Anna Duggar Feels 'Devastated' And 'Trapped' After Josh Molestation Scandals Leaks

[snooper2]

you have to click through the pictures at this stupid site to read the clips under each one-

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Anna Duggar has been publicly supporting her husband, Josh Duggar, amid the child molestation scandal, but friends of the 19 Kids And Counting family say his pregnant wife is hiding her shame.

“From what Josh told her at the time, Anna believed that one incident took place when he was very young and he immediately regretted it and confessed his sins,” the source told Star. “She thought it was merely youthful curiosity that went too far.”

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

[JI7]

1. maybe she can move in with the unwed sister who had a kid

The one the duggars shunned for getting pregnant without being married.

[Iggo]

2. Get out while you can, woman!

[SunSeeker]

3. THIS is what finally makes her feel trapped?!

After being Josh Duggar's baby machine, spending virtually all of her adult life pregnant, I am amazed that that anything would meet that bar with her.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

4. Hiding her shame?

You mean she's hiding Josh? He's the shame here, not her. She should feel free to leave him, and to take her kids out of his reach.

[Dorian Gray]

6. Well

I think she may feel shame that she's still with him. She should.

If I were her parents I would offer her an out. She is welcome in my home with her children, none of whom will spend time alone with Josh who has a history of molestation. Then they should being their other daughter home, everyone forgive, love and honor one another.

Ummm... fantasy land.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

21. Iirc, her parents' house is probably no safer.

I believe it was her father whose defense of Josh Duggar was a statement along the lines of 'Anyone would molest young kids is they could get away with it with no consequences.'

I wouldn't take the kids anywhere near him either.

[Dorian Gray]

40. You are right

It's just such a crazy mentality. I can't fathom it.

[riderinthestorm]

5. So he lied to her before they were married. Get out Anna. Run now nt

[Dorian Gray]

7. Yes

that's grounds for an annullment. Get the hell out of there.

Maybe TLC will give you a show about making it on your own.

[bettyellen]

9. I read there's one Duggard daughter who wants to go to college and parents do not support it...

They should pay her tuition and rent her a big house - offering it as a haven for anyone who needs to escape this quiver full bullshit. That might be interesting.

[Dorian Gray]

10. I've never watched a second of the original show

and I can not even feel a sense of schaudenfraude (sp?) because of what those five girls went through. Nobody's downfall is worth their suffering.

I would love to see some of those girls married into the family or being raised by the family stand up and say "This is BULLSHIT!" And get out. Even if there was a tv series about it. Which I would actually support (in theory, probably not viewership. I am not above reality tv, but more the competitive kind... survivor or Top Chef.)

[bettyellen]

12. I watched about 15 minutes once and it was sad to see those kids raising themselves and

All the daughters handling the child rearing cooking and (bizarrely color coordinated) laundry. I'm sure they gave the sons some chores too, but those daughters were being prepped for a life of domestic servitude.
It's so alien to me that anyone could find it entertaining. Yikes.

[Brickbat]

8. WALK TOWARD THE LIGHT, ANNA!

[KamaAina]

11. She didn't feel 'devastated' when she learned her daughters had been molested?!

[Cal Carpenter]

13. I think you have the people confused -

this is the daughter-in-law - the wife of the guy who molested his sisters.

As far as I know, she and Josh only have 1 daughter and there are no accusations that he molested his own kid.

[KamaAina]

19. Can't tell the players without a scorecard.

Do they have their own ZIP code?

[Cal Carpenter]

23. I have no idea. Everything I know about the Duggars I have read on DU

Primarily in the last few weeks.

[yellowcanine]

29. That is correct, but Anna could not be faulted for wondering about her own daughter.

It could be kind of an elephant in the room, given that Josh and the Duggars apparently deceived her about the extent of the abuse. Not as if she likely feels comfortable asking Josh that question.

[Cal Carpenter]

31. I didn't mean to imply otherwise

I think I would have already bailed with the kids like a bat outta hell if I were her.

The whole thing makes me sick.

