him murdered in his hotel room. It worked, but were the Lodges really safe?
The mayor gave the order to have the trailer park struck down that the serpents were living in. Tall Boy tried to blame Jughead and his friends because they were the ones who made the silent protest.
Penny Peabody returned with a vengeance and said she would help out if Jughead was removed from the team and if she got to remove his serpent tattoo.
This put Jughead in a difficult situation: Did he find out who the real villain was that stole the head off the Pickens statue, or did he just allow it to happen?
Thankfully, he and Betty put up flyers for information and someone from a junkyard contacted them. The man confirmed Tall Boy was the one who stole the head.
Jughead confronted him, along with the other serpents who voted to oust him from the group.
Meanwhile, Betty appeared on webcam in an attempt to find the darkness inside of her. She was then shocked to find a man leaving the home and Chic barely dressed.
He told Betty he had a new job at Bijou and was very rude to Betty in the process when she quizzed what was going on.
In the end, a figure appeared at the Cooper residence looking for Chic and the man was murdered a few moments later. Betty returned home to find Alice cleaning up a dead body.
With all of the sinning going on, the Black Hood is definitely going to be making a return trip!
What did you think of the episode?
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