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Show featuring anti-LGBTI Duggar family officially canceled because of molestation scandal
It’s official: 19 Kids and Counting has been canceled by the TLC network.
The network said in a statement Thursday that the show will not return to the air. It was yanked in May after one of the 19 admitted to sexually abusing five young girls, including some of his sisters, when he was a teenager.
Josh Duggar is former executive director of the lobbying arm of the anti-gay Family Research Council. He is at the center of the scandal that also led to his resigning from his job at FRC which advocates and lobbies for socially conservative policies and opposes and lobbies against LGBTI rights such as same-sex marriage and adoption.
Duggar, 27, is one of the 19 children of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar and a married father of three himself. He has admitted to episodes of sexual abuse when he was a teenager for which he is ‘extremely sorry and deeply regret.’
‘The recent attention around the Duggars has sparked a critical and important conversation about child protection,’ the network stated.
TLC said it has consulted with victims’ rights and advocacy organizations RAINN and Darkness to Light with whom they are partnering with along with the Duggar family on a one-hour documentary that will include Josh Duggar’s sisters Jill and Jessa and other survivors and families that have been affected by abuse.
The documentary will air later this summer.
The parents have been accused of hypocrisy after previously comparing transgender people to child molesters while covering up their son Josh’s abuse.
Michelle Duggar has also defended the robocall she recorded against Fayetteville’s anti-discrimination ordinance, which she claimed would let ‘males with past child predator convictions that claim they are female’ into women’s restrooms.
When asked how she could make the comparison knowing what she did about her son, she replied: ‘I think that protecting young girls and not allowing young men and men in general to go into a girls’ locker room is just common sense.’
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