[MineralMan]

14. Different Duggar. This one's Josh's wife.

So far, we haven't heard that Josh has molested his own daughter.

[uppityperson]

15. It is understandable she feels that way, it must be awful to find out your husband

sexually abused several young girls. It must be awful to wonder if he has molested their own children or other children as an adult.

[Ilsa]

16. So she wasn't raised in preparation for seeing her

Spouse as anything but Jesus-Christ perfect? That's some serious brainwashing. Why does she think she'll be allowed to think for herself and consider leaving him?

[Initech]

17. They really have no one to blame but themselves.

[mercuryblues]

18. She's helpless

Not her daughter or any daughters she will have in the future. Run lady, run. Protect your children from a man who sexually assaulted his sisters and a family friend, then lied to everyone about it, even you.

[Coventina]

20. I feel for her. That lifestyle infantilizes women and trains them to be helpless.

It's hard to break free from that, but hopefully enough people who truly care about her will help her escape this life and its programming. (double meaning there)

[Arugula Latte]

22. The infantilizing is unnerving. The way Michelle Duggar speaks in that high sing song voice

just freaks me out.

[arcane1]

28. It's infantilizing the men too, making them blameless beings who can't help themselves.

And it's damn creepy!

[RobinA]

24. I Feel For

everyone in this mess except Michelle and whatever the Dad's name is. Including Josh. At the very least the parents should have pulled the plug on the TV show when they first found out about this. They've been sitting on a timebomb that kept getting bigger through the years and was pretty much guaranteed to blow up in their children's faces. They've now exposed all their children to public scrutiny and ridicule, particularly the girls involved. I have no idea what's up with the perpetrator, but whatever his problem is it should have been dealt with privately. He was a juvenile when this happened, but now he's got a family who gets to suffer as well.

[Phentex]

27. I agree. I feel bad for Anna...

but you are right about the parents being the ones to not handle this properly.

[yellowcanine]

30. Daddy Duggar goes by "Jim Bob," which is a bit creepy by itself for a grown man.

Just sayin'

[SoCalDem]

36. They knew BEFORE the show started..

They thought their christian values would protect them from the deserved slings & arrow..


now THEY are the aggrieved ones..and their "poor son" ..

I hope they have been banking some of that 40k a WEEK they have scammed..

This type of show really annoys me.. Those kids are not old enough to give consent to have their lives chronicles for infinity..

Children deserve privacy & security & safety so they can grow up at their own pace. They are not trinkets & toys to be paraded in front of anyone with a voyeuristic mentality..

[TwilightGardener]

25. Who wants to have a child with a repeat-offending molester? One who went after his own sisters?

Yes, I feel bad for her. "For better or worse" doesn't apply here.

[Skittles]

34. this will be, what, baby number 5?

and they are still in their 20's?

[SoCalDem]

37. their 4th.. and hopefully for her.. their last

That young woman needs an intervention..

[Skittles]

39. oh dear

I was just realizing my dad had five kids when he was in his 20's although he did stop at six

[get the red out]

26. Her family would have to disown her, wouldn't they?

She can't leave the man who owns her, and none of this cult seems to give one shit about the welfare of girls and women.

[Kalidurga]

32. Of course she feels trapped.

That is the way her culture set things up. Not just to trap women though they are easiest to identify as victims. But, they trap the men too with unrealistic expectations of living debt free (on one income), always being the protector (not really considering what they actually do), keeping a stiff upper lip, and having to live in a hyper masculine culture which is toxic.

[Skittles]

33. oh please

she was fine with it as a money machine

[Blue_In_AK]

35. I was thinking that the Duggar household

(senior Duggars) had to be hypersexualized, what with JimBob impregnating Michelle every year. They must have been fucking like rabbits, and surely the kids must have been aware since there were so darn many of them.

[betterdemsonly]

38. No one in that family could make a living as dogmatic quiverfulls without tlc

and the family research council supporting them.

[DawgHouse]

41. She's not "utterly helpless".

Give me a break. It may not be easy, but she does have a choice.