Two of Josh Duggar's sex-abuse victims- sisters Jill Dillard and Jessa Seewald-- are set to air their stories tonight in the second part of an exclusive interview with Megyn Kelly on Fox's The Kelly File .
The interview, which was previously recorded, will air tonight on Fox at 9 p.m. ET.
Jessa Seewald is defending her brother Josh, 27, who inappropriately touched four of his sisters and a family friend during his teen years.
"I do want to speak up in his defense against people who are calling him a child molester or pedophile or a rapist, some people are saying," Jessa Seewald told Kelly, according to Fox News. "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."
During the first interview, which aired on June 3, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, the Christian conservative reality-TV stars of 19 Kids and Counting, talked about how son Josh Duggar approached them and told them that he had "improperly touched" some of their daughters. Josh was 14 at the time.
"We were shocked, we were devastated,"Michelle Duggar told Kelly in the first interview. "As parents we felt, we're failures. We tried to raise our kids to do what's right--to know what's right. And yet one of our children made really bad choices." The pair were interviewed at their home in
The TLC network has pulled the show's reruns from its schedule but has not decided whether to cancel the series entirely. Meanwhile, advertisers, including General Mills, Payless Shoes and Choice Hotels, have cut ties with the family of the popular show.
In the aftermath of the first interview, folks have come out for and against the family.
On Twitter, viewers slammed the Duggars for defending their actions as parents. And also took shots at Kelly for how she conducted the interview.
Montel Williams tweeted, "What the hell is the point of interviewing ANYONE if you aren't asking questions that matter? Not asking #Duggars tough questions=stupid.
Piers Morgan agreed.
Sarah Palin posted a diatribe on her Facebook page on June 4 defending the Duggar family and attacking Girls star Lena Dunham.
"Hey Lena, why not laugh off everyone's sexual 'experiments' as you haughtily enjoy rewards for your own perversion? You pedophile you," Palin wrote. She was referring to when Dunham came under fire for a passage in her memoir, Not That Kind of Girl, where the actress said that she would at the age 7 that she would bribe her little sister with candy for kisses and looks at her genitals.
Photos: The Duggar Family
Contributing: Maria Puente, USA TODAY and Associated Press
