UNITED STATES
San Jose Mercury News
[with video]
Compiled by Martha Ross
A 15-year-old Josh Duggar confessed to molesting his 5-year-old sister while he held her on his lap and read her stories, according to a newly released police report obtained by In Touch Weekly.
The 2006 report also provides other new details about how his reality TV star parents, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar of TLC’s “19 and Counting,” failed to alert authorities for more than a year that their oldest son had inappropriately touched his sisters and a family friend, said the New York Daily News.
The new information comes the same day that Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar will address the allegations in a pre-taped interview with Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly, airing 6 p.m. tonight.
“We will sit down with Megyn Kelly on Fox to share our hearts with you about the pain that we walked through as a family 12 years ago, the tears we all shed and the forgiveness that was given,” the Duggars posted on their website.
Kelly said the interview is the Duggars’ attempt to save their show, according to Deadline Hollywood. TLC pulled repeats of the show from its lineup as 20 of its sponsors lined up to say they would not advertise on the program.
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