- Jill Duggar Dillard opens up about the aftermath of her brother Josh Duggar’s molestation scandal in her new book.
- She reveals that reading the police report made her wish she were dead.
- During the scandal, Dillard appeared on Fox News to defend Josh and protect the Duggars’ reality TV empire.
In her new book “Counting the Cost,” Jill Duggar Dillard shares heart-wrenching details about the aftermath of her brother Josh Duggar’s public molestation allegations.
In May 2015, InTouch Weekly obtained a 2006 police report, which is now available on Imgur, containing statements from Jim Bob Duggar, the head of the Duggar family. The report alleges that Josh molested his sisters while they slept, and sometimes while they were awake, between March 2002 and March 2003 when Josh was 14 and 15 years old. At the time, his sisters were between 5 and 11 years old.
According to the police report, Jim Bob learned about Josh’s behavior in 2002 when one of the sisters reported that Josh touched her while she slept. Instead of reporting the abuse, Jim Bob disciplined Josh and attempted to prevent further incidents. When he realized the abuse was ongoing, he took Josh to a “church elder” and sent him away to a program from March to July 2003.
Josh spoke to a police trooper upon his return, but no charges were filed. It wasn’t until December 2006, when “The Oprah Winfrey Show” contacted the Department of Human Services after learning about the accusations, that a police report was finally made.
In her book, released on Tuesday, Dillard discusses her emotional reaction to InTouch Weekly’s 2015 article about the abuse. She describes it as “tabloid journalism at its worst” and expressing a desire to be dead when the story was released.
Dillard previously addressed the immediate aftermath of the scandal in 2015
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Following the release of InTouch’s report, Dillard and her sister Jessa Duggar Seewald appeared on Megyn Kelly’s show “The Kelly File” in June 2015. In the interview, they confirmed that they were two of Josh’s victims but clarified that many of the headlines were inaccurate. They acknowledged the wrongness of Josh’s actions but emphasized that they didn’t learn about them until he confessed to their parents.
In her book and the Prime Video docuseries “Shiny Happy People,” which focuses on the victims of the Institute of Basic Life Principles (IBLP) to which the Duggars belong, Dillard reveals that she felt compelled to appear on Kelly’s show to protect her family’s reality TV career. However, she now regrets doing the interview.Follow Google News
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