It’s been over a year since Josh Duggar was convicted on charges of receiving and possessing child sexual abuse material.
And clearly, Josh’s parents are still trying to make sense of the scandal and what role he may have played.
Insiders have alleged that Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar helped to create a culture of abuse that enabled the eldest son to escape a string of atrocities over the course of several years.
And now, it seems that the couple has been torn apart by the question of one of them bear the most blame for Josh’s depravity.
At first, Jim Bob and Michelle were adamant that Josh was wrongly convicted and would be acquitted on appeal.
But it seems that they have recently come to accept the possibility of being guilty of the terrible crime that has been convicted.
And according to a new report from YouTuber Katie Joy, Jim Bob and Michelle have known for a long time that they are raising monsters.
“In 2006, Michelle told her friends why Josh was the way he was because he was eight years old. [sic] he found a box of men’s magazines,” Joy said on her channel this week.
“And so he did what he did. Well, Michelle’s story didn’t match Jim Bob’s story. So, when Jim Bob started talking to his friends, this friend told him that he actually blamed Michelle,” she said.
“She told a lot of people at church that Michelle was promiscuous in high school and because she was promiscuous in high school, and because she sometimes likes herself, Josh inherited her tendencies.”
Such madness should come as no surprise.
The Duggars famously believe that female promiscuity is the root of all evil, so of course Jim Bob will find a way to blame his son’s sexual crimes on the fact that his wife went on some dates in high school.
“He said that Michelle’s sins and problems with promiscuity before marriage and pleasuring herself in her teenage years are the reason why Josh did what he did to his sister,” Joy continued.
“He also said that he became like his father or inherited from his father, but he did not define what his father did,” he continued.
“Jim Bob usually points to other people.”
So, to summarize, Jim Bob believes that sexual depravity is a genetically inherited trait, and Josh is a child molester because his mother often masturbates.
If anything, ol’ JB makes a strong case for himself as the parent most responsible for destroying Josh’s brain.
At the end of the day, of course, Josh is responsible for his own horrible misdeed.
But being raised by a father who has a backwards view of sex and gender relations certainly doesn’t help psychological development.