After learning their eldest son had touched four of his sisters inappropriately as they slept, the Duggars also started locking bedrooms to prevent future incidents, the sisters revealed in a Fox News interview set to air Friday night.
Jessa Seewald and Jill Dillard.
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Jessa Seewald and Jill Dillard say they were scared and angry when they were told that their brother, Josh Duggar, had inappropriately touched them in bed as children, but in an upcoming interview with Fox News, are chalking the incident up to "a young boy in puberty and a little too curious about girls."
The sisters also reveal in the segment, which is set to air Friday night, that their parents started locking their bedroom doors at night after Josh Duggar returned home from counseling.
The segment is the second in a two-part interview Fox News' Megyn Kelly did with the Duggar family after In Touch magazine published police records of Josh Duggar being investigated for molestation as a teenager in Arkansas.
During an interview that aired Wednesday, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar confirmed that Josh told had them that he inappropriately touched four of his sisters when he was 14, calling it "one of the most darkest times" for the family.
Like his parents, Josh Duggar's two sisters are rallying to his defense, calling accusations of him being a "molester" or "pedophile" a overreaction and false.
"I'm like, that is so overboard and a lie really," Seewald told Megyn Kelly according to a transcript of the segment released Friday. "People get mad at me for saying that, but I can say this because I was one of the victims."
"He was a boy, a young boy in puberty and a little too curious about girls. And that got him into some trouble," she added. "And he made some bad choices, but really, the extent of it was mild, inappropriate touching, on fully clothed victims, most of it while girls were sleeping."
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The family has said that after a third incident was discovered, Josh Duggar was sent to, "a man who mentored young men," in Little Rock, Arkansas, and upon his return, implemented safeguards inside the house. Those included locking the bedroom doors at night, Seewald and Dillard said in the Fox News segment.
The reality show parents, who have 10 boys and nine girls, also stopped allowing their kids from being alone with one another, the sisters said.
"My parents said, "OK, we're not going to do this hide-and-seek thing, where two people go off and hide together,'" Dillard said the interview.
During the interview, the sister said they were scared and angry when they learned about the touching, but said they were unaware of what happened until their parents came to them about Josh's confession.
"It wasn't like we were keeping a secret afraid or something," Dillard said. "We didn't know until Josh explained to my parents what his thought process was, what everything was."
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