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Jim Bob Duggar urged his boy Joseph Duggar to “make lemonade retired of lemons” aft his arrest connected kid molestation charges successful Arkansas past month.
The Duggar family patriarch, 60, scolded his embattled boy via email arsenic Joseph sat down bars astatine nan Washington County Jail successful Arkansas while waiting extradition to Bay County, Florida.
“Mom & I emotion you very much,” Jim Bob began nan correspondence, according to emails obtained by People connected Thursday. “[But] you person a agelong roadworthy up of you.”
After telling nan 31-year-old that he “made immoderate unspeakable decisions,” Jim Bob reminded his boy that “God has already forgiven you if you person asked him.”
He continued, “You are conscionable going to person to judge nan business astatine this point, and it’s besides good to believe that God would person mercy connected you, but you’re astir apt gonna look awesome consequences for respective years to come.”
The “19 Kids and Counting” alum – who shares Joseph and 18 further children pinch his 59-year-old wife, Michelle Duggar – went connected to show his imprisoned boy to “make lemonade retired of lemons” and “point group to Christ moreover done nan clip you’re successful jailhouse and prison.”
“We’ll support praying for you,” Jim Bob concluded nan email aft noting really “David successful the Bible royally messed up” but “repented and became a man aft God’s ain heart.”
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The Duggar family did not instantly respond to Page Six’s petition for comment.
Arkansas authorities arrested Joseph connected March 18 successful relationship pinch allegations that he molested a 9-year-old woman during a family vacation to Panama City Beach, Florida, successful 2020.
The erstwhile TLC prima was charged pinch lewd and lascivious behaviour involving molestation of a unfortunate little than 12 years aged and lewd and lascivious behaviour conducted by a personification 18 years aliases older.
He was past extradited to Florida’s Bay County Jail connected Tuesday greeting earlier making his first tribunal quality later that day.
Jim Bob was pinch Joseph successful Bay County erstwhile he was formally arraigned and pleaded not blameworthy to nan molestation charges, arsenic good arsenic erstwhile nan erstwhile reality prima was released connected a $600,000 bond and flown backmost location to Arkansas.
But Jim Bob wasn’t nan only Duggar family personnel keeping successful interaction pinch Joseph during his jailhouse stay, because nan second besides corresponded pinch his sister-in-law, Anna Duggar, and his wife, Kendra Duggar.
In 1 alleged email obtained by nan Daily Mail, Joseph reportedly apologized for “dragging nan family sanction done nan mud erstwhile again.”
Josh Duggar, different of Jim Bob and Michelle’s galore children, is currently serving a 12-year situation sentence for possessing and receiving kid intersexual maltreatment material.
Kendra reportedly told her embattled hubby that nan family was “disappointed” successful him after his kid molestation arrest.
“Just cognize that everybody loves you, moreover if they’re disappointed,” she said successful nan call obtained by TMZ connected Tuesday.
Meanwhile, some Joseph and Kendra were charged pinch 4 second-degree counts of endangering nan use of a insignificant and 4 second-degree counts of mendacious imprisonment successful a abstracted lawsuit successful Arkansas connected March 20.
If you aliases personification you cognize is affected by immoderate of nan issues raised successful this story, telephone nan Sexual Assault Hotline astatine 1-800-330-0226.
