I don't think he has. I do believe that in this case the statistic holds true. Why? Because if he had done anything to anyone else, we would have heard of it by now.
I just don't think anyone would be silent.
Well I don't see why this should be so. It's not like loads of sexual abuse victims aren't silent every day, everywhere... It is a notoriously underreported crime, and only a small portion of those who go to the police to complain go to the press to complain.
For instance, we haven't heard from the babysitter at all, and the Duggar girls were silent in public until it came out through other routes forced to do damage control for Josh.
Not everybody is looking forward to having the kind of media attention that you'd get from being a sexual abuse victim in the middle of a scandal in the best of circumstances, and there are several circumstances that might make it even harder for further victims to come out.
Suppose he abused some of his younger sisters they likely wouldn't come out as victims as the parents are their authority and the parents' party line is "he's learned his lesson and stopped and can we get our TLC income back please". The parents clearly desire for this to go away quietly and it would be very hard for the Duggar children to go against their parents I think, and there are financial motives to try to appear as a wholesome family.
Suppose he abused girls from their brand of religion there might be further issues with the defrauding, purity, etc. holding the victims back.
Then again, the Duggars said that he abused sleeping victims who knew nothing about it, so there might conceivably be further sleeping victims who know nothing about it.
Suppose he abused someone who is still a child, let's say, five or so, they're not going to even know how to call Fox News and tell the media all about it. Would they even be able to understand that what was happening was sexual abuse?
It would likely be up to the parents to call it sexual abuse and inform anyone (if they know about it) and apparently it's not unheard of in their circles that parents minimize and make excuses for and sweep sexual abuse under the rug. The ATI guidelines to dealing with abuse were linked here earlier and the offender was given multiple chances to repent and the church elders had to be consulted before the police, and calling CNN wasn't on the list. It wouldn't be in the proper, forgiving spirit at all and might bring shame to the cause of Christ.
Then if we uppose he abused his own children, they'd be even less likely to complain because they're still very young, it'd be their daddy, their authority and their provider, their mother's authority and provider (so she'd have a high threshold for reporting on their behalf) and the same under-the-rug culture issues apply.
And there's even a presidential candidate saying Josh is a swell guy and should be forgiven, so there. If the victims moved in the circles where Huckabee is revered there would likely be people in their social network who wouldn't react favorably if someone gave interviews, "yeah Josh abused me too".
Also, if any of the victims followed the Cosby scandal, they might have noticed that there's a lot of vitriol against women who come out as victims, branding them liars who are just jumping on the bandwagon, trying to ruin a good man's name because of politics etc. That wouldn't be encouraging I think.
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