Jana Duggar’s cousinAmy Duggar Kinghas come to her defense following the news that the19 Kids and Countingalum was charged withendangering the welfare of a child.
Amy showed support for Jana, 31, via her Instagram Story on Saturday, writing, “I will call out what is right and I will call out what is wrong. This couldn’t have been intentional.”
“I bet you were exhausted, stressed and just emotionally worn out,” she added. “Watching multiple kids is hard! Bc there’s so many of them and you only have two eyes!! It’s a very sad situation going on and my heart goes out to @janamduggar love you.”
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Amy, 34, also said in her message that “the child was ok and found,” though she didn’t provide additional details on the situation.
Jana is scheduled to appear in court for a bench trial on Jan. 10, 2022. Her attorney did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
The news of Jana’s child endangerment charge comes one day after her brotherJosh Duggarwasconvictedof receiving and possessing child sexual abuse material.
Josh, 33, faces up to 20 years of imprisonment and up to $250,000 in fines for each conviction — though, because possession is a lesser included offense, he will technically only be sentenced for the receipt crime.
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Josh had been on trial in federal court in Fayetteville, Arkansas, since last week with his wife Anna and some family memberswatching daily from the front row. Dad Jim Bob and others attended Thursday to hear the verdict.
The guilty verdict comes about two years after Homeland Security agentsfirst searched Duggar’s Wholesale Motorcars in 2019, seizing two personal devices and a work desktop that became key to the case.
Joshwas subsequently indictedearlier this year on both of his charges, with prosecutors at his trial showing evidence that he had devised an elaborate hidden system on his work computer with which to view the child pornography over three days in May 2019.
Josh’s arrest was only the latest in a series of personal scandals that rocked the Duggar family: The reality show that first made them all famouswas canceled in 2015after a 2006 police report was released revealing he had been investigated for molesting the four younger girls when he was a boy and teenager.
Later in 2015,Josh also admittedto having a pornography addiction and being “unfaithful” in his marriage.
A spinoff of19 Kids and Countingthat followed the Duggar siblings, calledCounting On,was canceled after Josh’s arreston the child pornography charges.
source: people.com
