Tag: Duggars

Tonight Jessa Seewald and Jill Dillard, two of Josh Duggar’s sisters who he has admitted to touching inappropriately while they slept, tell Megyn Kelly of Fox News that after the incidents their parents began a policy of locking bedroom doors out of fear the “touching” would occur again.

Also, the kids were told they could not be left alone with one another.

All in all, though, the sisters defend their brother. According to a transcript of tonight’s interview, Seewald downplays the entire issue, saying, “I’m like, that is so overboard and a lie really. People get mad at me for saying that, but I can say this because I was one of the victims.”

The second part of Megyn Kelly’s interviews with the Duggars airs tonight at 9pm.

Meanwhile, In Touch Weekly has addressed many of the twists, turns and contortions Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar made in their “interview” with Megyn Kelly. Including the fact that the police report that began this whole debacle was NOT illegally released.

It turns out it wasn’t filed until after Josh Duggar was over 18, meaning it did not have to be sealed. The names of the victims were redacted as they were underage, but the file was not sealed. The report was obtained via a legal request through the Freedom of Information Act.

It all just keeps getting more and more sordid.

More at Buzzfeed.

Sportwriter Mike Lupica pens an awesome essay for the NY Daily News regarding the twisting, turning tale of Josh Duggar and the media circus surrounding the newly discovered hypocrisy of the family’s “moral superiority:”

Back in April, Josh Duggar, who used to star in a family television series until the world discovered that he used to improperly touch underage girls whether he was related to them or not, was in Washington, D.C., for the National Organization for Marriage’s “March for Marriage.”

Duggar, being a good Duggar, was there to stand up for what Christian conservatives like himself and his mom and his dad think of as “traditional” marriage, and to tell everybody that good Christians like himself have been persecuted because of their faith during the debate about gay marriage in this country.

“America,” Josh Duggar said at the time, God bless him, “was founded on respect, tolerance, and really not discriminating against people based on their religious convictions.”

You would think, just in the interest of full disclosure, and knowing what he knew about himself before the rest of us found out, that he could have added that respect in America also ought to include respect for the rights of children, even when he was sneaking into their bedrooms at night. But as so often happens with people like Josh Duggar, they’ve got their gospel and the rest of us have to make do with ours.

[snip]

The Duggars want this all to be about a sealed juvenile record becoming public, as part of their professional victimization. Right. Now they want privacy.

No, the story here is what their son did, sometimes to sleeping girls, and the fact that they are still — and shamelessly — trying to defend him and themselves. You know what these parents really sounded like with Megyn Kelly as they tried to save their creepy empire?

They sounded like accessories after the fact.

I love that Lupica calls out the “sleight of hand” underway by the Duggars trying to make the “privacy” issue THE issue. Suddenly a family that sought TV fame for ten years wants privacy.

Got it.