Jill Duggar Reveals She Was ‘Prepared To Testify’ Against Brother Josh Duggar In 2021 Trial

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Jill Duggar was acceptable to instrumentality the basal against her older brother, Josh Duggar, during his 2021 kid pornography trial, she revealed successful Amazon’s caller docuseries, Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets. “I was prepared to attest against my brother,” the Counting On star, 32, candidly told cameras. “I conjecture they got what they needed from idiosyncratic else.” Jill was contiguous for Josh’s full 2021 proceedings and for the time he was recovered guilty connected 2 charges of knowingly receiving and possessing kid pornography images. Josh began his 12-year situation condemnation successful June 2022.

As fans volition recall, Josh’s pornography proceedings was his 2nd headline-making ungraded successful respective years. In 2015, quality broke that helium had been accused of molesting 5 underage girls erstwhile helium was a teen, with 4 of them being his sisters, including Jill. The 19 Kids and Counting alum concisely spoke astir the heartbreaking clip successful her beingness successful Shiny Happy People and hesitantly admitted that nary 1 was ever expected to cognize that the eldest lad of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar had inappropriately touched her. “We privation cipher had ever recovered retired astir immoderate of that,” her husband, Derick Dillard, said arsenic Jill struggled to find words.

Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard successful Amazon’s ‘Shiny Happy People’ (Photo: Amazon Prime)

“There were definite things that, like, she shared with maine successful assurance due to the fact that we were a joined mates that successful each of our hopes would stay assured betwixt america until we some died,” helium added. Jill past broke down into tears and reiterated the information that she doesn’t privation to speech astir the situation. “The infinitesimal that the reports, everything, was released, that was the infinitesimal it was public,” she confirmed.

Later successful the docuseries, however, the mother of three said she was guilted into sitting down with Megyn Kelly successful 2015 to support Josh with her sister, Jessa. During the interview, they confirmed Josh molested them, but stated they didn’t deliberation it was close to picture him arsenic a “child molester, pedophile, oregon rapist.”

“There was an urgency successful trying to fig retired however the amusement was going to beryllium handled successful the aftermath of the 2015 events,” Jill explained successful Shiny Happy People with her supportive husband by her side. “As acold arsenic betterment and harm control, you conscionable consciousness similar a load and the value falls connected you to help.” She confessed that the interrogation is not 1 of her proudest moments.

Derick added his ain penetration into the ordeal, boldly calling Jill and Jessa’s televised interrogation a “suicide mission.” He added, “Like, ‘You’re gonna destruct yourself, but we request you to instrumentality the autumn truthful we tin transportation the amusement guardant due to the fact that the amusement cannot fail.’ [The Duggars] were gonna bash immoderate they could to get the instrumentality connected their investment. If that meant collateral damage, that meant collateral damage.”

Josh Duggar smiles successful his mugshot aft being arrested for his suspected usage of kid porn (Photo: Arkansas Jail/ MEGA)

Jill and Derick were the archetypal of Josh’s contiguous household to speak out pursuing his May 2022 sentencing. “Yesterday we learned that Josh was fixed a 151 period condemnation successful national prison for his transgression of CSAM. The past respective weeks and months person been hard emotionally. Yesterday was different 1 of those hard days,” they began successful an authoritative connection shared connected their website. “We are neither rejoicing nor disappointed by the sentence, but we are thankful it’s yet over.”

They adjacent confirmed their enactment of the result of the father of seven‘s proceedings and sentencing. “The Bible intelligibly states that God effects justness and vengeance done the governing authorities. Though immoderate judge Josh should person received a greater condemnation and inactive less judge helium should person received a lighter sentence, God has carried retired his vengeance contiguous for his unspeakable transgression activity,” they wrote.

“Until now,” Jill and Derick continued, “he has yet to beryllium held accountable to the grade indispensable to origin alteration successful his unsafe signifier of behavior. It is unfortunate, but it seems that it whitethorn instrumentality spending implicit a decennary successful national prison, and inactive much connected probation, for Josh to person immoderate imaginable for rehabilitation to the constituent helium tin safely unrecorded successful nine again.”

The mates concluded, “Hopefully, Josh tin really statesman to get attraction and statesman to enactment toward a manner wherever helium is little apt to reoffend. If for thing else, the notoriety of this lawsuit has hopefully contributed to the deterrence of imaginable offenders and volition assistance support children by decreasing the request for CSAM. We proceed to emotion Josh and his household and volition beryllium determination for them nevertheless we can.”

Fans tin larn much about the Duggar family and their spiritual organization, The Institute successful Basic Life Principles, erstwhile each 4 episodes of Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets driblet connected Prime Video connected Friday, June 2.

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