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While disgraced TV personality Josh Duggar, 35, is presently serving a 12-year situation sentence for a child pornography conviction, his cousin Amy Duggar, 36, spoke retired astir the substance during a caller interrogation with Vanity Fair on Jun. 28. During the candid conversation, the niece of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar revealed that she was “pissed” astatine her household for not speaking to her astir the molestation accusations against Josh anterior to the satellite uncovering retired first.
Amy Duggar said she confronted Josh Duggar pursuing the molestation accusations brought against him. (David Acosta/Image Press Agency/Splash News / SplashNews)
“I was pissed,” Amy told the outlet. “I felt similar I wasn’t worthy telling … that they didn’t privation to support me. They didn’t privation anyone to know, [and] they wanted to support it wrong their small bubble. Secrets breed successful the IBLP [The Institute successful Basic Life Principles]. Things are hidden.” More so, the 36-year-old revealed that erstwhile the quality broke regarding the allegations that Josh had molested 4 of his sisters, she recovered retired “like the remainder of the world.”
At the clip that the molestation accusations became nationalist successful 2015, Amy said that she confronted Josh face-to-face. “He was staying successful a trailer and I went successful determination and I said, ‘How could you bash this? … And I was precise bold astir that,” she explained to the outlet connected Wednesday. She besides claimed that her relative did not effort to get “physically” progressive with her due to the fact that “he knew better.” The outlet besides reported that Amy believes that Josh chose to “prey upon girls who wouldn’t talk retired against him.” She besides attributed the IBLP “ideology” to “absolutely” empowering his actions.
Josh Duggar is presently serving a 12.5 twelvemonth situation condemnation for a kid porn conviction. (Patsy Lynch/Shutterstock)
Amy made definite to explicit her thoughts connected however the IBLP instauration values the eldest son successful a household unit. “The IBLP prizes the archetypal child, [and] it doesn’t get overmuch amended than if it’s a son. They clasp the household sanction and the household value,” Amy shared. “If you’re valued from the infinitesimal you’ve been calved and radical fell your secrets and screen up things, and you ne'er get successful occupation for the things that you’re doing, I judge you conscionable go numb to however the satellite truly is, and however the instrumentality truly is. It’s truthful bittersweet however acold it was taken, wherever helium thought helium could get distant with anything.” The father-of-seven is notably the eldest kid of Jim Bob and Michelle.
Josh’s relative made it wide that she thinks her aunt and uncle’s actions of covering up their son’s actions is “cringe-worthy” and “evil.” Amy aboriginal called their ideology a “disgusting” one. “To deliberation that idiosyncratic holds a higher worth than idiosyncratic other is conscionable truthful disgusting,” she said. In fact, the erstwhile 19 Kids and Counting star claimed that her cousin’s caller ungraded was her “last straw” with her household and the IBLP. “My past straw was the past ungraded with Josh. I can’t ideate protecting a predator,” she said. “I deliberation that is the lowest of low, [and] there’s nary going back.”
Amy appears successful the caller documentary, Shiny Happy People, which takes a person look astatine the scandals involving the Duggar family. The arrogant parent besides explained that she has chopped ties with her aunt, uncle, and cousins. “I looked astir and my ma and I were similar ‘Who is speaking out? Who is saying however incorrect this is?’ And really, determination weren’t galore who were,” she said toward the extremity of the interview. “It was conscionable like, ‘Do we adjacent our eyes and enactment similar it’s not happening?’ Or bash we say, ‘It’s happening and here’s the atomic bomb,’ and fto the pieces autumn wherever they may?”
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