Jill (Duggar) Dillard is opening up about the negative media attention surrounding her family amid Josh Duggar's recent infidelity scandal. In a Monday blog post on the Dillard family website, the 24-year-old mother of one referenced her family's controversy while giving her fans an update on her and husband Derick Dillard's long-term mission trip to Central America.
"August has been a busy month for us and as so many of you know it has ended on a sad note for my extended family," Jill wrote. "Please do pray for our family. We are so thankful for God's grace during difficult days."
Jill is the second of Josh's siblings to speak out about the scandal. Jessa (Duggar) Seewald has been sharing links to a biblical sermon titled "Passions That Prevent Adultery." The expecting mother also tweeted a link to her father-in-law Michael Seewald's blog post that addressed Josh's recent scandal and called the former lobbyist a "pretender" and a "hypocrite" when it comes to representing his Christian faith.
"Go to https://seewalds.com and read the post on the Ashley Madison scandal," Jessa tweeted, along with the link to Seewald's blog post titled "Grief, Shame, and Taking the Lord's Name in Vain."
Josh has admitted to being unfaithful to his wife Anna while she was pregnant with the couple's fourth child. As previously reported by HNGN, Josh had two accounts on the cheating website and paid close to $1,000 for extramarital affairs.
"Though I have never gotten to know Josh very well, I have great respect for his sorrowing parents and immense sympathy for his dear wife, Anna, and their four children," Michael Seewald wrote. "It distresses me to say that Josh Duggar's greatest sin is a byproduct of the sum total of his secretly sinful lifestyle. That is, that by his hypocrisy, he blasphemed the name of God. He claimed to be a Christian, but by his deeds he has suggested otherwise. With the name of God on his lips he lived a covert and extensive lifestyle of evil."
Last week, the Duggar family released a statement, revealing that Josh has decided to check "himself into a long-term treatment center."
