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Jim Bob Duggar Repeatedly Minimizes The Sexual Molestation Of His Own Daughters

CREDIT: SCREENSHOT/FOX NEWS
CREDIT: SCREENSHOT/FOX NEWS

Breaking his silence on Fox News, Jim Bob Duggar repeatedly minimized the actions of his son Josh, who sexually molested several of the Duggar daughters.

“He had gone in and just basically touched them over their clothes while they were sleeping. They didn’t even know he had done it,” Jim Bob said. Later Jim Bob admitted there “were a couple incidents where he touched them under their clothes, but it was like a few seconds.”

He emphasized that “this was not rape or anything like that.” Watch:

Throughout the interview, Jim Bob returned to these themes. He emphasized again and again that some of the instances occured while his daughters were sleeping and the molestation occured over their clothes. (At the same time he acknowledged that, in other cases, his daughters were awake and groped underneath their clothes.)

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Jim Bob also attempted to characterize Josh’s behavior as commonplace. “We talked to other parents and different ones since then, a lot of families have said that they’ve had similar things happen in their families,” he said.

“He was still a kid, you know, and he was still a juvenile. He wasn’t an adult,” Jim Bob explained.

He also sought to deflect blame from himself. Jim Bob told Megyn Kelly that “kids will make their own choices.”