We already knew this interview was NOT Jill Duggar Dillard‘s concept — nor what she would have needed to say to the general public. But it will get worse.
OK, rewind…
Many years earlier than the kid porn conviction, teen Josh Duggar confessed to his dad and mom he had been touching his youthful sisters and a household pal whereas they slept. It’s unclear if he got here clear as a result of he acquired caught. We do know from the testimony of household buddies Jim and Bobye Holt that he molested their daughters, too — and one fought again and advised.
In any case, 19 Kids and Counting patriarch Jim Bob Duggar tried to comb the entire thing underneath the rug, and it labored — till 2015. The police report Jim Bob had apparently gotten buried leaked out. The complete household needed to circle the wagons and… defend Josh??
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Yeah, Jill has already admitted within the Shiny Happy People docuseries that Jim Bob made her really feel she was “obligated” to do an interview for “damage control.” She and Jessa Duggar Seewald sat down with Megyn Kelly, who was nonetheless with Fox News on the time. They principally mentioned this was a household matter and so they needed to place all of it behind them. They implied the true downside was the leak and never, you recognize, being molested by their older brother. As for Josh, they really defended him!
Now we’ve an much more disturbing concept why. HE WAS IN THE FREAKIN’ ROOM!
In her surprising new memoir, Counting The Cost, Jill has revealed that Josh was within the room, off digital camera. She needed to face her abuser whereas being requested about it. Horrifying. She writes in her e-book that having to speak about it whereas he was proper there “was like having a bandage ripped off a deep and open wound.” In an excerpt obtained by DailyMail.com, she wrote:
“On that day we had taken our seats beneath the bright lights at the Big House and did what we could to stand up for our parents. Answering all Megyn’s questions, with Josh watching from a couch just out of shot, was like having a bandage ripped off a deep and open wound. It was agony, so painful that I didn’t really pause to ask why Josh was allowed to be there in the first place.”
Well, we’ll ask for heaven’s sake!
We already perceive how Jim Bob feels about ladies being much less vital and the way his firstborn son wanted to be protected in any respect prices. But WTF was Megyn Kelly considering permitting that?! How gross!
Obviously they need to by no means have been made to do the interview within the first place, however underneath these circumstances? Forget catharsis or reality, you’re not going to get any of that with the abuser watching from the sofa! She continued:
“What was worse was the fact that I’d hoped it would calm things down. It hadn’t. The paparazzi were still chasing us, the internet still feasting on us, poring over every statement from the network, every new photo, every new angle. My nightmares were getting worse and there was nothing I could do to block any of it out. All I was doing was surviving from one breath to the next.”
So upsetting.
For those that have seen the interview, their solutions definitely make much more sense now, proper? Like when Jessa mentioned
“I do want to speak up in his defense against people who are calling him a child molester or a pedophile or a rapist, some people are saying. I’m like, that is so overboard and a lie, really. I mean, people get mad at me for saying that but I am like, I can say this, you know? I was one of the victims.”
She continued:
“Josh was a boy, a young boy in puberty and a little too curious about girls, and that got him into some trouble. And he made some bad choices, but, really, the extent of it was mild — inappropriate touching on fully clothed victims, most of it while [the] girls were sleeping.”
Jim Bob’s phrases popping out of her mouth. He was nonetheless promoting that BS in his CSAM trial testimony. And the choose wasn’t shopping for.
Again, we now know “the extent of it” — together with admitting to touching ladies of their “private areas” underneath their “pantaloons and underwear.” The youngest such woman was 4 years outdated.
So no, it wasn’t a lie. Putting them on digital camera with Josh watching them the entire time — that was the lie. Watch the interview with recent eyes if you happen to can abdomen it (under):
[Image via Fox News Insider/YouTube/Washington County Detention Center.]
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