Fox News has finally aired Megyn Kelly’s interview with Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, and it’s probably leaving more questions than answers.
The Duggars admitted that Josh has molested their daughters, but described it as “nothing like rape, “only “inappropriate touching” over their clothes.
“Here we’ve tried to raise our kids to do what’s right, to know what’s right, and yet one of our children made some really bad choices and I think, as a parent, we were just — we were devastated,” Michelle said talkin about the time Josh initially came to them and “shared” what he had done.
According to Jim Bob, Josh had come to them a total of three times, each to confess to what he’d done on three separate occasions.
Another part of the interview features Josh’s sisters. Appearing with their parents, they were still defending their brother.
“I do want to speak up in his defense against people who are calling him a child molester or a pedophile or a rapist, some people are saying,” Jessa Duggar told Kelly. “I’m like, ‘That is so overboard and a lie really.’ I mean people get mad at me for saying that, but I can say this because I was one of the victims.”
Watch the full interview below:
After the interview aired, Twitter erupted:
Mainly this Duggar interview is just sad, because the parents are so stunningly ignorant about child sexual abuse. Even now.
— Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) June 4, 2015
In FoxNews interview Duggar parents say some of Josh’s victims were awake. Yet victims didn’t know they were molested? Huh? — Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) June 4, 2015
Weirdest Duggar “safeguard” revealed in tonight’s intv: “no male babysitters.” HELLO. The threat was coming from your own family.
— Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) June 4, 2015
So Jim Bob was cool with being a HYPOCRITE because he tonight he couldn’t get caught because evidence was sealed? #DuggarInterview — Montel Williams (@Montel_Williams) June 4, 2015
Every time Michelle Duggar interrupts Jim Bob, I worry about her a little.
— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) June 4, 2015
#DuggarFamily should just go ahead and hire Fox News as their PR company. #duggarinterview — Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) June 4, 2015
Reading the liveblog of the Duggar Interview like pic.twitter.com/wgacggIxnl
— Erin Keane (@eekshecried) June 4, 2015
Jim Bob Duggar’s “they were asleep” defense is pretty fucking close to defending the rape of someone who was asleep. — Will McAvoy (@WillMcAvoyACN) June 4, 2015
1. What I’d like to see is some soul-searching about this horrible Duggar abuse from fundamentalist Christians and the Quiverful movement.
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) June 4, 2015
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