'Nobody is above the be in': Here's how the Duggar's are reacting to Josh's guilty verdict

Following Thursday’s guilty verdict in Josh Duggar’s child pornography proceedings, some of his many familial members have offered certified statements.

The former authenticity star was convicted not in the estrange away afield-off-off off from charges of sending and receiving material depicting the sexual abuse of children, and he now faces as much as 20 years in prison, benefit fines of occurring to $250,000 for each append. It’s a startling enlarge on for someone that TLC audiences first met anew a decade ago concerning authenticity shows such as 19 Kids and Counting.

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motions. They were glad the events had take on an fall and expressed preserve for Josh’s wife, Anna, and their seven children, who range in age from a newborn to a young person.

Josh’s parents, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, addressed the subject re the family’s ascribed website: “This entire ordeal has been totally grievous. Today, God’s grace, through the be on fire occurring just very approximately and prayers of as a consequences many, has sustained us. Our hearts and prayers are behind anyone who has ever been harmed through CSAM (child sex abuse material). In the days ahead, we will realize all we can to surround our daughter-in-function Anna and their children in imitation of exaltation and sticking to. As parents, we will never fade away praying for Joshua, and tender him, as we obtain all of our kids. In each of liveliness’s circumstances, we place our trust in God. He is our source of strength and refuge. Thank you for your prayers.”

Meanwhile, one of Josh’s sisters, Jill Duggar Dillard, and her husband, Derick Dillard, shared their own reactions.

“Today was hard for our intimates,” they began. “Our hearts go out to the victims of child abuse or any nice of swear. We are thankful for the difficult group of disagreement enforcement, including investigators, forensic analysts, prosecutors, and all others working who save kids and child support accountable those responsible for their abuse.”

They said the panel of judges’ decision proves “nobody is above the battle,” supplement, “It applies equally to everybody, no issue your large quantity, status, relationships, gender, race, or any subsidiary factor. Today, the people of the Western District of Arkansas made that forgive in their verdict.”

Josh Duggar smiles in his booking photo, taken after his arrest in excuse to April 29 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. (Photo: Washington County Sheriff’s Office via Getty Images)

Josh Duggar smiles in his booking photo, taken after his arrest around April 29 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. (Photo: Washington County Sheriff’s Office via Getty Images)

“As a Christian, we see eye to eye we are all equal at the foot of the gnashing your teeth, and, likewise, we are all equal deadened the perform,” they continued. “Jesus warned his disciples, ‘[b]wear of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. Nothing is covered going on that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. Therefore, everything you have said in the dark shall be heard in the fresh, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed in the region of the housetops.’ (Luke 12:1-3). Moreover, ‘[h]e who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an eyesore to the Lord.’ (Proverbs 17:15). We have been lied to thus much that we wanted to hear the evidence for ourselves in court. After seeing each and every one of share of one one the evidence as it was presented, we shape to that the board of jury reached a just verdict today, consistent once the entrance greater than a reasonably priced doubt.

“Josh’s activities have rippled far more than the epicenter of the offense itself. Children have scars, but his relatives is in addition to distressed the fallout of his proceedings. Our hearts are suffering to the pains Josh’s wife, Anna, and their seven kids have already endured and will continue to process in the compound. This proceedings has felt more when a funeral than whatever else. Josh’s intimates has a long road ahead. We stand following than them, we are praying for them, and we will intend to maintain them however we can during this dark epoch.”

Both Jill and Derick had attended parts of the proceedings for Josh, who yet to be apologized for inappropriately upsetting children, including Jill, taking into account he was a teenagers.

Amy Duggar King, a niece of Michelle and Jim Bob, who appeared almost speaking their shows, sent hero worship to those in the courtroom and to the victims.

“May the juror’s [sic] and Judge Brooks intention healing / counseling from every one that was exposed to them. May the children facilitate going on taking into account definite Godly men as father figures who will lead and guard them. May the people who were later in disbelief have their eyes opened for the first time,” she tweeted. “May the daughters who were abused setting validated. You are in fact beautiful and worthy of honoring. May there be intense counseling / healing. May there be depth for every those on the go upon how to have an effect on accept.”

She terrify in front, “Thank you Jesus. Justice has been served.”

Ben Seewald, the husband of Josh’s sister Jessa, who’s in addition to identified herself as one of his victims, posted a nod from the couple upon social media.

“From the moment we learned of this act adjoining Josh we have prayed that God would cause the response to be made known, no protest what it was, and that the facts would be followed wherever they led,” they wrote. “We are grieved far ahead than words greater than the children exploited and abused in child sexual abuse material, and we are thankful for our justice system in its punishment of such evils. Our hearts crack for Josh’s inherited and we ask your continued prayers for them in the unfathomable grief and neutral sensitive they are surviving.”

On Friday afternoon, Josh’s sister Jigger Duggar Viola commented.

“We are thus thankful to God for exposing Josh’s activities and to a genuine system in force to protecting the saintly and punishing the guilty in this warfare,” she wrote in portion. “We are grateful for justice. We are praying for calculation justice, vindication, auspices, and healing for every those who have been wounded.”