How Long Did TLC Know About Sex Abuse in Reality TV’s Biggest Family?

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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…