UNITED STATES
The Daily Beast
Emily Shire
‘19 Kids and Counting’ star Josh Duggar resigned Thursday from the Family Research Council for acting ‘inexcusably’ as a teenager. Reports allege he molested younger girls—and the family knew.
“Twelve years ago, as a young teenager, I acted inexcusably,” Josh Duggar stated Thursday night in his formal resignation from the conservative Christian Family Research Council. “Inexcusably” is, perhaps, one of the greatest understatements when it’s made in reference to the allegation that you molested five girls—including allegations, as TMZ reports, from some of your sisters.
In the last day, a stream of increasingly upsetting details have been revealed about the eldest Duggar child in the popular TLC reality series, 19 Kids and Counting.
In Touch uncovered a police report that was filed regarding Duggar in 2006, in which he was accused of molesting multiple female minors in 2002 and 2003 when he himself was 14-15 years old.
The report, filed in December 2006 by the Springdale Police Department in Arkansas, reveals disturbing details about the allegations against Duggar. James (better known to TLC fans as Jim Bob) Duggar told police that in March 2002, he was tipped off by an alleged victim that Josh had been “sneaking into” a room at night and “had been touching… the breasts and vaginal areas.”
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