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Amy (Duggar) Kingwill stop at nothing to protect her3-year-old son Daxton— even if it means speaking out against her uncleJim Bob Duggar.
“It all kind of boils down to this, right?” King, 36, said in the video. “If you’re not going to protect those beautiful daughters from a predator that was living inside of your home and you knew about it, and you’re gonna sweep it under the rug and your mentality is kinda just to brush it off and to hide it and to lie, not only do I not respect you anymore, but I also don’t want to give you a right to get to know my child. Because I will protect my child at all costs.”
“Forget all the other stuff, just focus on the fact that the abuse was hidden,” King continued. “And then [Jim Bob] was put on the stand and then he said, ‘Oh, judge I don’t recall.’ You don’t recall your daughters’ abuse? You don’t recall that?"
“Then for me, I have to protect my son from you. ‘Cause something’s not right here. A lot of screws are loose,” she added.
A rep for Jim Bob did not return PEOPLE’s request for comment.
When Jim Bob, 57,testified during Josh’s 2021 trial,he repeatedly said he couldn’t remember the details of Josh’s admissions that he had touched the victims, identified during the proceeding as Jane Does 1 through 4.
Jim Bob did, however, recount how his oldest son came to him and his wifeMichellein 2002 about “inappropriate touching” of a minor, but the19 Kids and Countingpatriarch claimed he did not remember Josh’s exact wording.
“We were shocked this had happened but we were thankful he came on his own and told us,” Jim Bob said, later adding, “He had told me that he had touched some of the girls when they were sleeping on their breasts … they didn’t wake up.”
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King’s video comes less than a week after Prime Video’s release ofShiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets, which digs into the Duggar family’s troubling ties to radical religious organization the Institute in Basic Life Principles. King and her husbandDillon Kingappear in the docuseries, as do Jill and her husbandDerick Dillardand Jim Bob’s sister Deanna Jordan.
Jim Bob and Michelle, 56, recently referred to the docuseries as “derogatory and sensationalized” in a statement issued viatheir official website.
“The recent ‘documentary’ that talks about our family is sad because in it we see the media and those with ill intentions hurting people we love. Like other families, ours too has experienced the joys and heartbreaks of life, just in a very public format,” the couple said. “This ‘documentary’ paints so much and so many in a derogatory and sensationalized way because sadly that’s the direction of entertainment these days.”
Ahead ofShiny Happy People’s release, Jill, 32, announcedplans to put out a memoir in 2024exploring the “red flags” she started to notice about herconservative independent Christian Baptist upbringingafter marrying Derick, 34.
In a jointInstagram post, the couple, who tied the knot in 2014, wrote: “Though we would have never chosen this path, and it has cost us dearly, we want to use our voice to show others that there is hope beyond the pain.”
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Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secretsis now streaming in full on Prime Video.
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source: people.com
