Joseph Duggar‘s quotes about his brother Josh Duggar are coming back to light.
If you don’t know, the 31-year-old 19 Kids & Counting star was arrested this week on child molestation charges involving a nine-year-old girl. The victim is now 14 years old, and the crime is alleged to have happened on a vacation in Florida in 2020.
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Josh was accused of sexually abusing five girls when he was a teenager, two of which were revealed to be his sisters Jill Duggar and Jessa Duggar.
In a December 2015 episode of Jill & Jessa: Counting On, Joseph commented on his brother’s situation.
“I don’t think there’s any way any of us would have known that my brother was living such a secret life,” Joseph, who was 20 years old at this time, said in the interview. “It broke my heart. Whenever somebody you respect the most is willing to get up and proclaim what we believe as Christians, about being true to your wife, you’d never think that that’s the person who’s involved in it.”
Previously, parents Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, spoke about Josh‘s sexual abuse: “Our son, Josh, came to us on his own and he was crying and he had just turned 14 and he had said he had actually improperly touched some of our daughters,” Jim Bob said. “He said he was just curious about girls…they didn’t even know he had done it.”
“First we tried to deal with this in house as parents,” Jim Bob said, “Looking back, we did the best we could under the circumstances…We tried to make things as normal as we can. We were watching his behaviors, watching his attitude.”
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