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  • Michelle Duggar Has A Hard Time Coping With Cancellation Of ’19 Kids And Counting’

    Michelle Duggar is hitting hard times after their show, 19 Kids and Counting got canceled by TLC.

    According to a report by InTouch, Michelle has been experiencing exhaustion from all the negative reports plus the cancellation of their show that resulted from the sexual molestation scandal that made the rounds on the internet just a few months ago.

    Michelle expressed her thoughts on the family’s website. She wrote, “Feelings of being overwhelmed flooded my mind. I cried aloud, ‘LORD I NEED YOUR HELP, I can’t do it all! I feel so inadequate!’ Diapers, dishes, laundry, meals, clean up, school lessons, baths, hugs, kisses, correction…My list seemed to go on and on.”

    Facing hardship, Michelle believes that God is not abandoning her. She leans on her faith even more. In her post, she recalled a scripture that encouraged her to praise God and rejoice even in difficult times. After that, she said she went to bed feeling like the weight was lifted off her chest.

    In May, police records showed that Michelle Duggar’s eldest son, Josh Duggar, fondled five minors, including his two young sisters, when he was a teenager. Soon after the molestation scandal made headlines, the Duggar family lost their TV show sponsors and eventually their income. However, the 48-year-old matriarch believes all hope is not lost. Duggar’s children are also helping to make ends meet. Some of the members of the Duggar family made appeals for donations while Ben Seewald and Jessa Duggar are overseas working on documentaries that show their life as missionaries.

    Michelle is thankful for the people who are helping them right now, believing God has sent them angels to help them get back up. She said even her children’s piano teacher offered to help her do the laundry.

  • ’19 Kids And Counting’: Josh Duggar Being Sued By Woman For Sexual Molestation

    Have you spent a part of your life gawking at the 19 Kids and Counting family and thinking how wholesome and inspirational they are?

    Well, Josh Duggar, one of the kids in the TLC reality show, made headlines for sexually molesting his younger sisters Jill and Jessa when he was 14. Now, he is being sued by woman (not a family member) that he allegedly molested as well.

    According to reports, Jill and Jessa Duggar were molested by Josh at least seven times between the years 2002 and 2003. Parents Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar knew about his actions but said they chose to deal with it privately as a family.

    What makes it surprising is that Josh is now 27 and the police didn’t find out about the molestation nor was he charged until recently. However, the statute of limitations has since ran out. This means the Duggar family of 19 Kids and Counting are not allowed to invoke their Fifth Amendment rights anymore. In short, they are now unable to refuse answering questions that are thrown at them.

    The Duggar family will have to reveal what they know, when they knew it, what they did about it, and why it took them this long to come forward.

    According to Arkansas Code Annotated Section 16-56-1300, civil action is allowed when a sexual abuse victim starts to feel the effects of their trauma years later.

    This is apparently the reason Josh’s alleged victim is filing a case against him now. She reportedly became upset when she saw the 19 Kids and Counting family on television trying to defend Josh’s misdeeds.

    The victim wanted to hold Josh accountable for what he did. According to In Touch Weekly, she also has the ability to sue Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar for the cover-up.

  • Anna Duggar Reportedly Devastated About The Scandal, Considers Leaving Josh

    All eyes have been on Josh Duggar and his parents, Jim Bob and Michelle, ever since news that he molested several young girls broke out.

    But amid all the condemnations and finger pointing, people have forgotten some of the key players in Josh Duggar’s story – his alleged victims Jill and Jessa, and his wife Anna.

    Reports say that despite the humiliation of being under public scrutiny over allegations that they might be among Josh’s victims, the two Duggar girls are “glad that people finally know the truth.”

    An insider told OK! Magazine that contrary to what their parents said about the family having worked through this “dark and difficult time” Jim Bob and Michelle actually told the girls that “it was their Christian duty to forgive Josh.”

    The source further disclosed that the girls were made to feel that it was their fault the molestation happened and they received no support from their parents.

    Josh’s wife Anna is almost in the same boat.

    The young mother, who’s also heavily pregnant with her fourth child, had previously stated her support for Josh.

    She talked about her courtship with Josh in a previous interview and mentioned that her husband admitted his “mistakes” to her and her parents before they were even married.

    She described how shocked and surprised she was with his admission and didn’t understand why he was doing it.

    “For Josh, he wanted not just me but my parents to know who he really was – even very difficult past mistakes,” Anna explained.

    But now a source close to Anna says that she’s devastated and furious about the scandal and feels that she’s receiving no support. Reports have also surfaced that the 26-year-old home maker is considering divorce and leaving the 19 Kids and Counting family behind.

    “She feels trapped. If she leaves Josh to stay with her parents for a while, people will say she’s abandoned him,” the source explains. “She is stuck in the Duggar PR machine and feels completely alone.”