PHOTOS19 Kids And Counting’s Jessa Duggar Lied About The Josh Molestation Timeline During Interview
The Duggar family of 19 Kids And Counting may be all about telling the truth nowadays, but Jessa Duggar Seewald may have stretched it a little bit during her Fox News interview.
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Jessa called the Josh Duggar molestation incidents, which happened in 2002 and 2003, “stupid mistakes” that happened long before the family’s show aired. But it turns out, new evidence shows it happened just as cameras started rolling.
“Whenever we started the TV show, the reality show it was five years after all of this,” Jessa said on The Kelly File. “We had dealt with it as a family. We had moved on.”
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But according to Josh and Anna Duggar’s website, though, the family began filming their reality show with Discovery called 14 Children and Pregnant Again that same year Josh admitted the whole thing to his parents, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Duggar family pictured in 2007
“In 2003, the Duggar family was contacted by producers to film their first show with the Discovery Health Channel called, 14 Children and Pregnant Again! After its premiere, the show went on to become the top rated show for the network,” their website claims.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Duggar family pictured in 2007
The documentary show first aired in 2004, according to the site, which proves Jessa’s claims were far from the truth because the spotlight was already shining on the family during the immediate aftermath.
EXCLUSIVE: The Duggar family pictured in 2007
According to the family and police documents, Josh attended “counseling” and “rehab” in Little Rock, Arkansas from March 2003 to July 2003 after molesting five young women in the Duggar family home, which means he may have just returned during the filming.
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