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Amy King has a message for Anna Duggar: “I really feel for you.”
On Might 17, 5 months after Amy’s cousin, Josh Duggar, was discovered responsible of receiving and processing youngster porn, Amy penned an open letter to Anna on Instagram saying she is “surrounded by the fallacious sort of assist.”
“You’ve been taught because you have been a toddler that marriage is eternally and also you prayed for God to ship you a companion. You’ve constructed a life and a household with him,” she wrote within the caption of a photograph of herself and Anna hugging at Anna’s wedding ceremony. “You didn’t select any of this, and your children definitely didn’t both. I’m not coming after you with some kind of robust love factor. That is what’s merely on my coronary heart and I can’t assist however to specific it.”
She continued, “I cried as I learn the letter your personal father wrote in assist of your husband this week. It’s no marvel you’re struggling to know what to do to guard your personal children… you’ve clearly by no means had an instance there. That’s terrible and I’m so sorry for that.”
Amy went on to elucidate how her mother “confirmed me tips on how to get up and converse up” and urged that there was “no disgrace in divorcing Josh.”
“Sometime your children might be sufficiently old to know what sort of man their father actually is. You possibly can’t defend them from the reality for eternally!” Amy continued. “I’m saying all of this publicly in order that after they do develop up, they may also know that that they had relations shouting from the rooftops that they have been price defending all alongside. Your youngsters look as much as you a lot… Please be the position mannequin they want of their life. Dillon and I are greater than prepared that will help you.”
Amy shared that Josh has “chosen how historical past will bear in mind him” and stated that “as a Mama, your intuition to guard your children at all times must be stronger than your concern.”
“The one individuals you’d upset by leaving are those prepared to sacrifice you and your youngsters’s security to guard Josh and his secrets and techniques,” Amy concluded, signing off as “a Mama who gained’t flip a blind eye.”
Amy’s message for Anna comes eight days earlier than his sentencing.