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Duggar Family Friends Open Up About How Jim Bob & Michelle Hid Josh's Assault Scandal

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The new docuseries Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets has been promising an explosive tell-all approach to the legacy of the 19 Kids and Counting family.
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JIM BOB AND MICHELLE DUGGAR'S FORMER FRIENDS WERE INTERVIEWED BY FILM CREWS.
Former Duggar family friends Jim and Bobye Holt revealed: "[Josh] had apparently been doing this since he was 12 and we found out when he was 15," Jim continued, asking when the Duggars wanted to clue the rest of the Holts in on the news. Only Michelle didn't think they needed to say anything, and told Jim that she planned to have "Josh confess to Kaeleigh once they were married."
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OBVIOUSLY, THE CONCERNED FATHER WASN'T ON BOARD WITH THAT PLAN.
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The couple's daughter, Kaeleigh, had been dating Josh in 2003 when Jim Bob and Michelle made the big reveal. "So I asked [Jim Bob], 'Were you basically saying you were trying to use my daughter as a carrot to get him to behave the right way?' And he said, 'Yeah, kind of.'"
JOSH WAS SENT TO A SPECIAL CAMP.
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Amy Duggar said she remembers Josh being away right around that time. When she asked about her cousin's whereabouts, she said she was told Josh was "helping build families at a camp [because] he's a good guy like that," she said before noting that she knew "something was off."
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WE NOW KNOW THAT JOSH COMMITTED OTHER CRIMES AND WAS EVENTUALLY IMPRISONED.

It seems like this new docuseries is intent on leaving no stone unturned.
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