In Touch magazine reports on the lies the Duggars told during their interview with Megyn Kelly.

You can read the entire article here, but let me offer a few of the highlights.

On cooperating with the authorities:

One of the most glaring omissions by the family concerns their statements about the 2006 Springdale Police Department investigation. The Duggars gave the viewing audience the impression that they fully cooperated, saying, “We trusted them, we trusted the police department.” But the Springdale police report, obtained by In Touch through FOIA, reveals that Jim Bob refused to produce Josh for a police-requested interview and stopped cooperating with the probe.

On not being "mandatory reporters": 

Not so. While they are not mandatory reporters, the law does not allow them to do what they think is best for their child in this situation, multiple legal experts tell In Touch. 

By not reporting the at-least SEVEN instances of abuse on at least THREE occasions during a period of more than a year, they could have faced felony charges for child endangerment, with a six-year prison term.

On the idea that the Springdale police were bribed into releasing the police report: 

The records were obtained through Arkansas' Freedom of Information Act, which is one of the most liberal open records laws in the country, according to the state’s attorney general.

On the never mentioned HHS investigation:  

The Duggars did not address the fact that they were investigated by the Department of Human Services after the 2006 police probe was terminated due to the statute of limitations. They have not said what the results of the DHS investigation were.

On Jim Bob's assertion that he took his son to the police station and only randomly ended up talking with a police officer that he knew slightly:  

Jim Bob made it clear that he took Josh to talk to the police and randomly happened to end up with Trooper Jim Hutchens. (Hutchens is now serving a 56-year-prison term on child pornography charges, as reported exclusively by In Touch magazine.) 

“We didn’t know anything about this guy except he was an officer there for the headquarters,” Jim Bob said in Wednesday’s interview. 

But Hutchens was interviewed from prison by a representative from a local law firm hired by In Touch and contradicts Jim Bob’s story. He said he knew Jim Bob well from his job and had even taught a couple of classes to car dealerships with him.

Hutchens also claimed that Jim Bob called him directly to talk to Josh, and that there was nothing random about it.

I don't think any of us are surprised that the Duggars lied during their interview, but it interesting that they lied about things that are so easily demonstrated to be false.

However their defensiveness over their son's actions, and their pathetic response, are one thing, the fact that Jessa, one of his victims, said this is another: 

"I do want to speak up in his defense against people who are calling him a child molester or a pedophile or a rapist, some people are saying,” Jessa told Kelly. “I’m like, ‘That is so overboard and a lie really.’ I mean people get mad at me for saying that, but I can say this because I was one of the victims.” 

"I can say this (That Josh is not a child molester) because I was one of the victims."

Just allow that to roll around in your mind a little bit.

THAT is what the Duggars did to their family.

They made the victims feel guilty for being victims. Victims who now feel it is their duty to defend a person who took advantage of them while they slept, and who undoubtedly did it far more times than have been reported so far.