Amy Duggar confronted Josh about allegations of molestation and was furious that the family didn’t tell her
Amy Duggar King, cousin of disgraced former reality star Josh Duggar – who is serving a 12-year sentence for child pornography – says he told her he “knew better” than victimizing her than she confronted him.
Amy Duggar King couldn’t believe that Jim Bob And Michelle protected her eldest son josh To the point that they didn’t even tell her about the molestation allegations. She found out before the world knew… and almost immediately confronted her cousin about it.
“I was p—ed,” said the former 19 Kids and Counting star Vanity Fair in a new interview. “I felt like I wasn’t worth telling… that they didn’t want to protect me.” Josh has been accused of molesting four of his sisters. The allegations became public in 2015 when Amy found out about them.
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One of the reasons she believes the family — which mostly refers to parents Jim Bob and Michelle — was protective of Josh is what she put it, “the IBLP.” [Institute in Basic Life Principles] rewards the first child.”
“Besides,” she said, “it doesn’t get much better than if it were a son.” They preserve the family name and family value.”
The Institute in Basic Life Principles is the controversial fundamentalist Christian organization of which Jim Bob and Michelle are affiliated. According to recent reports, they have even risen to the top of the management echelon.
Amy argues that Josh’s position in the family afforded him a degree of protection that she says had a dramatic impact on him. “When you’re born valued and people hide your secrets and cover things up,” she said, “and you never get in trouble because of the things you do, I think you just go numb like them.” world is real and how the law is real.
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“It’s so sad how far it was taken and he thought he could get away with it all,” she said. “They didn’t want anyone to know, they wanted to keep it in their little bubble. Secrets thrive in the IBLP. things are hidden.”
At the time, Josh released a statement acknowledging the wrongdoing and apologizing, but he has not been criminally charged. Instead, his parents sent him to a faith counseling camp.
As soon as she found out, Amy said she went straight out and confronted Josh directly. He “was staying in a trailer and I walked in and I was like, ‘How could you do that?'” she recalls. “I was very brave there.”
She said Josh told her he didn’t try anything with her because he “knew better.” Instead, she believes he knew exactly what he was doing and instead chose to target girls who didn’t speak up.
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Her outrage didn’t stop with Josh, however, as she believes Jim Bob and Michelle covered for him, which she described as “terrifying” and “nasty.”
“To think someone is worth more than someone else is just abhorrent,” she told the outlet. This latest scandal with Josh was the one that destroyed her connection with her family. “My final straw was the recent scandal with Josh. I can’t imagine protecting a predator,” she said. “I think this is the deepest of the deep, [and] there is no turning back.”
Amy was among the family members who took part in the four-part Amazon Prime docuseries Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets. Jim Bob and Michelle immediately denounced this on their website, calling it “degrading and sensationalist.”
Amy countered by telling the couple to “stop playing the victim.” tick tock posted on june 1st, pro InTouch weekly.
“Brief Message: If you had given Josh the real, real help he needed a long time ago, real therapy, we wouldn’t be in this mess,” she said. “These beautiful girls wouldn’t have so much to heal. You are not a victim here.”