Jinger Duggar Says Brother Josh -- Who Admitted To Molesting Sisters As Teen -- Never 'Truly Changed'
01.02.2023 - 18:37
/ perezhilton.com
We never thought we’d say this, but… preach, Jinger Duggar!
The 19 Kids And Counting alum is promoting her new memoir Becoming Free Indeed, available at bookstores now, and a big part of her press tour has — unfortunately for her — been answering questions about her brother.
In one of the most horrifying celebrity scandals we’ve ever covered, Josh Duggar was convicted of possession of child porn back in December 2021. Considering the shocking headlines, it’s natural for folks to have questions for Jinger. But we’d actually argue it’s pretty apt considering her book’s subject matter. She’s telling the story of being raised in a family that used fear to subjugate its girls. And the idea that their silence also made them complicit in Josh’s continued wrongdoing is all a part of the same story.
Related: Jinger Calls Josh A ‘Hypocrite’ In Furious First Statement On Child Porn Conviction
For those who don’t know, Josh admitted to molesting his younger sisters when he was a teenager. That news came out years later, in 2015, when a police report was unearthed about it. It turned out patriarch Jim Bob Duggar had kept the whole thing quiet, possibly even using his political connections to bury the police report for years. Josh got an old-fashioned talking-to. And that was it. No rehabilitation, no treatment, nothing official. At Josh’s trial family friends also testified Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar knew about Josh molesting their daughters, too — one as young as 4. That was kept quiet for nearly two decades.
So years later when he’s busted downloading the most heinous child torture porn in the world it’s absolutely fair to tie that to his parents’ handling of the earlier transgression. He got away with it. So he kept going.
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